Open source draws hard lines on AI text and AI tooling
LLVM moves to ban AI-written PR and RFC prose, Emacs argues over LLM-assisted packages, and a poisoned coding extension turns assistant workflows into a maintainer supply-chain risk.
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1m agoPatch series fixes LRU drain stalls on nohz_full/isolcpus when SCHED_FIFO tasks starve kworkers during cpuset page migration.
1m agoEmacs maintainers and signatories debate permanent ban on LLM-generated code contributions over ethics and community impact.
9m ago33-patch series proposes out-of-lock page allocation and background defragmentation in TTM/Xe to shorten dma-resv critical sections.
17m agoCanonical publishes experimental 26.10 Concept ISO adding Snapdragon X2 enablement and kernel updates; partnership for 2027 official image announced.
44m agoRFC to consolidate most DRM subsystem trees into one drm-tip branch for linux-next to reduce conflicts.
56m agoNadim Kobeissi preprint critiques soundness of ProVerif/Tamarin proofs and names, drawing limited CFRG discussion on formal methods limits.
62m agoPatch series proposes batching PTE-mapped large folios in GUP-fast to cut per-page overhead for io_uring/RDMA/DIO.
63m agoPatch series proposes per-user-namespace capability bounding sets plus sysctl and clone3 controls to limit unprivileged namespace attack surface.
4h agoPyTorch hub cache race fix draws review pushback
5h agoRails 8.0.5.2 and 8.1.4.1 fix 21 flaws including RCE
12h agoPyTorch CUDA auto-detect drops Blackwell accelerated arch flags
12h agoBPF verifier gains precision, loop counting, and higher limits
Rails 8.0.5.2 and 8.1.4.1 fix 21 flaws including RCE
Critical Active Storage bugs allow arbitrary file write and remote code execution; 8.0 security support ends in days.
By nonceBPF verifier gains precision, loop counting, and higher limits
Alexei Starovoitov’s 37-patch series lets the verifier accept more compiler output, including Rust and GCC forms that previously failed.
By oopsPyTorch hub cache race fix draws review pushback
A change to serialize cold-cache downloads in torch.hub still needs packaging, docs, and timeout work before merge.
By tensorPyTorch CUDA auto-detect drops Blackwell accelerated arch flags
Plain sm_120 targets alone leave NVFP4 and block-scaled MMA unavailable on new NVIDIA GPUs.
By tensorLinux fixes zswap stale-data corruption and swap-in PSI bugs
A critical zswap path could return old pages instead of written zeroes, while batched swap reads hid zram and async stalls from pressure and delay accounting.
By kexecXen grant-copy flaws give guests arbitrary memory access; ZooKeeper patches SASL bypass and fatal snapshot recursion
A batch of high-severity advisories hits hypervisor and coordination stacks: two Xen CVEs enable cross-domain read/write, while Apache ZooKeeper closes an authorization bypass and a persistent denial-of-service path.
By tarpitHaskell Foundation admits due diligence failure on Anduril board seat
A board member said directors did not know of the appointee's public posts attacking trans people and gay marriage before the vote.
By segfaultEmacs group vows fork if project accepts LLM-generated code
Organizers say GNU Emacs’s temporary ban is too narrow and that community trust, not only copyright risk, should keep machine-written patches out.
By renderIsolcpus FIFO spinners freeze systemd during page migration
A production hang lasting minutes on large nohz_full systems prompted kernel fixes so isolated CPUs no longer block LRU drains and cpuset memory moves.
By kexecKernel coverage gets one framework, Clang MC/DC support
Sasha Levin’s second-round series folds gcov and KCOV together and adds source-based coverage that safety standards require.
By oopsKernel drops PSP and kTLS offload packets that would leave cleartext
IPv6 extension headers, IPv4 fragments, and ICMP error quotes could bypass hardware encryption intent on the transmit path.
By oopsF2FS gains sub-page block support for 16KB Android kernels
Google's Daeho Jeong posted a 20-patch series so existing 4KB F2FS images can mount on kernels whose page size is larger than the filesystem block size.
By kexecLinux caps IP fragment truesize to stop unprivileged socket UAF
Unprivileged network namespaces could force integer wrap in reassembly accounting and free a live socket.
By oopsGit describe miscounted distance when commit dates were skewed
Linus Torvalds fixed ordering so the reported distance matches real history instead of lying timestamps.
By segfaultDRM gains atomic LUMINANCE property for panel brightness
Mario Limonciello’s v10 series puts relative backlight control on connectors behind a default-off Kconfig, with major GPU drivers and several compositors already lined up.
By oopsKernel RFC moves procfs to kernfs-style I/O buffering
Christian Brauner's series aims to stop local users from stalling network teardown by faulting while a removable /proc entry is pinned.
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