｢ Arch Linux Project has confirmed that recent outages affecting its infrastructure are the result of an ongoing DoS attack. The disruptions have primarily hit the project’s main website, the Arch User Repository (AUR), and its community forums ｣

https://linuxiac.com/arch-linux-confirms-ongoing-denial-of-service-attack/

Back to the 90s on Real Hardware - As the march of time continues on, it becomes harder and harder to play older vide... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/22/back-to-the-90s-on-real-hardware/ #retrocomputing #soundblaster #windows98 #hardware #vortex86 #cs4237b #32-bit #gaming #retro #sound #dos #isa #x86

Fastly warns AI bots can hit sites 39K times per minute | The Register

｢ Cloud services giant Fastly has released a report claiming AI crawlers are putting a heavy load on the open web, slurping up sites at a rate that accounts for 80 percent of all AI bot traffic, with the remaining 20 percent used by AI fetchers. Bots and fetchers can hit websites hard, demanding data from a single site in thousands of requests per minute ｣

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/ai_crawler_traffic/

Made changes to my #DOS menu system. Rather than garish colours for each category, I've toned things down and added borders.

A fascinating story about a #DoS #vulnerability in the Expat #XML parser

#Recursion kills: The story behind CVE-2024-8176 / #Expat 2.7.0 released, includes security fixes

https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/expat-2-7-0-released/

A good resource for your #dos utility needs that I found today while scrambling about. https://dosprograms.info.tt/ #retrocomputing

Time for a Tandy 1000SX #pc #retrocomputing upgrade. Adding a Future Domain SCSI Controller so I can get to my Sony CD-RW from DOS.

Shout out to VOGONS: https://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=2142&menustate=59,55

and to the folks who archived all the drivers here: https://archive.org/details/dosdrivers

With 400KBytes or so of RAM free now on this NEC V20 updated box. I suspect I want to get a CD music player for #DOS from somewhere, recommendations?

HTTP 1.1 is broken ... HTTP2 is broken ... let's go back to gopher.

‘MadeYouReset’ HTTP2 Vulnerability Enables Massive DDoS Attacks

https://www.securityweek.com/madeyoureset-http2-vulnerability-enables-massive-ddos-attacks/

dosctl - is a #linux #commandline tool to search for #dos games online, and to download, install, manage and play them.

https://github.com/xesco/dosctl

Win-DDoS: Attackers can turn public domain controllers into DDoS agents https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/08/11/win-ddos-domain-controllers-ddos-vulnerability-cve-2025-32724/ #vulnerability #WindowsServer #enterprise #SafeBreach #Don'tmiss #Hotstuff #Windows #News #DDoS #DoS

Does anybody have any experience with using DOS on an Intel Atom netbook? I have an Acer AspireOne D250 and I think it would make a neat little FreeDOS machine.

Vibing with the 486 + GUS last night*.

*(Actually an AMD 5x86 160)

Do you remember using WordStar on the Televideo Tele-PC? Of course you don’t!
But now you can. Don’t you want to frob that keyboard?

100% of reviewers have rated Visual DOS 2024 Tech Preview 5 stars.

No, I will not tell you it's only been 2 reviews, that's irrelevant. Visual DOS Tech Preview is a 5-star Operating System

https://antijingoist.itch.io/visual-dos-2024-tech-preview

Jenny’s Daily Drivers: FreeDOS 1.4 - When I was a student, I was a diehard Commodore Amiga user, having upgraded to an ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/06/jennys-daily-drivers-freedos-1-4/ #hackadaycolumns #computerhacks #softwarehacks #freedos #16bit #dos

Staying up late at night compelled me to make an ANSI screen for a fake DOS game.

The board is pleased to announce that the engineer who suggested that Visual DOS 2024 Tech Preview must be experienced in a single session has been terminated.

https://antijingoist.itch.io/visual-dos-2024-tech-preview/devlog/998732/save-states-supported-in-browser