I put Ubuntu on an old Dell laptop to see if Linux could really replace Windows 11. See why my final destination was so worth ...

Exploit for "Bad Epoll" Linux kernel vulnerability (CVE-2026-46242) can lead to root access on desktops, servers, and Android ...

A newly disclosed use-after-free in the Linux kernel's epoll code, CVE-2026-46242, lets an unprivileged user get root on ...

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Linux kernel privilege escalation exploit DirtyClone (CVE-2026-43503) is publicly documented: JFrog published a working attack walkthrough Thursday showing how any local user can gain root on ...

CVE-2026-43503 DirtyClone is the fourth DirtyFrag-family privilege escalation in six weeks. JFrog's public PoC raises the ...

The new kernel, Linux 7.1, brings a modern NTFS driver and activates Intel's FRED by default. Furthermore, the use of AI in development is causing a stir.

If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For most of the history of personal computing, ...

Abstract: Aiming at the problem that non-Linux RTOS systems lack a native epoll interface and are difficult to adapt to complex I/O applications, this paper proposes a method that supports epoll file ...

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A new security patch just released for the Linux kernel. This isn't a typical headline-grabbing "instant root" exploit. Instead, it's a clever "File Descriptor (FD) Theft" vulnerability that has been ...

Security researchers recently found a major flaw in the Linux kernel that grants root access on major Linux distributions since 2017. They named it Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431). The Copy Fail bug is ...