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I ran the one command in Linux you should never run. Here's what happened

Of all the Linux commands, rm is notorious. It's easy to completely wipe out your system with one mislaid rm command as root. I knew not to, but I ran that command on purpose anyway. Here's why.
Bleeping Computer

New CacheWarp AMD CPU attack lets hackers gain root in Linux VMs

A new software-based fault injection attack, CacheWarp, can let threat actors hack into AMD SEV-protected virtual machines by targeting memory writes to escalate privileges and gain remote code ...
InfoWorld

Docker goes rootless — and that’s a good thing

Containers will no longer have to be run as root in Linux, thanks to a new feature in Docker 1.10 Docker 1.10, the latest version of the software containerization system, addresses one of its most ...