A profile of Zach Frankel, a secretive and unusually hands-on solo investor who wrote the first checks to startups like Ramp, Cognition, and Applied Compute (Jemima McEvoy/The Information)

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Why Engineering Laptops Are Becoming the Biggest Cybersecurity Risk in Industrial Facilities

Why Engineering Laptops Are Becoming the Biggest Cybersecurity Risk in Industrial Facilities An in-depth analysis of engineering workstation security, PLC programming environments, industrial network…

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Rolling Release Distros Superior To LTS Distros In The Patch-Heavy GenAI Era?

As some interesting food for thought and weekend forum discussions, this week at the Linux Plumbers Conference in Prague, Qualcomm engineer Khem Raj questioned the relevance of Linux Long Term Support…

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Building Secure Pipelines for Civic Technology

When a municipal water valve fails, the root cause is rarely malicious. More often, it traces back to an unverified config push that bypassed staging because the deployment pipeline dragged.

• Municipal water valves often fail due to unvalidated configuration updates.
• Security testing for civic technology is frequently treated as an afterthought.

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