CVE-2026-31431 CVSS 7.8 flaw since 2017 enables root via 732-byte exploit, impacting major Linux distributions.

WSL9x lets Windows 9x systems run a modern Linux 6.19 kernel without virtualization, showing how vintage PCs can still ...

Threat hunters are warning that the cybercriminal operation known as VECT 2.0 acts more like a wiper than a ransomware due to ...

According to Hailey's upload on Codeberg, WSL9x runs the 6.19 Linux kernel cooperatively within Windows 9x, allowing users to interact with it just like they would a WSL instance in a modern Windows ...

This Thursday PlayStation 3 owners who install a firmware update will find that the ability to run other operating systems—such as Linux—will be removed. Most people won’t even notice, but hacker ...

The North Korean hacker group Kimsuki has been using a new Linux malware called Gomir that is a version of the GoBear backdoor delivered via trojanized software installers. Kimsuky is a ...

WTF?! A well-known hacker has done the impossible. He got a stripped-down version of Linux to run on a 4-bit Intel chip from the early 1970s. Sure, it takes nearly five days for the kernel to boot, ...

People talking about booting things on Turing machines might enjoy this recent one from Ken Shirriff on the Minuteman III missile's guidance system. It has NO RAM and uses serial processing, reading ...

Yeah that is exactly what he is going to do on the one he built for his office. I hope it does boot before 2038 specifically otherwise he's going to have to go back and rewrite all the time_t stuff ...