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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...