The Linux kernel is moving toward a better way of identifying developers and their code. This new approach can be used by other open-source projects. It's not being rolled out yet, but I expect it to ...

Within the span of three weeks, Linux administrators have been handed their third root-level privilege-escalation ...

Linux server admins may get the ability to turn off a vulnerable function in the OS kernel until a patch for a zero-day ...

When Rust first made its way into the Linux kernel in late 2022 (mainline inclusion began with version 6.1), it didn’t merely introduce a new programming language, it marked a profound shift in how we ...

Another Linux kernel flaw has handed local unprivileged users a way to peek at files they should never be able to read, ...

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A pair of newly disclosed Linux kernel vulnerabilities, collectively dubbed Fragnesia, allow a local attacker to corrupt the ...

When Sarah Sharp was a 20-year-old university student in Portland, she took on an extra-credit project writing USB driver code for the Linux kernel. She was too young to stay past 10pm in some of the ...

WSL9x lets Windows 9x systems run a modern Linux 6.19 kernel without virtualization, showing how vintage PCs can still stretch beyond old limits.