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Anthropic boots users, wipes payment info to protect against malware attack
1+ week, 4+ day ago (530+ words) Claude users are being signed out of their accounts to stop a new malware campaign that is draining their AI usage. September 1, 2026, 2:30 pm ET Anthropic has alerted some Claude users to a new infostealing malware that takes control of their…...
This simple antivirus tool is the easiest way to scan your Linux PC for threats - for free
2+ week, 3+ day ago (837+ words) It's long been debated whether Linux needs antivirus protection. I tend to fall on the side of not needing it, but I rarely share files with Windows users. However, on those rare occasions when I have to share files with…...
I built my own secure network in the cloud to access my home PCs remotely - for free
2+ week, 3+ day ago (904+ words) When I'm sitting at my desk connected to my home-office network, I can use any Remote Desktop client (including Microsoft's Windows App) to connect directly to any of those machines, physical or virtual. But when I'm out of the office,…...
How I turned my ancient Windows PC into a Chromebook for free - with FydeOS
2+ week, 4+ day ago (949+ words) Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ChromeOS is the operating system that powers Chromebooks. It's simple, it's useful, and it runs on machines that Windows would cripple. Having ChromeOS for standard PCs would mean that average…...
'Just a hobby, won't be big': Linus Torvalds introduced Linux 35 years ago - and almost called it Freax
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1006+ words) In 1991, Unix was an important but secondary x86 operating system. That year, on Aug. 25, a Finnish graduate student named Linus Benedict Torvalds announced on the Usenet group comp.os.minix that he was working on "a (free) operating system (just a…...
Can MainstreamOS finally make Linux a household name? I tried it to find out
3+ week, 3+ day ago (419+ words) ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET's key takeawaysThere's finally a Linux distro that makes Arch and Hyprland easy.Mainstream OS is everything you need in a desktop.This distro is beautiful, useful, efficient, and…...
The 6 AI-free Linux distros I recommend most - and why they're likely to stay that way
3+ week, 3+ day ago (683+ words) AI is everywhere, and the technology's tendrils continue finding their way into more and more places. Will we soon see AI in shopping carts, waffle makers, heated blankets -- rocks? OK, maybe AI in rocks is a stretch, but you get…...
Want to run a full Linux distro on your Android phone? I found the easiest way
3+ week, 4+ day ago (887+ words) In the name of science and experimentation, I decided to try running a full-blown Linux desktop on an Android tablet. Turns out it's not only possible but also easy -- thanks to an app called UserLAnd. Before I continue, note that…...
I used OpenFactory to build my own Linux distro overnight - this AI tool is going to be big
4+ week, 1+ day ago (879+ words) Recently, a developer, Erik Ziegenbald, reached out to me to test his new service, called OpenFactory. I was skeptical at first, because I've seen such services make lofty promises they didn't deliver on. Still, I offered to give it a…...