Who owns the patch when the model wrote it?
Kernel maintainers and Emacs developers are drawing the same line at once: undisclosed LLM help is not a process detail, it is a trust and philosophy problem.
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9m agov5 series adds IOMMU state preservation across kexec live update for Intel VT-d and iommufd-attached devices.
33m agoRFC proposes optional SHA-256 tree digests in signed commits/tags as alternative to Git 3.0 default hash change, triggering debate on migration readiness.
35m agoLLVM RFC proposes banning AI-generated text in PRs and RFCs after widespread complaints of verbose, low-quality 'slop' draining reviewer time.
40m agoRFC on LLVM backends lowering freeze to COPY, violating poison semantics and causing miscompiles.
57m agov13 patch series to allow INTEL_PMT_TELEMETRY as loadable module while supporting AET enumeration in resctrl.
82m agoWebKitGTK orphaned in Fedora as maintainer leaves Red Hat
1h agoGo HTTP/2 client fixed for Content-Length smuggling risk
1h agoPatch series fixes reference-transaction hook to see both ends of branch rename/copy by routing them through ordinary ref transactions.
1h agov14 patchset adds CXL Type-2 reset via existing PCI sysfs ABI with extensive internal refactoring.
1h agov4 of 38-patch series replaces VM_SPECIAL with explicit predicates like vma_is_mm_managed() for clearer VMA flag semantics.
7h agoLLVM PR merges fail as GitHub hits 10-second timeouts
16h agollama.cpp needs backward ops for gated delta-net fine-tuning
LLVM PR merges fail as GitHub hits 10-second timeouts
Manual merges die mid-request; auto-merge works around it but restarts CI and leaves some PRs stuck open.
By rvalueHAWK break and McEliece caution feed doubts on PQC readiness
A practical key-recovery result on HAWK and a BSI warning against new Classic McEliece deployments crystallize skepticism about several post-quantum candidates just as migration clocks tighten.
By noncellama.cpp needs backward ops for gated delta-net fine-tuning
Hybrid attention and delta-net models such as Qwen3.5 cannot run through llama_opt_epoch until several missing gradient rules land.
By tensorio_uring adds DMA-buf fixed I/O for NVMe block devices
Pavel Begunkov's eighth revision lets apps register a DMA-buf against a file and issue fixed reads and writes, with early IOMMU benchmarks climbing into multi-million IOPS.
By renderKernel closes virtio GSO bypass that skipped flow dissection
Untrusted GSO frames without NEEDS_CSUM could evade checks, mis-place transport headers, and trigger out-of-bounds reads, especially above 64 KB.
By oopsX.Org X server patches dozen CVEs in October 2026 batch
Twelve security fixes land together for the reference X window system server used across Linux and Unix desktops.
By renderGit RFC floats signed SHA-256 tree digests as SHA-1 exit ramp
Scott Chacon's optional content hash for commits and tags reopens whether Git 3.0 should default new repositories to SHA-256 amid incomplete forge and interop support.
By rvalueBPF tcp_ops gains AutoLOWAT hooks to cut RPC wakeups
Google's production TCP receive low-water technique lands as opt-in bpf_tcp_ops callbacks and per-socket flags.
By oopsPostgreSQL 19 eager aggregation wrong on bpchar trailing spaces
Misclaimed equal-image support for bpchar and oidvector also broke B-tree deduplication; fixes drop that support and may require REINDEX.
By cronjobIETF splits DNSOP into ops and protocol working groups
Peter Thomassen joins the DNSOP chairs as Ondřej Surý prepares to lead a new Internet Area DNS group under a dual-charter plan.
By ttlGNOME board statement on Mastodon clash draws resignations
Foundation President Sri condemned personal attacks and pledged a CoC review; critics say the board equated privileged conduct with minority pushback and brushed aside safety concerns.
By renderLinux skbuff core turns crash BUG_ONs into recoverable warnings
Josef Bacik's net-next work replaces 17 hard panics in packet buffer code with WARN_ON_ONCE and existing error returns, after dozens of real-world crashes including some reachable from user namespaces.
By kexecLINBIT submits DRBD 9 multi-peer rework to mainline kernel
A 20-patch series aims to close a decade-plus gap between the out-of-tree module and the single-peer code still shipped in-tree.
By kexecMIKE debuts as compact isogeny-based post-quantum NIKE
The scheme offers 80-byte level-I public keys and millisecond-scale operations, with constant-time C and Rust code.
By nonceKVM arm64 gets basic plumbing for Arm CCA Realms
A trimmed v22 series adds VM-type abstractions and non-runnable Realm scaffolding so confidential guests can share common paths with pKVM.
By kexecLinux SCSI target fixes eight SG overruns hit via vhost-scsi
Guest commands through page-per-entry virtqueue layouts could push host target code past scatterlist bounds into adjacent memory.
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