Linus Torvalds has released the first release candidate (RC1) for the upcoming Linux kernel 7.4. Here's what's new in Linux 7 ...

I installed three popular Linux distros on an old laptop to see which one handled older hardware best. I compared their idle ...

An unidentified attacker compromised the update channel for cPGuard, a security tool used on Linux hosting servers, to distribute a malicious script that installed a backdoor and collected sensitive ...

Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.4-rc1 on November 1, 2026, closing a merge window of almost 20,000 commits. His own words in the rc1 announcement as mirrored by Tux Machines were blunt: “This is a BIG ...

The main reasons why users might not want to opt for Systemd are: the large codebase, scope creep, and tight integration with other systems. Devuan, on the other hand, retains the more Unix-like ...

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The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added an actively exploited Linux kernel vulnerability ...

On Sunday, November 1, 2026, Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.4-rc1. In his LKML announcement, he called this a "large merge window" and wrote his assessment of how AI-related work is flowing into the ...

CISA added CVE-2026-46300, a Linux kernel privilege escalation flaw nicknamed Fragnesia, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on October 28, 2026. The bug carries a CVSS score of 7.8, sits ...

Anthropic says an unreleased AI model developed a zero-click Linux attack that ran commands as root, the operating system’s highest administrative authority. The Anthropic Linux kernel exploit targets ...

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