Linus Torvalds posted a Linux kernel patch series on October 12, branch noref-filemap-read-with-llm, whose cover letter states the code, test programs and review were done with an LLM coding assistant…
Linus Torvalds pushed a branch named `noref-filemap-read-with-llm` to his own Linux repository containing eight patches that rework the page cache so folios are freed only after an RCU grace period, c…
The KNOD project, short for "in-kernel network offload device," reported at the Linux Plumbers Conference in Prague that it reached up to 70 million packets per second on an XDP workload and 80 Gbit/s…
Google's Sashiko AI code-review system has completed more than 191,000 patch reviews across 99 Linux kernel mailing lists in under a year, and 463 Linux kernel CVEs assigned this year cite the tool, G…
IBM and Red Hat announced that their AI-powered Lightwell initiative has identified and helped remediate more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used Java libraries, and that Lightw…
Ladybird spent a week in September 2026 working with Trail of Bits security engineers through the OpenAI-sponsored Patch the Planet program, using a swarm of frontier OpenAI models to find security is…
Intel suspended its paid bug bounty program on Intigriti, which had offered awards ranging from $500 to $100,000 USD for hardware, software, firmware, and open-source vulnerabilities, and launched a r…
GNOME 51 shipped on September 16, six months after GNOME 50, removing support for legacy NVIDIA driver interfaces so the desktop communicates with the driver exclusively through modern, standard graph…
Void Linux contributor Andrea Brancaleoni, known as thypon on GitHub, orphaned 113 packages — including Alacritty, Clementine, fscrypt, Intel thermald and Kubernetes — after a dispute over the distrib…
Rustls 0.23.44, released Monday, enables post-quantum ML-DSA certificates by default with the aws-lc-rs provider, but public web PKI certificate authorities do not yet support the algorithm, limiting …
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…
Linus Torvalds used AI to help fix a one-line bug in the Intel Xe graphics driver for Battlemage G21 cards, which caused the GDM display manager to restart endlessly. The debugging process required 24…
Linux 7.2-rc7, announced by Linus Torvalds, contains an unusually large number of bug fixes, which he attributes to the 'new normal' of AI/LLM coding and review agents. The release candidate includes …
Cloudflare on August 5 open-sourced Cloudflare OS, a browser-based workspace for AI agents, applications, and enterprise work, under the Apache 2.0 license. The platform, built on Cloudflare Workers, …
Arch Linux faced two waves of malicious package attacks in the Arch User Repository (AUR) in 2026, affecting more than 1,500 packages in the first wave and dozens more in the second, prompting the dis…
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…
A new open-source Linux desktop called Starling, written largely via the Claude AI assistant and using the Swift programming language with its own Wayland compositor in C, has been announced after six…
A TechPowerUp forum user who goes by Fouquin posted an in-depth review of the upcoming Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra featuring the NVIDIA RTX Spark Arm-based SoC, after finding the laptop on the road…
AMD extended its EPYC server-CPU roadmap through 2030 at Advancing AI 2026 on July 23, confirming Zen 7-based Florence for 2028 and Zen 8-based Ravenna for 2030. The Zen 7 generation will include Flor…
AMD announced the EPYC 9006 "Venice" server processors at Advancing AI 2026, promising up to 256 cores per socket, support for DDR5-8000 and MRDIMM-12800 memory, PCIe Gen 6, and roughly 20% more perfo…