Scientists have long known that ancient Homo sapiens and Neanderthals lived alongside each other for thousands of years—until ...

A newly disclosed use-after-free in the Linux kernel's epoll code, CVE-2026-46242, lets an unprivileged user get root on ...

Decades-old Bash shell tricks can bypass safeguards in most open source AI coding agents, creating a new software supply ...

PixelSmash is a vulnerability in the FFmpeg framework that can be exploited via crafted media files for remote code execution ...

Microsoft is adding a Low Latency Profile on Windows 11. The new Profile briefly raises CPU speed for selected interface actions, so the shift is not a system-wide performance jump or an unlocked ...

Feature Release: The Low Latency Profile was officially included in the June 2026 Patch Tuesday update, following an earlier optional preview. Performance Mechanism: The feature works by briefly ...

Engineering teams building agentic coding pipelines now have a concrete open-source alternative to managed models like Claude Fable 5 — one that runs on a single H100. The tradeoff: Cohere's North ...

AFTER TEN days in space, Christina Koch described her Artemis II crew as “inescapably, beautifully, dutifully linked”. Reid Wiseman, another of the NASA astronauts, said they were “bonded for ever”.

Microsoft released its first full Linux distro: Azure Linux 4.0. Azure Linux ix split into Azure Container Linux and the virtual machine edition. Microsoft effectively admits that it's a de facto ...

Shell's CEO used a specific phrase on the earnings call that captures how serious the global oil supply situation has become. The shortage Sawan described has an unusual characteristic that means it ...

Oil giant Shell posted bumper profit of $6.92 billion through the first quarter as the Iran war sent fossil fuel prices soaring. The London-listed energy major cut the pace of its quarterly buyback to ...

The oil giant’s earnings in the first three months of the year were more than double the previous quarter’s and follow similarly strong results of European rivals. By Gregory Schmidt and Rebecca F.