Ars Asks: Share your shell and show us your tricked-out terminals!

Exposure therapy to the bash shell brought me to the tipping point, and I jumped ship to the Macintosh side of the house. It ...

CISA says ‘Copy Fail’ flaw now exploited to root Linux systems

CISA has warned that threat actors have started exploiting the "Copy Fail" Linux security vulnerability in the wild, one day ...
Hackaday

This Week In Security: Another Linux Exploit, Ubuntu Knocked Offline, Finals Interrupted, And Backdoored Tools

After the CopyFail vulnerability gave root access from any user on almost all distributions last week, this week we’ve got DirtyFrag. This chains the vulnerability in CopyFail (xfrm-ESP) and ...
ssir.org

The Curb-Cut Effect

One evening in the early 1970s, Michael Pachovas and a few friends wheeled themselves to a curb in Berkeley, Calif., poured cement into the form of a crude ramp, and rolled off into the night. 1 For ...
The New York Times

Climate and Environment

A White House task force called for speeding up aid and responding to fewer disasters. But some of its ideas would require action by Congress to become reality. By Scott Dance The Bureau of Land ...
OSTechNix

Copy Fail: The 732-Byte Script That Roots Every Major Linux Systems

Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) is a severe logic flaw in the Linux kernel affecting every distribution since 2017. Patch your ...
Investopedia

Understanding Crisis Management: Strategies, Types, and Real-Life Examples

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...