'A single 732-byte Python script can be used to obtain root on essentially all Linux distributions shipped since 2017': Time to update your kernel

‘A single 732-byte Python script can be used to obtain root on essentially all Linux distributions shipped since 2017’: Time to update your kernel

Gaming on Linux has never been better—but that doesn’t mean your distros are free from security threats. Case in point is a severe vulnerability nicknamed ‘Copy Fail,’ which allows a local user to dig into the guts of the OS and give themselves root privileges merely by writing four bytes of controlled data into the…

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Apple Mac Studio M4 Max review

The feeling when you take a piece of new hardware out of the box is unsurpassed in the field of human experience. Whether it’s a motherboard or a USB SSD or a goddamn printer, unboxing is great fun. People even make videos about it. And however you feel about Apple, you have to admit that…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Saturday, April 19

It’s Saturday, so why not celebrate the start of the weekend with a nice easy Wordle win? Today’s answer is here whenever you want to click on it, whether that’s before you’ve touched the first row or you’re one line away from the bottom of the board. As always, we’ve got a clue for the…

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