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 your production Linux system is logging memory allocation failures, it might still be able to keep running. But developers want to keep an eye on which code can survive a shortage of memory. In ...

Memory management is a critical aspect of modern operating systems, ensuring efficient allocation and deallocation of system memory. Linux, as a robust and widely used operating system, employs ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. A warning has been issued to millions of Apple users after a security ...

The new attack method can leak privileged kernel memory on CPUs released in the past six years that have hardware mitigations for speculative execution and branch injection attacks like Spectre. Six ...

Apple is advising immediate patching against two critical zero-day vulnerabilities attackers are using to carry out memory-corruption attacks on Apple devices. Tracked as CVE-2024-23225 and ...