The overall volume of kernel CVEs continues to climb: one security commentary noted the first 16 days of 2025 already saw 134 ...

CISA confirmed on Thursday that a high-severity privilege escalation flaw in the Linux kernel is now being exploited in ...

Various myths surround the question of who would take over the leadership of Linux in case of an emergency. However, there is ...

The US government is warning that a Linux flaw introduced more than a decade ago - and fixed more than a year ago - is being actively used in ransomware attacks.

Some time ago, Linus Torvalds made a throwaway comment that sent ripples through the Linux world. Was it perhaps time to abandon support for the now-ancient Intel 486? Developers had already abandoned ...

Microsoft will begin to ship an in-house custom built Linux kernel starting with the Windows 10 Insider builds this summer. This kernel is to become the backbone for the new Windows Subsystem for ...

If you're a big Linux kernel nerd, you might be shrugging your shoulders at version 6.8. After all, it's nowhere near the size of 6.7. In fact, Linus Torvalds (the creator of Linux) said in this Linux ...

The Linux kernel provides support for memory management, interprocess communication mechanisms, interrupt management, and TCP / IP networking. The directory structure separates architecture-dependent ...

After years of countless reviews, discussions, and code rewrites, Linus Torvalds approved on Saturday a new security feature for the Linux kernel, named "lockdown." The new feature will ship as a LSM ...

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