I've been using Ubuntu for decades. Whether you're new to the OS or returning to it after a while, these are the essential apps, hidden settings, and useful tweaks you need to know about.

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The actively exploited flaw builds on Dirty Pipe and Copy Fail techniques to overwrite page cache and gain full system ...

Dirty Frag, a new local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting major Linux distributions, may already be exploited in ...

Dirty Frag, a critical Linux kernel zero-day vulnerability with no patch and giving hackers root, has gone public after an ...

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OX Security confirmed arbitrary command execution on six live platforms and estimates 200,000 MCP servers are exposed. Here's ...

The critical "Copy Fail" bug (CVE-2026-31431) affects all Linux kernels since 2017, allowing unprivileged local users to gain ...

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