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You've probably heard me complain about the "AI crawlers" before, but now I actually have some hard numbers I can put up to show their im...

tl;dr: There are 6, it's unfortunately very confusing to the end user. Classic USB from the 1.1, 2.0, to 3.0 generations using USB-A and...

How to modernize C arrays for greater memory safety: a case-study in refactoring the Linux kernel and a look to the future Kees Cook C i...

Or, how to break all the tools that parse the "Fixes:" tag Kees Cook There was a recent discussion about how Linux's "Fixes" tag, which ...

When evaluating networking for a host the focus is typically on latency, throughput or packets per second (pps) to see the maximum load a...

With git, a cryptographic signature on a commit provides strong integrity guarantees of the entire history of that branch going backwards...

In Linux 5.13 ethtool gains an interface for querying IEEE and IETF statistics. This removes the need to parse vendor specific strings in...

Ever since the demise of Google+, many developers have expressed a desire to have a service that would provide a way to create and manage...

ARM traditionally uses compressed kernels. This is done for two major reasons: It saves space on the flash memory or other storage media...

What's a race anyways? Most of the readers, for sure, do know what a race condition is. Let me however include short description just fo...