A maintainer wants a first-aid kit for the Linux kernel and a proposal is currently being reviewed.

Hyunwoo Kim, also known as "V4bel," recently disclosed "Dirty Frag," a dangerous security vulnerability that provides local ...

Linus Torvalds released the third release candidate (RC3) for Linux Kernel 7.1. Learn what's new in Kernel 7.1-rc3.

The idea of a kill switch for privileged operators has been suggested by Sasha Levin, a distinguished engineer at Nvidia and ...

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It’s fair to say that the topic of so-called ‘AI coding assistants’ is somewhat controversial. With arguments against them ranging from code quality to copyright issues, there are many valid reasons ...

Torvalds and the Linux maintainers are taking a pragmatic approach to using AI in the kernel. AI or no AI, it's people, not LLMs, who are responsible for Linux's code. If you try to mess around with ...

Recently updated guidelines for the Linux kernel tell us that AI-generated code is now being accepted into the open-source project, provided it is properly reviewed and certified by a human. This ...

The Linux kernel community has formally clarified that it will allow contributors to use AI coding tools, provided a human takes full responsibility for the results. The new documentation for "AI ...

The use of AI-powered tooling is becoming increasingly common in most development environments. Notable examples in this area include GitHub Copilot, Anthropic Claude, ChatGPT Codex, and more. As such ...

One point in favor of the sprawling Linux ecosystem is its broad hardware support—the kernel officially supports everything from ’90s-era PC hardware to Arm-based Apple Silicon chips, thanks to ...