Linus Torvalds has announced the release of Linux 7.1 with a rewritten NTFS filesystem driver, battery reporting for Apple Silicon devices and a Steam ...

This week, Linus Torvalds shared his latest weekly insights about the fifth release candidate of the Linux 7.1 kernel. For a while now, Torvalds has been telling us that he suspects AI tools are ...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in the Linux kernel that remained undetected for nine years. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-46333 (CVSS score: 5.5), is a ...

Patched in April, the underlying vulnerability allows local attackers to elevate their privileges to root. Proof-of-concept (PoC) code is now available for another Linux kernel vulnerability that ...

Proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code has now been released for a recently patched security flaw in the Linux kernel that could allow for local privilege escalation (LPE). Dubbed DirtyDecrypt (aka ...

The update will help developers and SREs investigate incidents faster and improve observability automation, while stopping short of replacing third-party SIEM platforms and offering direct cloud cost ...

Linux distros are rolling out patches for a new high-severity kernel privilege escalation vulnerability that allows attackers to run malicious code as root. Known as Fragnasia and tracked as ...

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-46300, is similar to the recently disclosed exploits named Dirty Frag and Copy Fail. Linux distributions are informing users about a new kernel vulnerability ...

Linux server admins may get the ability to turn off a vulnerable function in the OS kernel until a patch for a zero-day vulnerability is ready, if a proposal from a kernel developer and maintainer is ...

The actively exploited flaw builds on Dirty Pipe and Copy Fail techniques to overwrite page cache and gain full system control. A newly disclosed Linux privilege escalation issue dubbed “Dirty Frag” ...

Discovery of the Copy Fail Linux kernel exploit sparked widespread discussion and concern around Linux kernel security earlier this month, and that was for an exploit that had mostly already been ...