Rolling back the Linux kernel can save the day when a bad update breaks your system. It should be done carefully, with backups and verification. Use it to regain a stable state, then address the root ...

At this point, most competitive online multiplayer games on the PC come with some kind of kernel-level anti-cheat software. As we’ve written before, this is software that runs with more elevated ...

Even in the best of times, searching for a first job after college is an exercise in patience, resilience, and coping with rejection. And these are not the best of times. Companies have no idea which ...

Electronic Arts has shared the impressive results of cheat protection in Battlefield 6. The Javelin system, running at the kernel level, has stopped more than 2.4 million cheating attempts since the ...

In brief: Secure Boot, TPM 2.0, and other forms of kernel-level anti-cheat are already notorious for digging deep into users' systems, locking games to Windows, and increasing the risk of serious ...

Modern computing systems rely heavily on operating-system schedulers to allocate CPU time fairly and efficiently. Yet many of these schedulers operate blindly with respect to the meaning of workloads: ...

Rollercoaster Tycoon wasn’t the most fashionable computer game out there in 1999. But if you took a look beneath the pixels—the rickety rides, the crowds of hungry, thirsty, barfing people (and the ...

What if you could strip away the layers of abstraction that operating systems impose and interact directly with your computer’s hardware? Imagine crafting a program where every instruction is executed ...

Adversaries from cybercrime gangs to nation-state cyberattack squads are fine-tuning weaponized AI with the goal of defeating new patches in 3 days or less. The quicker the attack, the more time to ...

OpenAI and Google LLC today disclosed that their latest reasoning models achieved gold-level performance in a recent coding competition. The ICPC, as the event is called, is the world’s most ...