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Doing authentication right

Any substantial website is going to need to customize itself for individual users. Thus, it is going to have to authenticate those users — that is, let them log in. As a software developer, it is your job to make the whole process as smooth and secure as possible. Of course, doing this creates all sorts

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New tweak to Linux kernel could cut data center power usage by up to 30%

An improvement to the way Linux handles network traffic, developed by researchers at Canada’s University of Waterloo, could make data center applications run more efficiently and save energy at the same time. Waterloo professor Martin Karsten and Joe Damato, distinguished engineer at Fastly, developed the code — approximately 30 lines. It’s based on research described

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PowerSchool starts sending breach notifications, but there are still questions left to answer

Education software platform PowerSchool has started sending breach notifications to victims of a December 2024 cyberattack, but has yet to share how many people were affected or what exactly happened, reports BleepingComputer.  PowerSchool, which has has more than 18,000 customers worldwide and serves over 60 million students, suffered a breach on December 28th that may

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Garmin smartwatches are stuck on a ‘triangle of death,’ and here’s a potential fix

Credit: Reddit user SuspiciousCucumber16 Several Garmin smartwatch models are stuck in an infinite reboot (aka a bootloop, or as users call it, the “triangle of death”) once users start a GPS-related functionality like workout tracking. Garmin is aware of the problem and is currently investigating the issue. Potential fixes involve removing the faulty update file

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