FreeRDP 3.31 fixes 22 security holes and quiets idle CPU
Twenty-two advisories in one drop is not a maintenance release. It is the FreeRDP project pulling the fire alarm on its own code before someone else does it for them. FreeRDP is…
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GitHub handed $500K to 50 open source maintainers, and they shipped
I keep coming back to the same conversation when I talk to people who run open source projects. They get more pull requests from strangers than they used to. The issues look…
A quiet Wireshark update deserves your Tuesday afternoon
A quiet Wireshark update deserves your Tuesday afternoon. I used to skip Wireshark point releases. That habit died somewhere around version 3.6, when a packet capture ate six hours of my afternoon…
windows 11 quietly drops picture password setup in july update
Windows 11 is about to ship a small change with outsized consequences for anyone who relies on picture passwords. The July 2026 cumulative security update does not strip the feature off machines…
Debian 13 closed an 18 year old bug, verify your reboot
A kernel update landed for Debian 13 on August 6, 2026, and most of the coverage focused on the wrong thing. The interesting story is not the named vulnerabilities. It is the…
A Debian 13 kernel update with 68 CVEs: what to actually patch
A Debian 13 Trixie kernel update landed recently with sixty-eight CVEs in the changelog. I have been on the receiving end of those changelogs for about a decade, and my first instinct…
openvpn 2.7.6 patches windows service bug and mbedtls certificate flaw
OpenVPN 2.7.6 dropped this week and I almost skipped reading the changelog. Two CVEs, a kernel-mode data channel sync bug, three defaults that shifted under your config, and a handful of low-level…
AI Can Identify You Online—Even With a Fake Name
AI can identify you online, even with a fake name A study published earlier this year showed that commercial AI chatbots can figure out who you are from a small handful of…
Secure Your OpenClaw: Essential Hardening Guide
I have been running OpenClaw (an open-source AI agent framework for building autonomous assistants that can use tools, browse the web, write code, and chain together multi-step tasks) in production for about…