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Jim Salter
Former Technology Reporter
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Jim Salter (@jrssnet) is an author, public speaker, mercenary sysadmin, and father of three—not necessarily in that order. He got his first real taste of open source by running Apache on his very own dedicated FreeBSD 3.1 server back in 1999, and he's been a fierce advocate of FOSS ever since. He's the author of the Sanoid hyperconverged infrastructure project, and co-host of the 2.5 Admins podcast.
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Rad Power’s RadWagon 4: A great e-bike at a surprisingly low price
This sub-$2,000 e-bike is thoughtfully designed and a joy to ride.
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Intel’s Alder Lake big.little CPU design, tested: It’s a barn burner
Intel's power-gulping i9-12900K crushes AMD's Ryzen 9 5950x—even multithreaded.
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The best part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux
WSL is finally easy to install—and offers automatic sound/graphics support.
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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus are down. Here’s what we know [Updated]
The root cause of the worldwide outage appears to be a flubbed BGP route update.
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Apple forgot to sanitize the Phone Number field for lost AirTags
Another bug-bounty boondoggle leads to public disclosure before the bug is fixed.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation will deprecate HTTPS Everywhere plugin
All four major browsers have duplicated HTTPS Everywhere functionality natively.
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Three iOS 0-days revealed by researcher frustrated with Apple’s bug bounty
Public disclosure comes in wake of other grumblings about Apple's bug bounty behavior.
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Examining btrfs, Linux’s perpetually half-finished filesystem
This btrfs filesystem overview highlights some longstanding shortcomings.
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Exchange/Outlook autodiscover bug exposed 100,000+ email passwords
A flaw in the Autodiscover protocol can expose email passwords to third parties.
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Security audit raises severe warnings on Chinese smartphone models
The audit red-flagged Xiaomi and Huawei phones but gave OnePlus a pass.
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Linux Foundation says companies are desperate for open source talent
The 2021 survey shows 97% of hiring managers prioritizing FOSS professionals.
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Nation-state espionage group breaches Alaska Department of Health
Fallout continues from an advanced persistent threat first detected in May 2021.
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Command line wizardry, part two: Variables and loops in Bash
Learn to process thousands of items reliably and repeatably in this installment.
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Security researchers at Wiz discover another major Azure vulnerability
A little-known management service handed unauthenticated attackers root access.
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PHP maintains an enormous lead in server-side programming languages
Despite many infamous quirks, the server-side language seems here to stay.
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Infosec researchers say Apple’s bug-bounty program needs work
Apple allegedly pays less for bugs than its competitors do—and pays more slowly.
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WhatsApp “end-to-end encrypted” messages aren’t that private after all
Millions of WhatsApp messages are reviewed by both AI and human moderators.
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ProtonMail removed “we do not keep any IP logs” from its privacy policy
Swiss courts compelled it to log and disclose a user's IP and browser fingerprint.
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A brief overview of IBM’s new 7 nm Telum mainframe CPU
A typical Telum-powered mainframe offers 256 cores at a base clock of 5+GHz.
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System76’s updated 15-inch Pangolin laptop ships with Ryzen 7 5700U CPU
System76's second Ryzen-powered model is available today with Ubuntu or Pop!_OS.
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Western Digital introduces new non-SMR 20TB HDDs with onboard NAND
These aren't "hybrids"—their NAND components aren't used for user data.
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Coinbase erroneously reported 2FA changes to 125,000 customers
The unexpected 2FA notifications led some customers to panic-sell everything.
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Linux/BSD command line wizardry: Learn to think in sed, awk, and grep
"Do people really write these long, convoluted commands?" In a word: yes.
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Samsung seemingly caught swapping components in its 970 Evo Plus SSDs
The Phoenix controller in Samsung's own product images isn't present on newer drives.
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“Worst cloud vulnerability you can imagine” discovered in Microsoft Azure
30% of Cosmos DB customers were notified—more are likely impacted.
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Need to get root on a Windows box? Plug in a Razer gaming mouse
Razer's automatically downloaded installer exposes a SYSTEM shell to any user.
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Nude hunt: LA phisherman accessed 4,700 iCloud accounts, 620K photos
The attacker seems to have relied on social engineering to hoodwink his victims.
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President Biden to host infosec roundtable with tech giant CEOs
2021 is a great year for the red teams of the world—blue teams, not so much.
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Point-to-point Wi-Fi bridging between buildings—the cheap and easy way
It cost us ~$100 to wirelessly connect two buildings across a small wooded area.
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Facebook’s “Metaverse” gets a bit closer today with Horizon Workrooms
Horizon Workrooms is a major step toward Zuckerberg's vision of a VR "metaverse."
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Intel leaks show next-gen desktop CPUs with hybrid “big.little” design
Leaked specs show performance and efficiency cores in 12th- and 13th-gen CPUs.
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Not-a-Linux distro review: SerenityOS is a Unix-y love letter to the ’90s
Although it's nowhere near ready for prime time, there's a lot to love here.
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The Perl Foundation is fragmenting over Code of Conduct enforcement
"I'm fresh out of ideas with regards to handling toxicity in the Perl community."
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Netflix is adding residential IP addresses to its VPN blocklists
Netflix's new "VPN" block policies can catch innocent users in the crossfire.
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Leaked voting machine BIOS passwords may implicate Q-friendly county clerk
Leaked BIOS passwords led investigators to Tina Peters' office in Mesa County, Colo.
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