After years of countless reviews, discussions, and code rewrites, Linus Torvalds approved on Saturday a new security feature for the Linux kernel, named "lockdown." The new feature will ship as a LSM ...

The latest version of the Linux kernel cleans out nearly 100K lines of code, adds file encryption and the Berkeley Packet Filter, plus makes a nod to gamers and mobile devices. The recent release of ...

ZDNET's key takeaways Linux kernel developers are using AI to support project maintenance.Writing kernel code with AI remains an open question.Copyright and open-source licensing concerns still loom.

In an historic move, Microsoft on Monday submitted driver source code for inclusion in the Linux kernel under a GPLv2 license.The code consists of four drivers that are part of a technology called ...

Samsung's attempt to prevent attacks on Galaxy phones by modifying kernel code ended up exposing it to more security bugs, according to Google Project Zero (GPZ). Not only are smartphone makers like ...

When Linux 6.13 was released at the beginning of the week on January 20, the sources of the kernel called Linux consisted of exactly 39,819,522 lines of – code-comments, blank lines, documentation, ...

The Linux kernel is improving faster than ever, gaining 7.8 patches per hour and 4,600 lines of new code every day. That’s according to a new report published Monday by the Linux Foundation and ...

Exploit code will soon become available for a critical vulnerability in the Linux kernel that a security researcher discovered and reported to Linux administrators in mid-June. The bug, which the ...