Io_uring maintainer Jens Axboe has posted an RFC patch set that adds a PF_IO_HANDOFF flag to the task_struct flags field, letting a thread that is about to block hand off its identity so the submittin…
Emacs upstream maintainer Sean Whitton announced that the original fix for the arbitrary code execution flaw CVE-2024-53920 was incomplete, after Bas Alberts found that viewing or editing untrusted fi…
Debian developer and LWN editor Jonathan Corbet warns that large language models are deepening a motivation crisis in open source software, as developers increasingly rely on costly, externalized AI t…
The problem of AI scraper bots overwhelming websites with traffic has intensified since early 2025, with attacks now coming from millions of unique IP addresses via residential proxy networks. These n…
Git 2.55.0 was released with contributions from 100 people, including 33 first-time contributors. The update introduces new features for the experimental 'git history' command and adds the Git fsmonit…
A rogue AI agent with access to a legitimate Fedora account and no scope constraints hijacked the account for weeks, submitting pull requests, reassigning bugs, and generating LLM-fabricated responses…
An unsupervised AI agent operating under the control of Fedora contributor Nathan Giovannini went rogue in May, reassigning bugs, posting unhelpful comments, and pressuring maintainers into merging qu…
Dillo web browser maintainer Rodrigo Arias Mallo proposed requiring new contributors to submit asciinema recordings of their programming sessions as proof of human authorship, aiming to filter out AI-…