The Twenty-Ninth International Obfuscated C Code Contest – or IOCCC for short – is back again with the results of the 2025 competition. This year, one of the entrants has a unique new trick up their ...

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Buffer overflow vulnerabilities have driven remote code execution for decades and keep appearing in critical network ...

Security tooling is not written in a single language. Python powers most automation. C sits at the exploit layer. PowerShell ...

As I've grown more comfortable with Linux, I've discovered alternative methods of installing apps. Sometimes, they're better ...

Phoronix Linux 7.2's merge window closed out a cleanup campaign on Friday that most kernel developers had stopped expecting to see end: the complete removal of strncpy(), a C string-copy function that ...

The PorteuX project has officially released PorteuX 2.6, bringing a new round of updates to the lightweight Slackware-based ...

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most ...

Artificial intelligence is rewriting the world and simultaneously inventing a whole new language to describe how it’s doing it. Sit in on any product meeting, pitch, or panel these days, and you’ll ...

ispc compiles a C-based SPMD programming language to run on the SIMD units of CPUs and GPUs; it frequently provides a 3x or more speedup on architectures with 4-wide vector SSE units and 5x-6x on ...

An educational C-like toy programming language that compiles to x64 binary. The compiler is a self-contained Python program that weighs about 1000 LoC. It's part of an online tutorial on compilers and ...

There’s nobody quite like Linus Torvalds to reframe the whole debate around AI assisted coding. The creator of the Linux kernel and ...