The popular open world zombie sandbox survival game Unturned just had the source code officially released. Unturned originally released on Steam back in 2017, and it remains very active with peak player counts each day of over 10,000 people which is impressive for an older indie game like this. Being free to play and sticking…
You log in to a slow server, run uptime or top , and see three numbers next to “load average”. They look like a verdict on how busy the machine is, but a value of 2.5 means very different things on a laptop with two cores and a server with thirty-two. Read in isolation, the…
It was discovered that Python incorrectly normalized paths in the tarfilemodule. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass pathrestrictions. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04LTS. (CVE-2025-13462) It was discovered that Python’s HTMLParser incorrectly handled certainmalformed HTML input. An attacker could possibly use this issue to causePython to crash, resulting…
If you’ve ever pasted a Bitly link into your marketing email and then checked your stats at the end of the month, only to find the analytics you actually wanted are locked behind a $10/month or $29/month plan, you’ve already felt the frustration that Shlink was built to solve. Shlink is a self-hosted, open-source URL…
We are used to hearing about Copilot eating storage space on Windows machines, showing up in applications it has no business in, and generally being a nuisance for anyone who prefers an AI-free computer. Now, we have a Windows log file that has been silently eating up space on people’s storage drives, with a Microsoft…
Purism has announced its first foray into tablet computing with the Librem 11 tablet. The 11-inch slate uses the company’s secure, privacy-focused PureBoot technology as standard, and ships with the their Debian-based PureOS by default. The Purism Librem 11 specs also look decent enough, offering a balance of performance and power efficiency (important in portable devices):…
The Linux kernel’s AF_ALG interface was deprecated in Linux 7.2. This interface for letting user-space programs interact directly with the Linux kernel crypto API has proven to be a “massive attack surface” due to a variety of security concerns. With its deprecation in Linux 7.2, some AF_ALG features are already removed and for Linux 7.3…
DistroWatch.com: CalamaroOS Last Update: 2026-06-05 18:36 UTC CalamaroOS is a Gentoo-based Linux distribution for the desktop, using either KDE Plasma or Xfce desktop environment. It features the Calamares system installer, out-of-the-box support for Flatpak packages, support for BTRFS, XFS and F2FS filesystems, and the systemd software suite for system and service management. The project’s goal…
TUXEDO Computers has announced a major change for its in-house Linux distribution, TUXEDO OS, revealing that Ubuntu will no longer serve as its foundation. Instead, future versions of the distro will be based on Debian Testing. According to the company, the decision arrives after several months of reduced update cadence, especially around KDE Plasma updates….
Every few months (or years, depending upon how old you are), there is a new “anti-smartphone” device that comes with a physical keyboard and a tiny screen and focuses on doing one thing well. Freewrite did it for writers. PicoCalc did it for tinkerers. Now Talisman Design, an independent hardware studio out of Phoenix, Arizona,…
