Phoronix reported that July 2026 saw the expiration of the last MPEG-4 Part 2 patent, Valve sponsoring a RADV port to Windows, and Linus Torvalds reaffirming that Linux is not anti-AI. The site publis…
AI lowers the cost of generating implementations from informal requests, removing low-level work but potentially leaving complexity unabstracted, warns a new essay. The piece argues that human annoyan…
Shadowfetch, a new Debian-based Linux distribution designed as a local AI workstation, is in very early development and currently cannot be installed, forcing users to run it from RAM. The distro offe…
Antirez, creator of Redis, argues expert programmers using AI should act like Linus Torvalds with AI as subsystem maintainers, but the author rejects this analogy due to lack of trust in current LLMs.…
Linux 7.2-rc5 was released Sunday with a large patch set, driven in part by AI/LLM agents discovering bugs, according to Linus Torvalds. The release includes extensive networking fixes, audio driver u…
Linus Torvalds told Linux kernel mailing list participants on July 15 that Linux is not an anti-AI project and that those who object to AI-assisted work can fork the kernel or walk away, according to …
Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, told developers who oppose using AI coding tools to fork the project, ending a heated open-source debate. In a Linux mailing list post, Torvalds wrote that decisi…
Debian's General Resolution to ban AI-assisted contributions opened its official discussion period on July 24, 2026. The proposal, filed by Matthias Geiger and Jesse Rhodes, targets direct Debian cont…
Linux creator Linus Torvalds declared Linux is not anti-AI, prompting a rallying cry from anti-AI projects. European code forge Codeberg changed its terms to ban projects mostly written by generative …
Linus Torvalds has firmly endorsed the use of AI tools in Linux kernel development, rejecting ethical objections and grounding the discussion in technical merits. Over 1,200 kernel commits since Septe…
ChatGPT and similar AI code-generation tools are competitive cognitive artifacts that risk diminishing students' programming abilities when the tool is removed, argues a new analysis from the Pickcode…
Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, stated in a July 14th Linux Kernel Mailing List post that the Linux kernel project is not anti-AI and will continue to use AI tools based on technical merit, reje…
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…
A developer built a system that replaces generic AI review with a board of expert personas based on real people like Ken Thompson, Don Norman, and Linus Torvalds, each with documented, citeable princi…
China's open-weight AI models Kimi K3 and Qwen 3.8 are closing the gap with frontier American labs, threatening to undercut the business case for billion-dollar closed models, according to guests on T…
Linux 7.2-rc4 has been released, with Linus Torvalds noting a 'new normal' of a fair number of fixes across the kernel, many uncovered by AI/LLMs. The release candidate includes small fixes, some larg…
A blogger criticizes Linus Torvalds for justifying the use of large language models solely on the basis of utility, arguing that Torvalds and others ignore the moral and ethical implications of the te…
Linus Torvalds declared on July 15 that the Linux kernel project is not anti-AI, telling critics they can fork the code or leave, after AI code-review tool Sashiko found bugs in 53% of recent kernel p…
Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel and git, is employed by the Linux Foundation, a non-profit funded primarily by megacorporations including six AI-focused platinum members (Google, Huawei, F…
Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, declared that AI is a useful tool and that Linux is not an anti-AI project, warning that those who disagree can fork the project or walk away. Speaking on 17 July…