Alice Ryhl, a software engineer on Google's Android Rust team and core maintainer of Tokio, discussed Rust's unique features and governance in a podcast episode. She highlighted that Rust's memory saf…
The Virtual OS Museum is a pre-configured Linux VM for QEMU, VirtualBox, or UTM that contains over 1,700 pre-installed operating systems and applications spanning from the late 1940s to today, all acc…
The article describes how the developers of microsandbox improved performance by 47× by replacing their user-space FUSE filesystem with a Linux EROFS disk image mounted directly by the VM. The origina…
"Copy Fail," a dangerous Linux local-privilege escalation vulnerability that exploits a kernel memory corruption flaw to provide a controlled 4-byte write into the Linux page cache. This allows attack…
User-space security agents are structurally flawed because they share the same privilege level as the processes they monitor, allowing attackers with root access to simply kill the agent or erase logs…
A developer has built a "render-html-mcp" tool, an MCP server that pops up a standalone desktop browser window to display HTML or Markdown content. The Python-based server uses the FastMCP framework a…
The article suggests adding an automatic EFI installer to Haiku's installation process, as users currently must manually select "Tools > Install EFI" after installation. The author proposes running th…
Linux founder Linus Torvalds stated in his latest kernel update that the Linux security list has become nearly unmanageable due to a flood of AI-generated bug reports, which create massive duplication…
The Linux kernel's ptrace subsystem contains a privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-46333, that allows local attackers to exploit a loophole in dumpability flag checks. Security res…
The article describes a bug in Cloudflare's QUIC implementation (quiche) where the CUBIC congestion control algorithm's congestion window (cwnd) becomes permanently stuck at its minimum value after a …
The article reports that a second severe Linux vulnerability, named "Dirty Frag," has been disclosed within two weeks, allowing low-privilege users and containers to gain root access. Exploit code was…
Google's official gasket-driver repository for Coral TPU support has been abandoned as of April 2026, breaking compatibility with Debian 13/Trixie running kernel 6.13+. A community-maintained fork now…
On April 29, 2026, the Linux kernel vulnerability "Copy Fail" (CVE-2026-31431) was publicly disclosed, prompting Cloudflare's security teams to assess the exploit technique and evaluate their infrastr…
A critical Linux vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-31431 and named CopyFail, was publicly disclosed on Wednesday after being privately reported to the Linux kernel security team five weeks prior. The…
"Copy Fail" (CVE-2026-31431), a logic bug in the Linux kernel's authencesn cryptographic template that allows an unprivileged local user to execute a deterministic 4-byte write into the page cache of …
Microsoft released an emergency patch for ASP.NET Core to fix a high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2026-40372) that allows unauthenticated attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges on Linux and macOS devices.…
The article investigates the performance impact of "split locks" on x86-64 CPUs, which are atomic operations that span two cache lines and force a disruptive "bus lock." Testing on Intel's Arrow Lake …
This article provides a technical guide for installing TrueNAS SCALE on a 16GB partition of a large NVMe drive, rather than using the entire disk, to conserve storage space. It details how to modify t…
The article discusses the 80386 processor's improved protection model, which added paging, a flat 32-bit address space, and Virtual 8086 mode to make protected mode usable after the 80286's unpopular …
Railway engineer Phin developed a feature called Network Flows, which uses eBPF to provide real-time visualization of traffic between services, eliminating the need for traditional tools like tcpdump.…