Security researchers have disclosed new "Plug and Pwn" attacks that abuse the Windows Plug and Play feature to trigger Windows into installing vulnerable or insecure vendor software and gain SYSTEM ...

A weekend project turned my neglected 2021 Fire tablet into a Debian workstation using proot, RVNC, and Termux.

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WSL gives Windows users an entire Linux system at the command line, with less overhead than a VM. The lion’s share of the ...

A cloud tenant who rents a single virtual machine can now bring down every other VM on the physical host running it — or take root on the host itself and access every guest on that machine. That is ...

Upgrades to WSL make Linux on Windows more powerful. Linux gets more direct access to GPUs and NPUs. A pure Linux desktop is still best for AI devs. Microsoft takes one more step towards a Linux ...

PowerShell was developed by Microsoft and first introduced in 2006 as version 1.0. At its core, it was designed to address the limitations of the traditional command prompt, providing a more robust ...

From VS Code to Azure's free tier, here are 50 Microsoft tools you can try for free right now, organized by category ahead of Build 2026 on June 2-3.

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In early May, a repository appeared on Hugging Face that disguised itself as an OpenAI model and installed an infostealer on Windows systems. The attackers used typosquatting and distributed the ...