A minimal Linux distro from Microsoft? Anything is possible.

France’s OVHcloud bets on frontier AI as Europe seeks alternatives to US models The company says the cost of training frontier AI models has fallen sharply, but analysts say the bigger challenge may ...

A new Linux kernel bug lets an ordinary, unprivileged user become root. It now hits Android too. Researchers have named it Bad Epoll. The Bad Epoll vulnerability carries the identifier CVE-2026-46242.

NetBSD is a real Unix that can run almost anywhere. Can it run as a desktop?

Eighteen new GNU releases in the last month (as of June 30, 2026): apl-2.0: GNU APL is a free interpreter for the programming language APL. It is an implementation of the ISO stan ...

Buffer overflow vulnerabilities have driven remote code execution for decades and keep appearing in critical network ...

HANDS ON At WWDC this week, Apple introduced container machines, which are persistent virtual machines running Linux, bearing some resemblance to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on Microsoft's ...

Unsurprisingly to many of us, app stores for smart televisions are also trash. Perhaps even more full of trash than other app stores due to the smaller ecosystem and fewer reviewers. Spur analyzed ...

Irene Okpanachi is a Features writer covering Android devices, laptops, portable projectors, VR headsets, software, and AI recorders for Android Police and Talk Android. She has five years' experience ...

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