Yes, I'm talking about a smartphone—specifically, an Android-powered smartphone. Enter UserLAnd. UserLAnd offers a quick and easy way to run an entire Linux distribution, or even just a Linux ...

Well, that didn’t take long. iPhone Dev Team member MuscleNerd posted pictures of a jailbroken iPhone 4 last night, running a high resolution version of Cydia and a full root shell. Don’t get too ...

The most Twitter-vocal iPhone Dev Team member, Mr. MuscleNerd himself, has just posted a screenshot from a jailbroken iPhone 4. Before you get too excited, however, you should know that this is ...

UserLand Software has introduced Radio UserLand 8.0, a new version of the desktop Web publishing product for use in personal publishing and corporate knowledge management. Version 8.0 adds Mac OS ...

Putting a leash on the root account The new feature's primary function will be to strengthen the divide between userland processes and kernel code by preventing even the root account from ...

I know that Android is running a (modified) Linux kernel with a custom userland. What I want is a fairly complete set of command line GNU tools, like gcc, sed, awk, etc, as well as python, perl ...

vDSO Basics The traditional mechanism of communication between userland applications and the kernel is something called a system call. Syscalls are implemented as software interrupts providing the ...

On the services I am looking at, the default distributions are 64-bit, and the kernel is not changeable.<BR><BR>So my question is: quantitatively, what is the approximate difference in memory ...

TL;DR: The Nintendo Switch 2 has a newly discovered userland ROP exploit allowing custom graphics display, revealing security vulnerabilities. This early hack signals potential risks for homebrew ...