Microsoft's Raymond Chen has explained why holding down Shift during a Windows 95 restart would get the system up and running again far faster than a full reboot.… Some old hands will nod sagely over ...

A flaw in Anthropic's Claude Cowork lets its AI agent break out of its virtual machine and reach sensitive files across a ...

The reasoning goes like this… Apple's various operating systems, from macOS to iOS to the cut-down ones in the Apple Watch ...

A split-second race inside the Linux kernel was all it took to turn a routine filesystem copy-on-write operation into a serious privilege escalation. Linux systems using the XFS filesystem suffer from ...

A ransomware operation that has quietly evolved for four years just achieved something security researchers say they had not seen before: it obtained a legitimately signed Microsoft kernel driver ...

A threat actor used the open-source Hermes AI agent in unattended "YOLO" mode to automate post-exploitation activity during ...

Microsoft on Wednesday morning issued an emergency update to its Microsoft Malware Protection Engine, closing CVE-2026-50656 — the Windows Defender privilege-escalation flaw known as RoguePlanet — 29 ...

While Windows has represented my go-to operating system more often than not, that doesn't mean I especially like using it. Microsoft appears to be all too aware of begrudging use cases such as my own, ...

For the first time, the source code of KSOS, backed by the US Department of Defense in the late 1970s and 1980s, is available to the public in the archives of The Unix Heritage Society (TUHS). "KSOS ...