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Microsoft Defender 'RoguePlanet' zero-day grants SYSTEM privileges

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The Ultimate Guide to Distrohopping: How to Hop Safely Without Breaking Your System

A complete step-by-step developer's guide to distrohopping. Learn how to manage backups, automate package installs, use Ventoy, handle partitions, and leverage NixOS reproducibility. Distrohopping—the act of jumping from one Linux distribution to another—is a rite of passage for many Linux users. It is exciting to try new package managers, desktop environments, and kernel updates. However, it often comes with a painful cost: lost files, broken configurations (dotfiles), and hours of manual post-

What We Learned Hiring 33 Engineers in Two Weeks

Earlier this year, we needed to hire a cohort of engineers in Seattle, fast. We had a product launching at our marquee conference, Deploy, a hard deadline, and a clear picture of what the work would actually require. What we didn’t want was an interview process designed for a world that no longer exists. So we rebuilt it from scratch and opened a brand-new office in Bellevue for everyone we hired. Here’s what we did, why we did it, and what we heard from the engineers who went through it. The pr

AI misidentification results in wrongful arrest; man seeks justice

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RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon

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A Record-Breaking Patch Tuesday for June 2026

Microsoft today released software updates to plug nearly 200 security holes across its Windows operating systems and supported software, a record number of fixes for the company's monthly Patch Tuesday cycle. Nearly three dozen of those bugs earned Microsoft's most dire "critical" rating, and exploit code for at least three of the weaknesses is now publicly available.

Surprise, pay $1000

Article URL: https://forestwalk.ai/blog/surprise-blacksmith-costs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48468370 Points: 355 # Comments: 196

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