Much of the world’s web traffic is routed through data centers, which also fuel power-guzzling artificial intelligence (AI) ...

The vulnerable drivers were exploited in 'Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver' (BYOVD) attacks where threat actors drop the kernel driver on a targeted system to elevate privileges. "An attacker with ...

Christoph Hellwig, a long-time and highly respected Linux kernel developer, was the maintainer of the DMA (Direct Memory Access) mapping subsystem and several other kernel areas. He raised concerns ...

Rust, a modern and notably more memory-safe language than C, once seemed like it was on a steady, calm, and gradual approach into the Linux kernel. By late 2024, however, Rust enthusiasts were ...

Rust was added to the Linux kernel in 2022 because it allows better memory safety than C. Technical experts have for years pointed out that the majority of serious bugs and vulnerabilities in large ...

The NES also has considerably less RAM and addressable memory space than the IBM 5150, requiring decrazyo to implement memory mapping techniques ... the Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset.

Why Rust in the Kernel? The main reason for considering Rust is its memory safety features. The Linux kernel is written in C, a language that, while powerful, requires careful memory management to ...

The NVIDIA open kernel modules support the same range of Linux kernel versions that are supported with the proprietary NVIDIA kernel modules. This is currently Linux kernel 4.15 or newer.