Make sure you know what your AI is coding.

The stable release of Linux Kernel 6.18 was officially tagged on November 30, 2025. It’s expected to become this year’s major long-term support (LTS) kernel, something many users and distributions ...

XBOW’s AI system found a high-severity Linux kernel flaw that can let some users gain root privileges. The bug affects SMC-D ...

Four Linux kernel flaws DirtyAH6, TUNderflow, PPPoEject, and DiagSpill could enable local attackers to corrupt memory and gain root privileges.

Google is exploring a new approach to Linux kernel security that could significantly change how device drivers interact with ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned that attackers are actively exploiting three Linux kernel vulnerabilities, creating an urgent patching and investigation ...

Public exploits for four patched Linux kernel flaws let local users gain root; three require unprivileged user namespaces.

Ads are what make it possible to produce new content on Phoronix each and every day over the past 20 years. Please support ...

A newly disclosed Linux kernel flaw called Bad Epoll (CVE-2026-46242) lets an ordinary user with no special access take full control of a machine as root. It affects Linux desktops, servers, and ...

While the Linux kernel continues to be bombarded with patches from AI/LLM agents, to date the kernel hasn't carried an AGENTS.md Markdown file with instructions catering to AI/LLM agents. But a patch ...

NAPA, Calif. — In the immortal words of song developer Pete Townshend, “Well, who are you? (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?) I really wanna know!” Linux kernel maintainers have the same question: Who ...

Ring the bells, sound the trumpet, the Linux 6.19 kernel has arrived. Linus Torvalds announced that “6.19 is out as expected — just as the US prepares to come to a complete standstill later today, ...