Linux kernel developers are moving forward with plans to remove the crypto_rng API layer, a long-standing component of the ...

Panic no more.

Linux 6.17 features significant CPU improvements. It addresses the eternal Spectre and Meltdown security holes. The next release, 6.18, will be a long-term support kernel. Linus Torvalds is the first ...

From Rust in the core to much improved NTFS support and better Mac compatibility, your kernel does it all.

Vienna, Austria: Linus Torvalds and I are both in Vienna, which is being blasted by a storm. So, instead of looking at museums, I spent my time writing, and he spent his time releasing the Linux 6.11 ...

AMD P-State is the modern CPU frequency scaling driver for AMD Ryzen processors on Linux. Rather than relying on the older ...

The latest Linux kernel released includes changes to networking, CPU architecture, Arm support, graphics and storage. Linus Torvalds is a busy man who continues to toil away at the Linux kernel to ...

If you're responsible for Linux security, someone just dumped a pile of work onto your desk: 432 Linux kernel CVEs were ...

The Linux kernel development process is akin to a game of leapfrog. Even-numbered kernels (v2.0, v2.2, v2.4) are stable kernels, and odd-numbered kernels are unstable, or development, kernels. As soon ...

CVE-2026-64531 lets local users exploit Open vSwitch kernel memory corruption to gain root, with a public PoC covering ...

Researchers have analyzed a high-severity vulnerability in Linux that’s able to escalate untrusted users to root by exploiting a bug you don’t often see: a single errant character inside the kernel.