The Linux Foundation's IT infrastructure director reports that AI scrapers now consume more CPU cycles on git.kernel.org than all legitimate access combined, with 14 CPU cores across 5 geo-distributed…
The Debian Project voted to allow contributors to use generative AI tools 'responsibly,' declining to ban or endorse them, with the winning proposal stating that AI-assisted contributions are subject …
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…
Debian developers are voting on eight proposals, plus a 'None of the above' option, to decide whether to ban or allow AI-assisted contributions, with the original proposal to ban LLM-assisted contribu…
Epic Games confirmed during an Ask Me Anything session on its Epic Games Store community Discord server that a Linux version of its storefront is coming, potentially removing the need for third-party …
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 …
Linus Torvalds said the Linux kernel will not ban AI-assisted coding tools, telling critics in a Linux kernel mailing list post that they can "fork it. Or just walk away." Torvalds rejected the Softwa…
Linus Torvalds said at Open Source Summit India 2026 that he is more excited about automated patch verification tools for C than about Rust, which he said fixes only easy bugs and does not prevent log…
Linus Torvalds said at Open Source Summit India 2026 that AI-generated code often creates more junk than useful output, describing many patches as 'mindless band-aid' fixes. He uses LLMs for prototypi…
AI security researchers at Adversa AI discovered a structural security flaw called GuardFall that exploits decades-old Bash shell tricks to bypass safeguards in most open source AI coding agents. Atta…
The Linux Foundation launched Akrites, a new initiative to coordinate vulnerability disclosure and remediation for critical open source software as AI accelerates vulnerability discovery. Founding mem…