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Bots are eating git.kernel.org: only 2% of requests come from humans
Konstantin Ryabitsev laid out the numbers: the Linux kernel repositories are bombarded with roughly 6 million requests a day, and almost all of them come from AI scrapers.
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openKylin 3.0 is out: Linux kernel 7.0, post-quantum cryptography and AI at the core of the system
The Chinese openKylin project has unveiled a major update to its distribution. Version 3.0 has leapt from the Linux 6.6 kernel straight to 7.0 and is betting on built-in artificial intelligence and secure cryptography.
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Debian Endorses “Responsible Use” of Generative AI
Debian developers have wrapped up their vote on a General Resolution setting out the project's AI policy, choosing an option that permits the use of generative tools as long as the usual quality requirements are met.
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The Linux Kernel Is Nearing 2,000 CVEs per Release — Blame the Neural Nets
As LLMs analyzing the Linux kernel source code have spread, the number of vulnerabilities fixed per release has quadrupled. Greg Kroah-Hartman shared a slide from his upcoming talk at Kernel Recipes 2026.
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Chris Mason Leaves Meta and Steps Down as Btrfs Maintainer
Btrfs creator Chris Mason is wrapping up his work at Meta and formally relinquishing his duties as the project's maintainer, while staying on as a code reviewer.
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Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund to Invest Half a Million Euros in Flatpak
The Sovereign Tech Agency will channel €508,640 into hardening Flatpak's sandbox and developing new portals. The work is due to be completed by the end of 2027.
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CISA Adds Six Exploited Vulnerabilities to Its KEV Catalog, Including a Citrix NetScaler Flaw
The U.S. agency CISA has added six new entries to its list of actively exploited vulnerabilities — ranging from a fresh Citrix NetScaler flaw to old holes in Linux, SQL Server and Red Hat utilities.
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Armbian 26.8: rewritten installer and bootable UEFI images
The distribution for ARM and RISC-V single-board computers gets a new installer, a live ISO with UEFI support, and Linux 7.1 as the default kernel.
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LibreOffice 26.8: a faster Writer, cell shuffling in Calc and new chart types
The semi-annual update of the free LibreOffice office suite, version 26.8, is out. Among the new features are faster handling of large documents, experimental support for Chartex charts and improved compatibility with Microsoft formats.
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Google Experiments with Packaging Chrome in the Flatpak Format
Google engineers have added experimental support for packaging Chrome and Chromium as Flatpaks, but they aren't yet promising official maintenance of the format.
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Multikernel Linux: multiple kernels on one machine without a hypervisor
The first public release of the multikernel Linux tree, 7.0-mk2, is out. The technology lets you run several independent kernel instances on bare metal, bypassing virtualization, and promises a performance edge over KVM.
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COSMIC Epoch 1.7: Network Folders in the File Manager Finally Work Fast
System76 has released another update to its Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment. The headline improvement is a fix for a long-standing problem with the slow browsing of remote file systems over SFTP.
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Vanilla OS 3 “Reunion”: the immutable system comes to ARM64
Two years after version 2 “Orchid,” the Vanilla OS team has released the third major version of its immutable distribution based on the Debian “Testing” branch. The headline feature is full-fledged support for the AArch64 architecture.
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GNU Emacs 31.1 Released: Mouse by Default and a Theme for Newcomers
The legendary GNU Emacs text editor has received its 31.1 update, bringing out-of-the-box mouse support in the terminal and a dedicated theme for first-time users.
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UAT-10147: cybercriminals turn server attacks into an assembly line with AI
Cisco Talos researchers have profiled a Chinese-speaking group that mass-compromises Windows and Linux servers, leaning on AI tools and a new cross-platform SPECTRE implant with EDR bypass and a Linux rootkit.
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The Text-Mode Myth: Why Modern TUIs Are Hostile to the Blind
Developer Casey Reeves explains why trendy terminal-interface frameworks break screen readers — while older utilities cope better.
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Linux 7.3 Will Guard the System Against Hung EFI Firmware Calls
EFI changes have landed in the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel: firmware runtime-service calls now get a timeout, so that a single “hung” operation can't drag the whole of user space down with it.
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Steve French, longtime SMB maintainer in the Linux kernel, has died
The Linux community has lost Steve French — the man who for many years maintained the SMB filesystem code in the kernel. News of his passing was shared by his longtime friend and colleague Jeremy Allison.
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Steve French Steps Down as CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer in the Linux Kernel
With the release of Linux 7.3, leadership of the CIFS/SMB3 subsystem changes hands: its long-standing maintainer, Steve French, is leaving the post for health reasons.
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NTFS3 Driver Vulnerability: A Crafted Image Grants Root on Linux
A specially crafted NTFS image on a USB stick lets a local user gain root privileges on Linux. The problem has remained unpatched since early summer.
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