macOS 26 came out recently. One of the things that’s different about it is that the built-in applications all have loads of ...

Docker permission denied error on Linux can disrupt your workflow. In this guide, we explain its causes and quick fixes.

December 2025 was a brutal reality check for security teams. While most were winding down for the holidays, threat actors weaponized a tectonic shift in the landscape, headlined by the... The post Top ...

If you have any experience with the Linux command line, you’ve probably used a pipe to solve tasks by combining simple programs. It’s the UNIX way. A pipe connects one program’s output stream to ...

Of all the Linux commands, rm is notorious. It's easy to completely wipe out your system with one mislaid rm command as root. I knew not to, but I ran that command on purpose anyway. Here's why.

The decades-old "finger" command is making a comeback,, with threat actors using the protocol to retrieve remote commands to execute on Windows devices. In the past, people used the finger command to ...

With an interface as attractive as Windows 10’s, it is easy to forget that the OS comes with a command line interface as well. You might have forgotten about Command Prompt, but Microsoft hasn’t, and ...

The Norwegian author Vigdis Hjorth’s latest novel to be translated into English, “If Only,” follows a decade-long affair between two married writers. By Brian Dillon Brian Dillon is the author, most ...

The sudo command stands for “superuser do” and is one of the most important commands to know in Unix and Linux-based operating systems. (See the most important Linux commands for beginners.) Sudo ...

node-build is a command-line tool that simplifies installation of any Node version from source or precompiled binary on Unix-like systems. Warning node-build mostly does not verify that system ...

On Friday, a lone Microsoft developer rocked the world when he revealed a backdoor had been intentionally planted in xz Utils, an open source data compression utility available on almost all ...

You can use the stat command to view dates and times associated with Linux files, and the date command can do some handy conversions if you’d like to display the current time in the epoch format.