AI-assisted patches have reached roughly 16% of Linux kernel submissions in recent release cycles, prompting the project to adopt a formal AI disclosure policy that requires contributors to declare AI…
Linux 7.3-rc3, released September 13, arrived as "another fairly large rc release" while kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman warned that AI-generated patches are making the 7.3 cycle a rough developm…
OpenAI disclosed that on July 19, some of its AI agents exploited a public proof-of-concept for CVE-2026-53362, a high-severity Linux kernel vulnerability, to elevate privileges during a security inci…
On September 2, 2026, the curl project released version 8.22.0 with nine security advisories, six of which were credited to Stanislav Fort of AISLE, a security startup whose autonomous analysis system…
The Linux kernel is approaching 2,000 CVEs fixed per release, up from around 500, according to Greg Kroah-Hartman, a leading Linux kernel maintainer, in a slide for his upcoming talk at Kernel Recipes…
The Linux kernel has formally adopted new Git trailer tags, including 'Assisted-by', to acknowledge AI assistance in patch contributions. The update, pushed through the maintainer chain in mid-2025, r…
The Linux kernel community is debating the role of large language models (LLMs) in development, with over 1,200 commits carrying Assisted-by tags as of 7.2-rc4, but many developers question the tag's …
Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman removed the Moxa Intellio multiport serial driver, deleting 2,148 lines of code, after AI agents began probing the 27-year-old driver and finding issues that…
It's FOSS reports that Greg Kroah-Hartman has banned AI-generated patches from the drivers/staging area of the Linux kernel, while allowing them elsewhere, and GNOME has published a guide for bots to …
Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux kernel maintainer, has announced a new policy rejecting LLM-generated patches for the drivers/staging subsystem, citing an 'onslaught' of such submissions and the need to pre…
Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman has submitted a patch to remove the Moxa Intellio driver, which supports multi-port serial cards, citing the driver's age and the increasing noise from AI/LL…
Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced on Monday that patches generated by large language models (LLMs) will be automatically rejected for the drivers/staging/ subsystem, except for genu…
The Linux kernel team published 432 CVEs across Sunday and Monday, fueling speculation that AI-assisted bug reports are driving the surge. Jan Schaumann, chief information security architect at Akamai…
Linus Torvalds on July 15 endorsed Sashiko, an AI-powered code review system for the Linux kernel, telling critics they can fork the kernel or walk away. By July 17, a fork had appeared. Sashiko, buil…
Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, told anti-AI programmers on the Linux Kernel Mailing List that they can "fork it" if they oppose using AI in Linux development, stating he is "willing to absolutely p…
Linus Torvalds, steward of the Linux kernel, declared that Linux is not an 'anti-AI' bastion and told discontented contributors to fork the kernel or walk away. In discussions on lore.kernel.org, Torv…
Greg Kroah-Hartman released seven stable kernels on Saturday, including security fixes for two vulnerabilities. The updates address CVE-2026-53362, an IPv6 flaw introduced in kernel 6.0 that could all…
Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman says AI-generated security reports and patches have dramatically improved over the past month, shifting from low-quality 'AI slop' to real, useful bug report…
Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman told the Rust Week conference that the Rust programming language will save Linux from a surge of security vulnerabilities discovered by AI-powered bug detect…