Windows operating system comes with both Kernel and User modes, but not everyone knows the difference between both. In fact, most users have no idea these modes exist, but yet they’ve used them before ...

Much of modern operating system functionality happens in and around the kernel. That’s a problem when you’re implementing monitoring and observability tools or adding low-level security tools because ...

When Apple released a preview version of iOS 10 at its annual developers conference last week, the company slipped in a surprise for security researchers — it left the core of its operating system, ...

Corbin is a tech journalist and developer who worked at Android Police from 2016 until 2021. Check out his other work at corbin.io. Every single operating system developed by Google to date has one ...

Make a system call now, get the result later: a proposed kernel patch expands the possibilities for asynchronous I/O. The kernel’s support for asynchronous I/O is incomplete, and it always has been.

Linux is a robust and stable operating system kernel, but there are instances where it can panic, be it due to bad hardware or bad software. It does not happen often, but it can happen. If you’re ...

Both Windows and Linux are receiving significant security updates that can, in the worst case, cause performance to drop by half, to defend against a problem that as yet hasn’t been fully disclosed.