After going through eight different release candidates, Linux engineer Linus Torvalds officially announced the release of the Linux 4.8 kernel branch on Monday, marking the end of a long and arduous ...

The new kernel's number ends in zero, but it's not a milestone release. Linux 7.0 boasts improvements in Rust, its scheduler - and it's further embracing AI. More than half a dozen distros will let ...

The embedded computing universe includes computers of all sizes, from tiny portable devices--such as wristwatch cameras--to systems having thousands of nodes distributed worldwide, as is the case with ...

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There have been many reports, especially with MacBook Air and other laptop owners, where the Mac OS X "kernel_task" process takes up a large amount of CPU when checked in Activity Monitor. When this ...

These bugs may be exploited over-the-air via malicious packets on untrusted wireless networks, making them a significant threat Linux has received patches for five Wi-Fi vulnerabilities that were ...

While the phrase "640KB RAM ought to be enough for anybody" was falsely attributed to Bill Gates, it definitely outlines a way many of us think about the computing limits we're faced with. At the time ...

Intel's CPU security took some whacks a few months ago, with well-publicized problems with the Intel Management Engine. If rumors are to believed, 2018 could kick off on an even worse year for the ...

Discover the hidden Linux kernel inside your Windows PC and how it can revolutionize your computing experience.

If I tell you to think of an open-source project, the first word that probably comes to mind is Linux. Then, if I ask you what open-source actually means, you'd probably say something like: "Open ...