Kernel is a topic tracked in our intelligence system with 5 linked articles.
Infinity raises $15M at a $100M valuation to build a CUDA-style, chip-agnostic kernel software stack for universal AI inference, backed by Touring Capital, Principal VC, and researchers from OpenAI/Anthropic, with 26 employees and a notable customer (D-Matrix).
Gobee transpiles a Go subset to BPF C and emits typed Go bindings, enabling a Go-first workflow for eBPF with fast kernel-version gating and CO-RE support.
A survey of bytecode VMs found in unlikely places (eBPF in Linux, DWARF/GDB expressions, WinRAR’s RarVM, GPU shader interpreters), with concrete numeric specs illustrating their scope and evolution.
FreeBSD SA-26:13.exec discloses a local privilege escalation via execve() (CVE-2026-7270) affecting all supported versions; no workaround, patches released across multiple branches with reboot required.
Linux kernel patch introduces a killswitch: per-function short-circuit mitigation via kprobes with a /sys/kernel/security/killswitch interface, boot-time and runtime engagement, taint tracking, and self-tests—including a CVE-2026-31431 proof-of-concept for AF_ALG AEAD.
Open-source portability and endianness debates are framed as a practical necessity, arguing for broader architecture support and cautioning against anti-portability despite legacy hardware and BE/LE quirks.
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