Excited to share the KDA: Kernel Design Agents that... powers HAN Lab Kernel Mafia top ranking #1~3 kernels at Kernel Contest🚀🚀🚀 Thanks to agents, everyone can be a "kernel bro" in 2026: By adapting the KDA, the team ranked #1 in MoE, #2 in DSA, and #3 in GDN in the Pure Agent track at MLSys FlashInfer Kernel Contest – especially given the fact that the main participant (dongyun zou) has only written ~400 LoC triton and 0 lines of CUDA in 2026. The core philosophy here is to leverage Humanize (the best harness framework) to let the agent run autonomously for as long as possible. By minimizing human involvement and input, and placing full trust in the agent, we can achieve kernel performance that nears SOTA levels. HAN Lab Mafia Solution to MLSys’26 Kernel Contest: KDA Github:show more

The Kernel community is leveling up. More involvement. More... impact. More rewards. 100,000 $KERNEL tokens up for grabs. Ready to earn by contributing? Jump in now 🍿show more

Gamers when they see the word "kernel" but they... don't understand that you can go deeper than kernel mode with blumber schlumpkie mode (enabled in the BIOS)show more

An analysis of CVE-2026-21236 - A heap based buffer... overflow in the Microsoft Windows Kernel afd.sys - was just published by Emily L a recent secondment with my team EDG! Nice work for her first triage of a kernel memory corruption bug!show more

I found a vulnerability in OpenVPN’s Windows kernel driver... involving a use-after-free / double-free condition, resulting in a reproducible BSOD. I built a working PoC and reported the issue to the OpenVPN team. Currently waiting for a fix before sharing technical details. #openvpn #bsod #uaf #research #vulnerable #kernelshow more

Kernel Kollective is back for Sprint #3! 🍿 This... round brings even more fire: ✦ 30,000 $KERNEL in rewards ✦ Brand-new quests across Kelp & Gain ✦ A month-long sprint to rise through the ranks (ends Oct 31) If you thought the last sprint was competitive, this one sets the bar higher.show more

Our agent autonomously found this kernel 0day and its... exploit works on the #KCTF target. We are building to find vulnerabilities systematically, not just shadow bugs. See the quoted post below—comment "depthfirst" and we'll send you a free agent to try out.show more

or put another way... they found 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 many CVEs... in the Linux kernelshow more

Most people use Linux every day. But Very few... understand what actually happens after they press the power button. >>>Here’s the sequences Linux goes through before you get the login screen. Power button pressed → BIOS or UEFI initializes hardware and runs POST. Firmware locates the bootloader from disk. Bootloader loads the Linux kernel and initramfs into RAM. Kernel decompresses and takes control of the CPU. Memory management and the scheduler are initialized. Device drivers load to communicate with hardware. Temporary root filesystem mounts from initramfs. PID 1 starts as systemd and userspace begins. System services and daemons start in order. Login prompt or GUI becomes available. You run a command and it becomes a process with a PID. Process runs in user mode with limited privileges. When hardware access is needed, a system call is made. CPU switches from user mode to kernel mode. Kernel validates the request and executes through drivers. Result is returned back to user space. Scheduler continuously allocates CPU time across processes. Virtual memory isolates and protects processes. Filesystem manages data abstraction over storage. Network stack processes packets inside the kernel. Linux is the kernel coordinating hardware, processes, memory, and security through strict privilege control.show more

🧃 Introducing stereOS: a Linux based operating system hardened... and purpose built for AI agents. It's clear that agents need an ACTUAL operating system (not what people are calling an "OS") to witness the full breadth and depth of their capabilities while mitigating the blast radius of autonomous, untrusted actors. But there are so many problems with AI sandboxes today: * Going out to the apple store and buying a mac mini will never scale and is way too expensive (obviously) * Running in Docker is too restrictive (agents can't stand up their own container infrastructure, no sub virtualization, docker-in-docker is very broken) * Firecracker strips all the hardware so GPU PCIe passthrough, secure boot, FIPs, etc. is out of the question. * Native VMs are too fat and the overhead of 1 agent per VM is too much. stereOS takes a different approach: it's a full NixOS system that you boot and then kick off agent sandboxes inside with gVisor + /nix/store namespace mounting. Each agent gets their own kernel and the /nix/store is read only by nature. Even if the agent was somehow able to escape the gVisor virtual kernel, they'd land on the NixOS system as the "agent" user! Not your actual hardware!! If you want to take a defense-in-depth approach, we support "native" agents that run at the system level kicked off by our `agentd` utility. These agents, on their own, can manage and kick off other sub agents using the internal sandboxing mechanisms. Today, we're open sourcing all of this: * stereOS: our purpose built Linux OS - * masterblaster: client utility to launch, manage, and orchestrate agents - * stereosd: the stereOS system control plane daemon - * agentd: the stereOS system agent management daemon - Give it a try, throw us a star, and let me know what you think 🧃⭐️show more

KernelDAO Airdrop Season 1 wrapped up with a bang!... 🌟 Highlights: ✧ 350K+ participants ✧ 2.1B+ Kernel Points earned ✧ 10% of total $KERNEL supply allocated Dive in! 🧵show more

There’s almost too much to unpack in this corn... rap on the Macys Day Parade 🤦🏼‍♀️ but the little kernel in this life lesson is… in order to make it in the world and POP…you’re gonna have to do your “corn dance” at some point. #Shucked 🌽show more

GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499) is a 15yr old kernel 0-day we... used in IonStack full chain exploit. Everything around you, as long as it runs Linux, from IoT to mobile to desktop, is affected. Read how we won $92,337 bug bounty with GhostLock and see our exploit on Github. Link belowshow more

1/ [BIG NEWS] Restaking #Bitcoin on BNB Chain is... now possible! 🎉 💪 Finally, BTC holders can unlock the benefits of restaking on BNB Chain. Supercharged by KernelDAO. Be one of the first to get a 6x Seeds boost + 1.25x Kernel Points Boost! 👉show more

Replit, Vercel, and OpenAI have built very cool agent-native... applications, but nobody else has passed the demo stage. Building agents that work is complex. Teams aren't shipping agents because we don't have good tooling yet (and most of us don't know how to do this well.) A couple of days ago, the CopilotKit🪁 team announced a collaboration with . You can now use LangGraph with CoAgents to build agent-native applications, and here is everything you need to know about that: CoAgents is fully open-source, and you can use it to do the following: • Human-in-the-loop to steer and correct the agent • Stream intermediate agent state • Real-time state sharing between the agent and the application • Agentic generative UI to build trust that the agent is on the right path Start this GitHub Repository: Thanks to the team for giving me early access and collaborating with me on this post.show more