CVE-2026-20253 is a CVSS 9.8 pre-auth flaw in Splunk Enterprise's PostgreSQL sidecar service. An unauthenticated attacker can ...

The coolest database system companies of the 2026 Big Data 100 include ClickHouse, Couchbase, EDB, MariaDB, MongoDB, Neo4j, ...

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 ...

An exploit has been published for a local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed “Copy Fail” that impacts Linux kernels released since 2017, allowing an unprivileged local attacker to gain root ...

France is trying to move on from Microsoft Windows. The country said it plans to move some of its government computers currently running Windows to the open source operating system Linux to further ...

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An AWS engineer reported on April 3 that PostgreSQL throughput dropped to roughly half on Linux 7.0, with benchmark data tracing the cause to a deliberate kernel change that removed the PREEMPT_NONE ...

There is no doubt that Linux has come a long way in the last five years, thanks in large part to Valve opening the door to gaming with Proton. Linux has always been a capable operating system, but its ...

While vector databases still have many valid use cases, organizations including OpenAI are leaning on PostgreSQL to get things done. In a blog post on Thursday, OpenAI disclosed how it is using the ...

The takeaway: As numerous controversies and Microsoft's relentless push for generative AI damage Windows 11's reputation, Linux continues to make strides in performance and compatibility. Handheld PCs ...

SQL Server 2025 reaches enterprise readiness with GA support on RHEL 10 and Ubuntu 24.04. Cumulative Update 1 improves SQL Server 2025 reliability, performance and security based on early feedback.