Shelly, the graphical front-end for Arch Linux's package system, has been rebuilt from scratch in the Zig programming ...

Two MIT researchers will present a new speculative execution attack at DEF CON 34 that uses precisely timed interrupts to bypass defenses against Spectre v2. Daniël Trujillo and Mengjia Yan of MIT's ...

AMD P-State is the modern CPU frequency scaling driver for AMD Ryzen processors on Linux. Rather than relying on the older ...

CVE-2026-64531 lets local users exploit Open vSwitch kernel memory corruption to gain root, with a public PoC covering ...

NetBSD 11 arrived later than announced, but now runs on RISC-V and offers ultra-fast MICROVM kernels for i386/amd64.

Linux desktop market share in North America has crossed 10% for the first time in StatCounter's July 2026 data, with ...

Honda And Nissan Are Circling A Shared Vehicle OS — And Their Architectures Don't Match Neither company has announced ...

AI-Assisted Hunt Exposes Linux Kernel Privilege Flaw Arabian Post. clearfix>A Linux kernel vulnerability capable of giving a local attacker root access has been publicly detailed after artificial inte ...

If you go to a local farmers market this summer, you’re likely to see the KERNEL – Kids Eating Right-Nutrition and Exercise for Life – program. Kids who come to the KERNEL booth participate in ...

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A recently patched local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel's rxgk module now has a proof-of-concept exploit that allows attackers to gain root access on some Linux systems. Named ...

An exploit has been published for a local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed “Copy Fail” that impacts Linux kernels released since 2017, allowing an unprivileged local attacker to gain root ...