U.S. government warns of severe CopyFail bug affecting major versions of Linux

U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA says the CopyFail bug is being actively used in hacking campaigns, and poses a major risk to servers and datacenters that rely on Linux.

"Copy Fail" is a rare Linux bug that can turn an unprivileged user into a root admin in seconds

Copy Fail could represent a significant security risk in the making. The vulnerability was discovered by researchers at ...
Hackaday

This Week In Security: Another Linux Exploit, Ubuntu Knocked Offline, Finals Interrupted, And Backdoored Tools

After the CopyFail vulnerability gave root access from any user on almost all distributions last week, this week we’ve got DirtyFrag. This chains the vulnerability in CopyFail (xfrm-ESP) and ...

200,000 MCP servers expose a command execution flaw that Anthropic calls a feature

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

Linux: Buying Advice, Tips, and News

I'm a Linux geek and have been using Ubuntu since its original release in 2004. These are the essential settings, apps, and tweaks I recommend to every beginner.
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AnduinOS is a custom Ubuntu-based Linux distribution that offers a familiar and easy-to-use experience for anyone moving to Linux.

To edit the build parameters, modify the ./src/args.sh file. That's it. The built file will be an ISO file in the ./src/dist directory. Simply mount the built ISO file to an virtual machine, and you ...
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Fail Fast, Win Big: Rethinking the Drafting Strategy in Speculative Decoding via Diffusion LLMs

This repository contains the source code implementation of the arXiv paper Fail Fast, Win Big: Rethinking the Drafting Strategy in Speculative Decoding via Diffusion LLMs. @article{pan2025failfast, ...