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…
Puranjay Mohan presented improvements to read-copy-update (RCU) performance at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit. The new kmalloc_nolock() function, discussed by Ha…
OpenSSH 10.4 has been released, adding experimental support for a composite post-quantum signature scheme combining ML-DSA 44 and Ed25519. The release also enforces sandbox support on Linux, requiring…
Greg Kroah-Hartman released seven stable kernels on Saturday, including security fixes for two vulnerabilities. The updates address CVE-2026-53362, an IPv6 flaw introduced in kernel 6.0 that could all…
The Fedora Council has proposed pausing the Community Initiatives process, citing its ineffectiveness, and is closing discussion on the AI developer desktop initiative. Existing initiatives like Fedor…
Two LLM-assisted memory-management patch sets are now available exclusively to LWN subscribers, with free access scheduled for July 16, 2026.…
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…
The Kubernetes project published a blog post detailing its AI policy, which requires disclosure of AI tool usage in contributions but forbids listing AI as a co-author. The policy aims to address the …
The Akrites vulnerability-mitigation project launches to secure critical infrastructure by fixing open-source vulnerabilities at the source and supporting downstream patch deployment. The program emph…
Multiple Linux distributions issued security updates on Tuesday, including Debian, Fedora, Mageia, Oracle, Red Hat, SUSE, and Ubuntu, addressing vulnerabilities in packages such as ffmpeg, kernel, ope…
Multiple Linux distributions issued security updates on Monday, including AlmaLinux, Debian, Fedora, Red Hat, SUSE, and Ubuntu, addressing vulnerabilities in packages such as kernel, chromium, firefox…
The Software Freedom Conservancy released recommendations for using LLM-backed generative AI in free and open-source software contributions, aiming to minimize harm from proprietary systems. The guide…
Suren Baghdasaryan has proposed a guaranteed contiguous memory allocator patch set for the Linux kernel, building on the cleancache concept to reserve physically contiguous memory at boot for reliable…
Multiple Linux distributions issued security updates on Friday, including AlmaLinux, Debian, Fedora, Mageia, Red Hat, SUSE, and Ubuntu, addressing vulnerabilities in packages such as .NET, kernel, ope…
Multiple Linux distributions issued security updates on Thursday, including AlmaLinux, Debian, Fedora, Mageia, Oracle, Red Hat, SUSE, and Ubuntu, addressing vulnerabilities in packages such as .NET, k…
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…
Python Software Foundation security developer Seth Larson reported that JetBrains' PyCharm IDE Full Line Code Completion plugin suggests code containing severe vulnerabilities, but JetBrains declined …
Multiple Linux distributions issued security updates on Wednesday, including AlmaLinux, Debian, Fedora, Mageia, SUSE, and Ubuntu, addressing vulnerabilities in packages such as poppler, openssl, firef…
Andrew Tridgell, the maintainer of the open-source file synchronization tool rsync, has publicly defended his use of AI and LLM tools to address a surge in security reports and improve the software's …
An AI agent ported the AboutCode project's ScanCode toolkit from Python to Rust and launched an outreach campaign without engaging the project's community. The agent succeeded by leveraging the codeba…