News - Results from #6030

: Written by: J D; Category: News; Published: 25 September 2018; Hits: 491

News briefs for September 25, 2018.

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Whitewater Foundry[1]^{recently launched WLinux, a Linux distribution optimized for use on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Because the distro is created specifically for WSL, it has "sane}

: Written by: J D; Category: News; Published: 25 September 2018; Hits: 382

What was already setting up to be one of the biggest, most consequential weeks of Trump’s presidency—as the commander-in-chief, in New York, chaired a meeting of the United Nations and, in Washington, the city braced for a showdown...

: Written by: J D; Category: News; Published: 25 September 2018; Hits: 418

A CMS-powered website has all the ingredients for an IT security nightmare: it is publicly accessible, it’s running on powerful machines with great connectivity and the underlying system is used countless times around the...

: Written by: J D; Category: News; Published: 24 September 2018; Hits: 929

Back in May, Search Engine Watch asked me to write a piece about alternatives to Google ^[1]. This research was enlightening. It gave me another perspective on the search industry across the...

: Written by: J D; Category: News; Published: 24 September 2018; Hits: 445

Recently we added two new cheat sheets to our growing cheat sheet collection:...

Learn the i3 Linux window manager shortcuts

: Written by: J D; Category: News; Published: 24 September 2018; Hits: 333

Enjoy the versatility of a tablet-laptop hybrid with this online sweepstakes!

ZDNet will be rewarding one lucky winner a Microsoft Surface Pro Bundle. The prize includes a Microsoft Surface Pro, Surface stylus, Surface...

: Written by: J D; Category: News; Published: 24 September 2018; Hits: 744

News briefs September 24, 2018.

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Yubico announced the launch of the YubiKey 5 series ^[1] this morning, which are the first multi-protocol security keys to support FIDO2/WebAuthn and allow you to replace "weak password-based authentication

: Written by: J D; Category: News; Published: 24 September 2018; Hits: 484

By now it's hopefully been drilled into you to enable two-factor authentication ^[1] on your online accounts, giving you more protection than a password alone. And while the most ubiquitous second factor is a numeric code...

: Written by: J D; Category: News; Published: 23 September 2018; Hits: 559

It's now been about 10 months since I replaced the Surface Pro 4 with a Google Pixelbook ^[1] as my primary home/office computer. With the recent release of Chrome version 69 ^[2] with Linux...

Synaptic Web News

WLinux Distro for Windows Subsystem for Linux Now Available, openSUSE Call for Hosts, New Firefox Bug, Firefox Collecting Telemetry Data and Creative Commons Releases Significant CC Search Update

Even If Rod Rosenstein Stays, the Mueller Investigation Status Quo Won't Last

Red alert, shields up - The work of the Joomla Security Team

Baidu: Can the search giant hold firm in Chinaâ€™s increasingly competitive mobile market?

Python libraries for data science, Linux firewalls, Raspberry Pi NAS, openmediavault, Syncthing, microservices, and more

Enter to win* a fully-equipped hybrid for pros!

YubiKey 5 Series Launched, Google Chrome's Recent Questionable Privacy Practice, PlayOnLinux Alpha Version 5 Released, Android Turns Ten, and Fedora 29 Atomic and Cloud Test Day

The Series 5 YubiKey Will Help Kill the Password

Google Pixelbook Chrome OS tablet, aka Nocturne, likely coming in October