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Memorizing These 7 Linux Command-Line Options Will Turn You Into a Pro

The --version (-V) option goes hand-in-hand with --help because it helps you find out about the program, and it’s usually supported where --help is. Traditionally, the --version option prints the ...
IEEE

BridgeRouter: Automated Capability Upgrading of Out-Of-Bounds Write Vulnerabilities to Arbitrary Memory Write Primitives in the Linux Kernel

Abstract: Memory corruption vulnerabilities pose a significant threat to the Linux kernel, with out-of-bounds (OOB) vulnerabilities receiving particular attention due to their prevalence. The existing ...
E&E

How the shutdown is roiling climate programs at 6 agencies

The Trump administration had tried to eviscerate climate offices before the shutdown. Now, the cuts are deeper. The government shutdown has sent uneven shock waves through Washington. Many ...
Wired

The Quest to Find the Longest-Running Simple Computer Program

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...
Futurism

Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code

With so many wild predictions flying around about the future AI, it’s important to occasionally take a step back and check in on what came true — and what hasn’t come to pass. Exactly six months ago, ...
The New York Times

College football program valuations: Ranking every Power 4 team by how much they’d sell for

Editor’s note: This article is part of our Rankings & Tiers series, an evaluation across sport about the key players, front offices, teams, franchises and much more. How much would it take to buy your ...
PC Gamer

Nvidia's research boss claims the company's Chinese AI researchers are now writing programs for Huawei instead and is blaming the US chip exports

Hardware Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: 'At the moment we are 100% out of China... it's important to be mindful that what harms China could oftentimes also harm America' Hardware Nvidia claims H20 chips do ...
InfoWorld

Static analysis proposed to ‘rehabilitate’ shell programs

Semantics-driven static analysis could be used to improve the safety, correctness, and performance of Unix, Linux, and macOS shell scripts, researchers say. Semantics-driven static analysis is being ...