A new Linux kernel bug lets an ordinary, unprivileged user become root. It now hits Android too. Researchers have named it Bad Epoll. The Bad Epoll vulnerability carries the identifier CVE-2026-46242.
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Fedora Linux 45 could come with Shadow Stack enabled by default. If your hardware supports this, you will get extra protection from ROP attacks.
Microsoft's Linux server distribution is now available as an ISO to install on your own server or virtual machine.
The PorteuX project has officially released PorteuX 2.6, bringing a new round of updates to the lightweight Slackware-based ...
Sachi Kamiya's Sentient Foundation, backed by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, has committed $42 million to open-source AGI as crypto becomes the payment rail for AI agents.
Eighteen new GNU releases in the last month (as of June 30, 2026): apl-2.0: GNU APL is a free interpreter for the programming language APL. It is an implementation of the ISO stan ...
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Microsoft is releasing a server Linux, a container Linux, and a Windows 11 built for Linux programmers. Here's why.
In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...
PCWorld’s guide helps users navigate the overwhelming choice of approximately 250 Linux distributions by focusing on five main strains: Debian, Red Hat/Fedora, Arch, Slackware, and Gentoo.