Quantiles of a variable Y conditional on another variable X, when plotted against X, can be a useful descriptive tool. These plots give a quick impression of the functional form of the relation ...

There have been many reports, especially with MacBook Air and other laptop owners, where the Mac OS X "kernel_task" process takes up a large amount of CPU when checked in Activity Monitor. When this ...

While the phrase "640KB RAM ought to be enough for anybody" was falsely attributed to Bill Gates, it definitely outlines a way many of us think about the computing limits we're faced with. At the time ...

After going through eight different release candidates, Linux engineer Linus Torvalds officially announced the release of the Linux 4.8 kernel branch on Monday, marking the end of a long and arduous ...

The makers of systems programming language Rust are looking at how to adapt the language for use in the Linux kernel. Josh Triplett, a former Intel engineer and a lead of the Rust language team, says ...

USB 2.0, about forty times faster than conventional USB, makes its debut in Linux 2.6. The high speed USB devices support device bandwidth of up to 480 megabits per second, compared to 12 mbit/sec of ...

A significant vulnerability has been discovered in all Intel processor chips and it’s going to have a huge impact going forward. The Register first noticed this major design flaw in Linux kernel patch ...

Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 will finally include a Linux kernel and that it will be coming later this year. The announcement was made via a blog post and written by Microsoft program ...