Linus Torvalds announced to the world that he used AI to write code for the Linux kernel. Who’d thought it? Well, me for one.

"The code, the test programs, the review behind the list above and the first draft of this text were done with an LLM coding ...

AI-generated slop code has been a plague for some open-source projects, namely but not only Gentoo Linux, Curl, and Ghostty, limiting or outright banning LLM-created contributions. And yet, just like ...

Linux kernel developers are reviewing a proposal for an emergency risk mitigation mechanism (“Killswitch”) that would allow administrators to disable vulnerable kernel functions at runtime. The ...

Sashiko that was built by Google engineers for agentic review of the Linux kernel code changes and powered by Google's AI ...

Simon is a Computer Science BSc graduate who has been writing about technology since 2014, and using Windows machines since 3.1. After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to ...

Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.2-rc7 on August 9, 2026, and the seventh release candidate arrived far heavier than the kernel project usually sees one week before a stable debut. The build carries ...

NAPA, Calif. — In the immortal words of song developer Pete Townshend, “Well, who are you? (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?) I really wanna know!” Linux kernel maintainers have the same question: Who ...

A critical Linux kernel flaw let a guest VM read host memory in Vercel's live sandboxes; host code execution was shown only ...