You're in a busy office or share your house or apartment with others. You log into your Linux PC as the root user because you have a ton of admin tasks to do. In the middle of doing whatever it is you ...

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Ubuntu's new "architecture variants" let you download packages optimized for x86-64-v2 or v3 chips, etc. This brings a slight (like 1%) performance boost for some apps. Ubuntu 25.10 includes an early ...

Explore this week’s top cyber stories: stealthy virtual machine attacks, AI side-channel leaks, spyware on Samsung phones, ...

It feels like every time Apple unveils its latest iPhone, the world pauses. The new iPhone 17 is no different, arriving with all the fanfare and polished marketing we've come to expect. While it may ...

On Linux, the umask defines how new files and directories inherit access rights. Linux uses your current umask value to ...

If your new phone no longer supports SIM cards, or you don't want to use them anymore, you can convert to eSIM instead. I started my career with CNET all the way back in 2005, when the (original) ...

Faith writes guides, how-tos, and roundups on the latest Android games and apps for Android Police. You'll find her writing about the newest free-to-play game to hit Android or discussing her paranoia ...

Threat actors exploited a recently patched remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2025-20352) in Cisco networking devices to deploy a rootkit and target unprotected Linux systems. The security issue ...

For nearly a decade, every time I’ve got my hands on a OnePlus phone, I’ve always asked the questions: “What am I missing?” After all, we’re dealing with a phone that fundamentally checks the box for ...

"I think people don’t realize how much they miss talking," Roberts toldThe New York Times in an interview published Wednesday, Oct. 25. The actress and husband Danny Moder share 20-year-old twins ...