For the longest time, I assumed running LLMs locally needed a decent GPU. That’s what most guides implied, and honestly, that’s how the ecosystem felt not too long ago. But after digging into recent tools and actually trying things out on CPU-only
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Hot on the heels of Copy Fail comes Dirty Frag, another Linux kernel privilege escalation with a working exploit already public. It chains two flaws, neither of which can work alone. Luckily, fixes have arrived for it in the Linux kernel, as
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There is no dearth of terminal emulators for Linux users. Most people stick with the default terminal, while some have their own preferred ones. I like Kitty and I am pretty happy with it. But then I came across a new Rust-based
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Seeing that we are in a time when new Linux exploits seem to be popping up every few weeks, many projects have had to take preventive measures to tackle the growing threat. Red Hat looks like the latest to act on this
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As a gamer, if you have gamed on Linux with hardware that’s seen better days, there’s some work happening in the kernel that’s worth keeping an eye on. Linux kernel developer Peter Zijlstra has posted the second version of a patch series
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Dirty Frag has been the talk of the town (at least in Linux and open source circles) recently. The LPE was inadvertently exposed to the public, catching the Linux project and the various distros off guard. Thankfully, a proper patch is now
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Debian’s release team has made reproducible builds a hard requirement for the Debian 14 “Forky” cycle. Since May 9, the project’s migration software has blocked any package failing a reproducibility check from entering testing. If a package already in testing breaks reproducibility
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Sasha Levin, NVIDIA engineer and co-maintainer of the stable and long-term support kernel trees, has proposed a new patch that adds a mechanism called killswitch to the Linux kernel. It’s pitched as a way for system administrators to disable a vulnerable kernel
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In recent times, Huawei has been China’s best-standing answer to Apple’s monopoly over the personal tech market. Smartphones, laptops, tablets, they do it all and they do it at a level on-par with the best companies currently working. This is not a
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Backing up photos and videos is something most people think about only after losing something they can’t get back. Local storage is still the most secure option, as long as the files are encrypted and access to the storage medium is under
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