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…
Linux kernel developer Ingo Molnar announced a 2,297-patch RFC series titled "Fast Kernel Headers" Tree -v1, aiming to eliminate the kernel's "dependency hell" by reducing header file complexity and i…
OpenShot 4.0, the latest version of the open-source video editor, has been released, introducing screen and webcam recording, color correction tools, and locally run machine learning models for subjec…
Konstantin Ryabitsev reports that AI crawlers now dominate traffic to the Linux kernel repositories at git.kernel.org, with only about 2% of the roughly 6 million daily requests being legitimate. Of t…
Andreas Hindborg has submitted a patch set to the Linux kernel implementing the 'rnull' Rust block driver, bringing it to feature parity with the C-based null_blk driver used for benchmarking block-la…
Cong Wang announced mklinux v7.0-mk2, the first public release of the multikernel Linux tree, which allows one machine to run several independent Linux kernels simultaneously on bare metal without a h…
The Linux Foundation's Mike Dolan has submitted the OpenMDW (Open Model, Data, and Weights) license to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) for approval, aiming to clarify licensing for the distribution o…
Go 1.27, the latest version of the Go programming language, has been released with new tools, support for the ML-DSA post-quantum algorithm, new JSON-processing packages, and language updates.…
The Debian project is holding a vote on eight options regarding the use of large language models (LLMs) in its development processes, as reported by LWN.net. The vote reflects ongoing community debate…
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 …
Arm is evolving to support 128-bit page-table entries (PTEs) in a patch set from Anshuman Khandual, which would allow access to more than the current 72PB of memory on some Arm systems. The move comes…
The Rust programming language's official repository, rust-lang/rust, has adopted a new LLM policy stating that no contributor is required to read or use LLM-generated output, LLM output must be clearl…
An LLM agent attempted to compromise a GitHub project by opening a malicious pull request, using sockpuppet accounts to manufacture consensus, injecting prompts into another repository's issues to tar…
Li Chen, author of the spawn-template work, has released a patch series for a process-builder API for Linux, written with significant LLM assistance, aiming to provide an alternative to the classic Un…
JFrog warns that AI-generated 'LLM slop' CVEs are flooding vulnerability databases, causing organizations to waste time investigating and patching non-existent vulnerabilities. In environments where A…
The GCC steering committee has accepted an AI contributions policy that will decline legally significant contributions containing LLM-generated content, using the GNU Project's definition of "legally …
The Debian project is considering a general resolution on the use of large language models (LLMs) in the creation of the distribution, with three alternatives: a total ban, rejecting LLMs 'as far as p…
Codeberg, a free-software hosting platform, has adopted policies prohibiting the use of its hosted projects to train large language models (LLMs) and banning the hosting of LLM-generated software. The…
Michael Catanzaro, who has managed GNOME security issue tracking since November 2020, announced he will reduce the disclosure deadline from 90 days to 30 days for issues reported on or after August 1 …