The Kimwolf botnet, an Android variant of the Aisuru malware, has grown to more than two million hosts, most of them infected ...

Mohammad Shuaib Siddique knows his way around the guts of modern computers. He’s a senior systems software architect who ...

Apple’s leaked internal files suggest it tested a cheaper MacBook using iPhone-class chips. An A15 entry looks like a ...

Abstract: Debugging operating systems running on multiple privilege levels is challenging due to symbol table inconsistencies caused by context switching. Conventional debuggers fail to manage ...

With the Linux kernel 6.14 out now, I noted in my quick-look overview about a bug that was fixed for the Steam Deck OLED model. Collabora have given a little more info on their work for this issue and ...

It took its own sweet time -- over 20 years! -- but real-time Linux finally made it into the mainline Linux kernel. It's baked inside Linux kernel version 6.12. This is a major new release. Linux 6.12 ...

Abstract: To diagnose performance problems in production systems, many OS kernel-level monitoring and analysis tools have been proposed. Using low level kernel events provides benefits in efficiency ...

An RTOS is a specialized operating system designed to handle time-critical tasks with precision and reliability. Unlike general-purpose operating systems like Windows or macOS, an RTOS is built to ...

For the first time ever, a JTAG-based debugger is publicly available to connect WinDbg to an x86 target to debug the Windows kernel. The Windows Debugger (WinDbg) is used widely to perform kernel mode ...

It used to be that building the Linux kernel was not easy. Testing and debugging were even worse. Nowadays, it is reasonably easy to build a custom kernel and test or debug it using virtualization.