Issue #280 / Mar 2024

Another one of those blog posts appeared this month lamenting the end of computer print publishing in America. Whenever this happens, our office experiences a range of responses, from gloating to that odd sensation that comes with being invisible. What about us, dude?

Linux Mint 21.3 MATE and Zorin OS 17 Core

In the news: Gnome 46 Alpha Available for Public Testing; System76 Updates Thelio with New AMD Threadripper CPUs; Two AI Features Introduced in Deepin Linux 23 Beta 2; Nitrux 3.2.1 Released with Plenty of Improvement; Gentoo Linux Goes Binary … Sort Of; Linux Machines with Poorly Secured SSH Servers are Under Attack; Enlightenment 0.26.0 Improved Stability and Features; Fedora Asahi Released for Macs with Apple Silicon; and Manjaro Linux 23.1.0 "Vulcan" Released.

Chronicler Zack Brown reports Opcode life cycles and naming conventions.

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Bruce fires up DistroWatch's search engines to reveal what's trending in Linux distributions.

To stop an attacker, you need to think like an attacker, and to think like an attacker, you need to learn the tools for the trade. HiddenEye helps you simulate a phishing attack.

Forensic experts can't just delete a sketchy file – sometimes the challenge is to see what is in it without triggering an attack. Learn about some of the tools investigators use for analyzing suspicious files.

Shell Genie uses artificial intelligence to convert your questions into commands in the terminal.

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