The overall volume of kernel CVEs continues to climb: one security commentary noted the first 16 days of 2025 already saw 134 ...

In many cases, errant USB devices can cause repeated kernel panics. A new batch of these conflicts appears to have cropped up under Mac OS X 10.4.4 -- typical with iterative Mac OS X releases. One ...

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Google's browser-centric Chrome OS hasn't reached the market yet, but development is progressing and the platform is attracting the interest of a growing number of hardware makers. Although the ...

For the last decade or so, I have heard much about the 'superior' BeOS. To this day, a successor lives on in 'Haiku'. Couldn't most of the feel of BeOS be achieved with the proper Desktop Environment, ...

Build notes leaked on the web of a prerelease version of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard indicate that the software only supports enabling its new 64-bit kernel on certain machines, including the Xserve, ...

Microsoft hearts Linux and all, but the company is reaching a new level. In a slew of security news this week, Microsoft unveiled an operating system product -- not an internal system, but an ...

Over the past year, Google has been working on a wholly new operating system named Fuchsia. Back in May, we got our first look at the current UI for Fuchsia OS, while we also know a bit about the ...

In OS X you may find the process "kernel_task" taking up a large amount of RAM. Here is why this is happening and what you can do about it. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac user for ...