postmarketOS FOSDEM 2026 and hackathon recap
[$] Poisoning scraperbots with iocaine
Web sites are being increasingly beset by AI scraperbots — a problem that we have written about before, and which has slowly ramped up to an occasional de-facto DDoS attack. This h [...]
A single stable kernel for Thursday
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 12, 2026
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 12, 2026 is available.
[$] Evolving Git for the next decade
Git is ubiquitous; in the last two decades, the version-control system has truly achieved world domination. Almost every developer uses it and the vast majority of open-source proj [...]
postmarketOS FOSDEM 2026 and hackathon recap
Stable kernels for Wednesday
Security updates for Wednesday
Dave Farber RIP
GTK hackfest, 2026 edition (GTK Development Blog)
[$] FOSS in times of war, scarcity, and AI
Michiel Leenaars, director of strategy at the NLnet Foundation, used his keynote at FOSDEM to sound warnings for the community for free and open-source (FOSS) software; in particul [...]
Security updates for Tuesday
[$] Development statistics for 6.19
Linus Torvalds released the 6.19 kernel on February 8, as expected. This development cycle brought 14,344 non-merge changesets into the mainline, making it the busiest release sin [...]
Offpunk 3.0 released
Debian's tag2upload considered stable
Security updates for Monday
The 6.19 kernel has been released
An in-kernel machine-learning library
Six stable kernels for Friday