Everything I do on Linux happens on a machine running Windows.

WSL gives Windows users an entire Linux system at the command line, with less overhead than a VM. The lion’s share of the ...

I stopped keeping a WSL tab open just to run grep.

Kali Linux 2026.2, the second release of the year, is now available for download, featuring 9 new tools and numerous Kali NetHunter improvements. The Kali Linux distro is designed for cybersecurity ...

Microsoft has shot down the idea that WSL 3 is on the way. The articles that have been calling it WSL 3 mixed up a different feature, WSL Containers, which the company showed at Build 2026 and is now ...

A flaw in the Linux kernel's traffic-control subsystem can let a local unprivileged user gain root on affected systems. The exploit never touches the file on disk. It poisons the cached copy of a ...

OpenAI's Codex CLI contains an unpatched bug that is silently writing data to developers' local SSDs at a rate of roughly 640 terabytes per year — more than the entire rated lifetime endurance of a ...

Attackers took over more than 400 packages in the Arch User Repository (AUR) this week and rewrote their build scripts to install a credential stealer on any machine that built them. The malware is a ...

Microsoft has announced Coreutils, a new Windows 11 feature that allows developers to run many popular Linux command line utilities natively on Windows from a single binary. Revealed at this week’s ...

Steve Ballmer’s darkest fear has come to pass: Linux has worked itself into the deepest innards of Microsoft Windows itself. At the company’s annual Build developer conference this week, Microsoft ...

Microsoft has released Coreutils for Windows, a set of UNIX-style command-line utilities. Installing Coreutils for Windows allows you to use commands such as grep in Command Prompt (CMD) and ...

Microsoft announces a desktop environment for software development with artificial intelligence. After the brief preview of the upcoming Surface Laptop Ultra at Computex already caused a stir, ...