Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has successfully retrieved the contents of the over-half-a-century old tape found at the University of Utah last month. There's a video of the ...

[danjovic] came up with a nifty entry for our 2025 One-Hertz Challenge that lands somewhere between the categories of Ridiculous and Clockwork. It’s a clock that few hackers, if any, could read on ...

A researcher has recovered the oldest known machine-readable version of Unix yet, an early Unix version 2 release from 1972. The backstory is incredible. Now, however, forensic code researcher Yufeng ...

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In Linux and Unix-like operating systems, timestamps are often used to represent dates and times in a machine-readable format. However, for human users, these timestamps can be difficult to interpret.

When transferring text files between Linux/Unix and Windows systems, you may encounter issues with line breaks and file formatting. This is because Windows uses both a line feed (LF) and a carriage ...

YouTube users can now include video timestamps when sharing links from the mobile app. For the time being, users can only adjust the shared timestamp by manually scrubbing through the video’s timeline ...

For those unfamiliar with the inner workings of computers, the concept of “running out of time” might sound like science fiction or an everyday headline regarding climate change. However, unbeknown to ...

Abstract: File system forensics is one of the most important areas of digital forensic investigations. To date, various file system forensic methods have been studied, of which anti-forensic ...