An AI agent just autonomously exploited a FreeBSD kernel vulnerability in four hours, signaling a fundamental shift in the ...

However, SeL4 can be used, in theory, as a foundation for Linux and other Unix related operating systems. For example, it was briefly considered for use in Richard M. Stallman's still-born Gnu Hurd ...

With atomic updates and immutable approaches, gaming-focused Linux distributions like Bazzite are shaping the future for ...

In April 2026, Microsoft is blocking old kernel drivers in Windows, closing a vulnerability that's been exploited for years.

Real-time and embedded systems operate in constrained environments in which memory and processing power are limited. They must provide their services within strict time deadlines to their users and to ...

Ultimately, every problem in the constantly evolving IT software stack becomes a database problem, which is why there are 418 different databases and datastores in the DB Engines rankings and there ...

At the WWDC conference last year, Apple announced plans to deprecate macOS "kernel extensions" (KEXTs) and replace them with a new mechanism called "system extensions." The first step towards this ...

Embedded system developers have a wide range of operating systems available to them today. Of course, the most straightforward operating system is to have no operating system! However, many systems ...