A practitioner's breakdown of the CSRF attack: how the forged request works, two documented exploits, a manual test, and the ...

Researchers have analyzed a high-severity vulnerability in Linux that’s able to escalate untrusted users to root by exploiting a bug you don’t often see: a single errant character inside the kernel.

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 ...

Microsoft recently announced Azure Linux 4.0 and Azure Container Linux at Open Source Summit North America 2026 in Minneapolis. Azure Linux 4.0 is a Fedora-based, general-purpose server distribution ...

The open-source community is looking for a way out of the wave of new laws requiring operating systems to collect users’ ages. The open-source community is looking for a way out of the wave of new ...

There's no life without water in Subnautica 2, so if you haven't found some yet, make it your top priority before the thirst meter runs dry. Of course, drinking seawater is not an option, but there's ...

Whether you’ve heard the original version by Tommy James and the Shondells or one of countless cover versions by Joan Jett, Prince, Cher, or Larkin Poe, you’ve likely heard the song “Crimson And ...

France is trying to move on from Microsoft Windows. The country said it plans to move some of its government computers currently running Windows to the open source operating system Linux to further ...

Zach began writing for CNET in November 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, Cincinnati, for five years. You can usually find him hanging out with his wife, son and dog in ...

The MX Linux project has taken a firm stance in a growing controversy across the Linux ecosystem: mandatory age-verification requirements at the operating system level. In a recent update, the team ...

VentureBeat made with Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Image Anthropic appears to have accidentally revealed the inner workings of one of its most popular and lucrative AI products, the agentic AI harness Claude ...

Do you have an ancient laptop or desktop just lying around? Transform that aging PC into an NAS, experiment with a new OS, ...