An information disclosure vulnerability in the Linux kernel can be exploited to leak data and act as a springboard for further compromise. Disclosed by Cisco Talos researchers on Tuesday, the bug is ...

With memory pages shared among applications, sometimes it’s hard to tell how much you’ll really save by killing that memory hog. Two new memory metrics offer help for busy administrators. Anybody who ...

If the reports are accurate, it appears that Intel might have a pretty severe chip-level security bug on its hands that cannot be simply swatted away with a microcode update. The bug affects all ...

The Internet Security Research Group (ISRG)—parent organization of the better-known Let's Encrypt project—has provided prominent developer Miguel Ojeda with a one-year contract to work on Rust in ...

Linus Torvalds has kicked off yet another development cycle for the Linux kernel, announcing the release of 5.10-rc1, and this time with an historical twist. The new version of the kernel effectively ...

All programs use memory, even ones that do nothing. Memory misuse results in a good portion of fatal program errors, such as program termination and unexpected behavior. Memory is a device for ...

Microsoft released the optional KB5058499 update for Windows 11, version 24H2, to address several system-level graphics defects. Users running this build had reported persistent graphics memory leaks ...