Public exploits for four patched Linux kernel flaws let local users gain root; three require unprivileged user namespaces.

Vercel’s $1 million sandbox challenge generated 1,285 bug reports, uncovering critical vulnerabilities, but no access to ...

A patched Linux kernel vulnerability in the IPv6 network stack is drawing renewed attention after OpenAI's agents exploited it.

Recently, Linux distro maintainers have been defining what counts as an acceptable level of LLM-generated code in their repos ...

SPECTRE backdoor, deployed by post-compromise by Chinese-speaking hacker group UAT-10147 after gaining admin access, can strip kernel-level visibility from EDR products using BYOVD callback unlinking ...

AI-assisted bug hunting is driving Linux toward 2,000 CVEs per release, surfacing real flaws and mountains of low-priority work for overwhelmed maintainers.

Mike Dolan, senior vice president of legal and strategic programs at the Linux Foundation, submitted a license called OpenMDW, short for "Open Model, Data, and Weights," to the Open Source Initiative ...

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Magento zero-day vulnerability CVE-2026-75650 exploited a fully patched store for three days before Adobe released APSB26-146 on September 7. A self-updating Rust backdoor survived the patch, evaded ...

Tengu is a stealthy Linux botnet that turns compromised servers and IoT devices into tools for DDoS attacks and traffic relaying.

In September 2026, a quiet yet definitive tectonic shift occurred in the world of GPU programming. NVIDIA announced a groundbreaking toolchain that allows GPU kernels to be written directly in Rust ...

The latest Apple Silicon enablement code working its way from the Asahi Linux project toward the upstream Linux kernel is the AVD driver used for accelerated video playback across Apple M1 / M2 / M3 ...