I did some BBC Basic back in the 80s, in between loading up Magic Mushrooms with a deft Ctrl-Break. But I don’t think I knew anything about what I was doing until I started with Blitz BASIC, which I think was on an Amiga Format coverdisk... One of my

Eight-year-old me used to stay behind after school, typing listings into the primary school’s only BBC Micro. It was likely 1982 and while what I was doing confused the cleaning lady and many of the teachers, to me it felt like the future. I went on

Epic Games, the developer of video games such as Unreal Tournament and E Fortnite, is also behind the popular Unreal Engine, which is used by a whole range of game developers to create modern, graphically impressive titles. While the company is often

"Improvise, adapt, overcome. When Bear Grylls tweeted those words back in 2013 it generated a widely used meme, but it also seems to be our mantra since 2020. It’s fair to say that these past few years have been hard. The world of technology is strug

A new malware known as the Lightning Framework has been discovered. Termed a “Swiss Army Knife” by the Intezer security team (see https://bit.ly/ lxf293lfmalware), this malware has a modular design and support for plugins, which means it can be used

Maybe you work on a help desk, or maybe you use one. Maybe both. There’s often a disconnect between one side of the help desk and the other, with each side having an equally low opinion of the other. Yet both parties want to reach a common goal: the

Users of 32-bit Linux distros won’t receive kernel patches to protect them against the CVE-2022-29900 and CVE- 2022-29901 attacks. These are also known as Retbleed – variants of Spectre, the vulnerability in Intel and AMD chips – and exploits a mitig

The app store mentality has filtered beyond consumer software and now extends into the enterprise space. We’re migrating our applications to the cloud to take advantage of these services. Alongside this, we see more software features offered only via

The latest Linux kernel (5.19) is out, but that wasn’t the talking point of the new release. As Linux creator Linus Torvalds put it, “The most interesting part here is that I did the release (and am writing this) on an arm64 laptop… thanks to the Asa

Linus Torvalds released Linux 5.19, the last kernel in the 5.x series. Among its many features is support for the “LoongArch” architecture (similar to MIPS or RISC-V, intended for the Chinese market), Zstd-compressed firmware files, and various fixes

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All five printers in this Roundup employ auto bed levelling. This was one of the first big features to hit 3D printing, and its introduction removed hours of tinkering and adjustment. These days it’s a common option, and you should steer clear of any

There’s a list of key features and functionality that you need to be aware of when shopping around for a 3D printer. Some of these features would have been simply nice to have a couple of years ago, but are now essential. The first feature that we me

Once upon a time, there was a magazine called Linux User & Developer (LUD). It was a reasonable title, but not in the same highcalibre league as Linux Format. Noting it could never be LXF, LUD did the honourable thing and ordered its parent company t

Les Pounder is associate editor at Tom’s Hardware and a freelance maker for hire. He blogs about his adventures and projects at bigl.es. ›Any model of Raspberry Pi ›Raspberry Pi OS ›RasPiO Analog Zero ›A breadboard ›An LED ›10K Ohm potentiometer

Credit: https://www.haiku-os.org Michael Reed led a wild life as a younger man. The BBC Micro, Acorn Archimedes, Amiga, DOS, OS/2, Windows, Linux were his hangouts. Haiku is an open source operating system that seeks to recreate the now-defunct BeOS

Credit: https://heimdall.site A ll good things must come to an end. Actually, that’s not true, there are plenty of things which were established decades, centuries, or even millennia ago and are still going strong: The Archers, the Tower of Jericho,

RUST OUR EXPERT Get the code for this tutorial from the Linux Format archive: www. linuxformat. com/archives ?issue=293. You can learn more about Rust at www. rust-lang.org. This month we’ll learn how to develop TCP/IP servers and clients in Rust

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OUR EXPERT Onthe current web there are a few, enormous companies that dominate your activities and collect your data. For many of us this is a worrying development that we need to do something about. One technical solution is to develop a new versio