Synthetic cell SpudCell, the first built from non-living components by University of Minnesota synthetic biologists Kate ...

LLVM powers the core development tools, operating systems, and most applications at Apple Computer, where it long ago ...

The PorteuX project has officially released PorteuX 2.6, bringing a new round of updates to the lightweight Slackware-based ...

Linux 7.2 has removed the kernel-side strncpy API after a six-year cleanup, shifting low-level code toward explicit ...

Proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code has been released for the CIFSwitch flaw, which allows low-privileged users to escalate to root on vulnerable Linux systems. A vulnerability that lurked in the ...

A newly discovered local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed 'CIFSwitch' in the Linux kernel could allow attackers to forge CIFS authentication key descriptions, abuse the kernel's key request ...

Linux admins reeling from handling last month’s CopyFail and last week’s Dirty Frag kernel vulnerabilities have a new headache to deal with: Fragnesia. “This is a significant vulnerability,” Robert ...

Details have emerged about a new, unpatched local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability impacting the Linux kernel. "Dirty Frag is a vulnerability (class) that achieves root privileges on most ...

CISA warns that the nine-year-old Linux Copy Fail flaw is being actively exploited, allowing local attackers to gain root access on affected systems. A Linux kernel flaw is giving attackers a ...

Experts say until the distros release patches, CSOs have to beware of unauthorized privilege escalation; Kubernetes container escape is also a risk. CSOs must ensure their Linux-based systems block ...

Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of Linux is setting off alarm bells as defenders scramble to ward off severe ...

Torvalds and the Linux maintainers are taking a pragmatic approach to using AI in the kernel. AI or no AI, it's people, not LLMs, who are responsible for Linux's code. If you try to mess around with ...