A new Linux kernel bug lets an ordinary, unprivileged user become root. It now hits Android too. Researchers have named it Bad Epoll. The Bad Epoll vulnerability carries the identifier CVE-2026-46242.

Microsoft's Linux server distribution is now available as an ISO to install on your own server or virtual machine.

Eighteen new GNU releases in the last month (as of June 30, 2026): apl-2.0: GNU APL is a free interpreter for the programming language APL. It is an implementation of the ISO stan ...

Decades-old Bash shell tricks can bypass safeguards in most open source AI coding agents, creating a new software supply ...

Security tooling is not written in a single language. Python powers most automation. C sits at the exploit layer. PowerShell ...

A minimal Linux distro from Microsoft? Anything is possible.

NetBSD is a real Unix that can run almost anywhere. Can it run as a desktop?

The victory of GPT-5.5 aligns with recent third-party analysis suggesting that OpenAI's models are currently superior at strictly adhering to multi-part, complex prompts.

With Coreutils for Windows, the same shell commands and scripts should run on Windows, Linux, and WSL. Microsoft relies on ...

Microsoft announced today at its Build 2026 developer conference the release of Coreutils for Windows, bringing many commonly used Linux command-line utilities to Windows as native applications. The ...

Abstract: POSIX.1-2024 is simultaneously IEEE Std 1003.1™-2024 and The Open Group Standard Base Specifications, Issue 8. POSIX.1-2024 defines a standard operating system interface and environment, ...