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.…
The author announces that their band, The Stop Bits, will perform at the Vintage Computer Festival SoCal on February 14, 2026, in Orange, CA. They also introduce a new subscription preference system f…
Deno Sandbox is a new security feature from Deno Deploy that provides lightweight Linux microVMs for running untrusted code, such as LLM-generated scripts, with defense-in-depth isolation. It protects…
The Intel 80386, released in 1985, was the first 32-bit x86 processor, introducing a flat 4GB address space, virtual memory with paging, and an effective protected mode. It significantly improved arit…
The author explains their decision to switch from the st terminal emulator, which they valued for its speed and compatibility with DWM's swallow patch, to the Ghostty terminal. The primary reasons for…
This article documents the resolution of recurring NFS stale file handle errors in a home lab environment using an UNRAID NAS and multiple Linux clients. The root cause was identified as UNRAID filesy…
The article argues that C is a fundamentally fixable language, with its main flaws stemming from its outdated standard library rather than the language itself. The author proposes replacing null-termi…
Society is living in a "pre-cyberpunk" reality where corporate-government fusion is already occurring, despite people believing they are resisting it. It claims that modern "resistance" has shifted fr…