IBM launched "Project Lightwell," a new initiative that establishes a trusted enterprise clearinghouse and a global engineering force to identify and fix software vulnerabilities at scale. The project…
The Model Openness Tool (MOT), presented by Arnaud Le Hors at Open Source Summit North America 2026, aims to help users assess the true openness of large language models (LLMs) that are often misleadi…
Websites like LWN.net are facing a growing scourge of AI scraperbots that indiscriminately download vast amounts of content to feed generative AI training models, overwhelming site resources and degra…
Dillo web browser maintainer Rodrigo Arias Mallo proposed requiring new contributors to submit asciinema recordings of their programming sessions as proof of human authorship, aiming to filter out AI-…
LWN.net has published an article featuring a discussion between Dirk and Linus on artificial intelligence and kernel development. The content is currently behind a paywall for subscribers, with free a…
Linux kernel maintainer Linus Torvalds released prepatch 7.1-rc5 on Sunday, expressing dissatisfaction with the volume of trivial driver fixes included at this late stage in the release cycle. Torvald…