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A new Linux malware framework linked to Chinese-affiliated actors has been discovered by security researchers at Check Point Research. This highly modular framework, named VoidLink by its developers, ...

Through the looking glass: A half-century-old magnetic tape containing the only known copy of Unix v4 has been found and recovered by the University of Utah's School of Computing. The nine-track 3M ...

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An upcoming Android update will significantly upgrade the Linux Terminal app, enabling it to run full-fledged graphical Linux programs on supported devices. The feature is currently experimental, ...

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