[$] The role of LLMs in patch review
Discussion of a memory-management patch set intended to clean up a helper function for handling huge pages spiraled into something else entirely after it was posted on March 19. M [...]
[$] Objections to systemd age-attestation changes go overboard
In early March, Dylan M. Taylor submitted a pull request to add a field to store a user's birth date in systemd's JSON user records. This was done to allow applications to store th [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1064706/ #LWN #Linux #Debian #systemd
Vulnerability Research Is Cooked (sockpuppet.org)
Security updates for Tuesday
SystemRescue 13.00 released
Rspamd version 4.0.0 released
[$] Rust's next-generation trait solver
Rust's compiler team has been working on a long-term project to rewrite the trait solver — the part of the compiler that determines which concrete function should be called when a [...]
Security updates for Monday
Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc6
[$] The many failures leading to the LiteLLM compromise
LiteLLM is a gateway library providing access to a number of large language models (LLMs); it is popular and widely used. On March 24, the word went out that the version of LiteLL [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1064693/ #LWN #Linux #security #Python #Git
The telnyx packages on PyPI have been compromised
Stable kernel update to fix regression on LoongArch platform
Security updates for Friday
The forge is our new home (Fedora Community Blog)
[$] Vibe-coded ext4 for OpenBSD
A number of projects have been struggling with the question of which submissions created by large language models (LLMs), if any, should be accepted into their code base. This dis [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1064541/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Python
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 26, 2026
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 26, 2026 is available.
LibreQoS v2.0 released
Security updates for Wednesday