A new Linux kernel bug lets an ordinary, unprivileged user become root. It now hits Android too. Researchers have named it Bad Epoll. The Bad Epoll vulnerability carries the identifier CVE-2026-46242.

Technology is Getting Objectively Worse and Less Reliable. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 03, 2026. I recently unpacked a coffee grinder that I had purchased last year (electric ...

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Irene Okpanachi is a Features writer covering Android devices, laptops, portable projectors, VR headsets, software, and AI recorders for Android Police and Talk Android. She has five years' experience ...

AMD's next-gen Zen 6 processors have long been rumored to include a third tier of CPU core, and this all but confirms it.

Learn how to permanently and securely delete files on Linux using shred, fstrim, secure-delete, and btrfs snapshot removal.

Valve has finally released information on the Steam Machine pricing and release timing. Here's how to get on the waitlist and ...

AMD memory encryption is returning to consumer Ryzen 9000 desktop chips after the company reversed a silent AGESA 1.2.7.0 ...

I kind of get it. The attack surface is very, very real. But from a user perspective, if you want Apple Junior behavior and treatment--and it's fine with me if you do--why go with the team playing ...

An estimated one billion persons live with disabilities, of which 80% live in developing nations, where infirmity and disabilities are real drivers of exclusion and poverty. The WHO estimates that, ...

Multiple Dashlane users have been locked out of their accounts following brute-force attacks that attempted logins from distant locations and unknown devices. In a statement to BleepingComputer, the ...

Another Linux kernel flaw has handed local unprivileged users a way to peek at files they should never be able to read, including root-only secrets such as SSH keys. The bug affects multiple LTS ...