Facebook said that the continuous logging of call logs and SMS history was "a part of an opt-in feature for people using Messenger or Facebook Lite on Android". Facebook starts its continuous data scooping after the user agrees to enable the contacts sharing…

Twenty years ago, Christine Peterson coined the phrase Open Source. But even by then, what we know now as the open source community was already in full swing, thanks to the growing popularity of Linux, PHP, Apache and many other freely-distributed programs.…

Intel has announced it is 'discontinuing' the 'Intel Graphics Update Tool for Linux'. The tool (which was known as "Intel Graphics Installer for Linux"

Users can now switch off their Wi-Fi devices

A decade after the last SSL/TLS web encryption standard was released, the 28th draft of the TLS 1.3 standard has been approved by the IETF to be the next major protocol for internet security.

The GIMP 2.10 release edges closer as the popular open-source image editor launches a new release candidate for photo manipulation fans to download.

Monitor what your Internet of Things devices are doing with the syslog-ng enhanced logging daemon.

You thought this was over? You thought wrong, laughs Larry

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Researchers have discovered a new side-channel attack method called "BranchScope" that can be launched against devices with Intel processors.

In light of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, people have been deleting Facebook. However, Mozilla's new Facebook Container extension for Firefox offers an alternative.

The distro uses LXDE desktop and Linux kernel 4.14.30 LTS

Learn how to combine Github webhooks with Python to build services that use continuous deployment to run your most up to date code.

Been getting a lot of requests to take a look at NixOS. I don't really know anything about NixOS so I'm going to run through the install and see what Nix is all about.

https://nixos.org/

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A recently discovered malware family written using the Golang (Go) programming language is targeting Linux servers and uses a different binary for each attack, Talos warns.