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.

We installed WSL Containers on Windows 11, built a custom container from scratch, tested it, and checked what still needs ...

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 ...

Is Linux Kernel 7.2 really 43 million lines? We verified the count with wc, cloc, tokei, and scc tools and explain why the ...

Kali Linux 2026.2, the second release of the year, is now available for download, featuring 9 new tools and numerous Kali ...

It'll get a public release in a few months.

Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's own Fedora-derived Linux distro for Azure cloud workloads. Here is how it compares to Ubuntu, ...

Some projects thrive. Some never make it off the ground.

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 ...

A nine-year-old logic flaw in the Linux kernel's process trace (ptrace) path has been discovered that could let unprivileged local users read sensitive files, including secure shell host (SSH) private ...

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 ...