One of the first things new Linux users hear is, "Linux doesn't need antivirus." Some people even go a step further and claim that Linux cannot get viruses at all. There is some truth behind those ...

Tom Fenton tackles seven free and open-source AI tools bring local chat, coding, voice, design and research capabilities to personal computers and self-hosted environments.

Running low on hard disk space or just want to get rid of junk files? The free BleachBit utility can easily handle that ...

Perplexity's open-source Numbat watches AI coding agents on endpoints, adding detection and opt-in blocking after OpenAI's ...

The Gold linker is no longer included in the primary source distribution and is instead provided separately. Gold has seen ...

It started as China vs. the US, but it's become a face-off between two fundamentally different ways of building LLMs. And the ...

Threat actors are now exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting ServiceNow AI Platform, according to Defused Cyber. In a post shared on X, the threat intelligence firm said it's ...

The file system on virtually every USB drive and SD card on the planet just got a significant architectural upgrade. On June 20, 2026, the exFAT pull request for Linux 7.2 — submitted by maintainer ...

A new ransomware operation named ‘Prinz Eugen’ prioritizes recently modified files for encryption and leaves no ransom note on the system. An investigation from Threatdown, the former corporate ...

Meta on Monday said it detected and blocked spear-phishing attempts linked to Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group. In addition, the tech giant said it's filing a federal court contempt order against the ...

Over the decades, there has been no shortage of sites using clever techniques to covertly track visitors’ browsing histories, device fingerprints, and keystrokes and mouse movements in real time. Even ...

Attackers increasingly target the packages, editor extensions, and AI tool configs on developer machines and not just production systems. Perplexity has open-sourced an internal tool it uses to ...