Computer archaeology lovers among the audience are in for a rare treat in these challenging times. Remember that Unix v4 tape ...

UNIX version 4 is quite special on account of being the first UNIX to be written in C instead of PDP-11 ASM, but it was also ...

Archivist Al Kossow of Bitsavers, who led the technical recovery, described the process as "easy" as such efforts go. The tape, he explained, had "a pretty ...

Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow ...

Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it ...

The lean SSH server Dropbear is closing a privilege escalation vulnerability with an updated version, among other things.

QEMU 10.2 revises security policies, modernizes the crypto subsystem, and accelerates asynchronous I/O under Linux.

Opinion: From COBOL and C to Linux and SQL, the unglamorous software that keeps the world running refuses to disappear ...

The system employs HMAC-SHA256 (Hash-based Message Authentication Code using SHA-256) for license integrity verification. SHA-256 refers to the Secure Hash Algorithm producing 256-bit hash values (see ...

Busy businesses need all the help they can get to automate processes and keep operations running smoothly. This means incorporating various platforms to automatically streamline tasks and boost ...

There’s something immensely satisfying about taking a series of low impact CVEs, and stringing them together into a full exploit. That’s the story we have from [Mehmet Ince] of ...

Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has pulled the contents from a more than half-century-old tape found at ...