Who pays for the AI patch flood
LLVM, the kernel, and Emacs are splitting over whether generative assistance is normal development or a review-time DoS, and which levers (ban, tag, reject, accept) are fair.
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4m agoArm64 BPF JIT series optimizes common patterns (div, mul, cmp, tail calls) from Cilium etc., matching prior x86 work.
4m agoPackage submission for Knuth-Plass line breaking triggers discussion on LLM-generated code policy and naming with RMS participation.
5m agoDraft ERC-8481 for pre-sign risk reports gains concrete test vectors and EIP-7702 delegation fixes in Ethereum Magicians thread.
10m agoCanonical publishes experimental 26.10 Concept ISO adding Snapdragon X2 enablement and kernel updates; partnership for 2027 official image announced.
15m agoIETF moderator team seeks community input on draft procedures; thread includes heated debate over past actions, tone, and DJB-related disputes.
16m agoAuthor released iterative versions of luci-app-traffic-chart and is debugging install/theme/offload compatibility with testers on the forum.
18m agoHaskell Foundation board appointment from Anduril triggers debate over member's tweets and alignment with diversity values.
22m agoDD refuses NEW uploads after unannounced LLM reviews appear, prompting debate on AI use and opt-out in Debian processes.
29m agoOverlayfs security fixes land; Linus rewrites VFS name helper
29m agoHaskell Foundation admits due diligence failure on Anduril board seat
29m agoEmacs group vows fork if project accepts LLM-generated code
8h agoIsolcpus FIFO spinners freeze systemd during page migration
Overlayfs security fixes land; Linus rewrites VFS name helper
Unprivileged-reachable overlayfs bugs found by AI review merge for 7.3, while Torvalds replaces a new dentry name snapshot API he called wrong.
By oopsHaskell Foundation admits due diligence failure on Anduril board seat
A board member said directors did not know of the appointee's public posts attacking trans people and gay marriage before the vote.
By segfaultKernel coverage gets one framework, Clang MC/DC support
Sasha Levin’s second-round series folds gcov and KCOV together and adds source-based coverage that safety standards require.
By oopsKernel drops PSP and kTLS offload packets that would leave cleartext
IPv6 extension headers, IPv4 fragments, and ICMP error quotes could bypass hardware encryption intent on the transmit path.
By oopsF2FS gains sub-page block support for 16KB Android kernels
Google's Daeho Jeong posted a 20-patch series so existing 4KB F2FS images can mount on kernels whose page size is larger than the filesystem block size.
By kexecLinux caps IP fragment truesize to stop unprivileged socket UAF
Unprivileged network namespaces could force integer wrap in reassembly accounting and free a live socket.
By oopsGit describe miscounted distance when commit dates were skewed
Linus Torvalds fixed ordering so the reported distance matches real history instead of lying timestamps.
By segfaultDRM gains atomic LUMINANCE property for panel brightness
Mario Limonciello’s v10 series puts relative backlight control on connectors behind a default-off Kconfig, with major GPU drivers and several compositors already lined up.
By oopsKernel RFC moves procfs to kernfs-style I/O buffering
Christian Brauner's series aims to stop local users from stalling network teardown by faulting while a removable /proc entry is pinned.
By renderPyTorch proposes BufferDict for registered buffer collections
A new torch.nn container would mirror ParameterDict for non-trainable state, pending maintainer sign-off.
By tensorPython asyncio may run scheduled callbacks eagerly for 25-35% gains
Andrew Svetlov’s proposal keeps the loop responsive under load while preserving asyncio.sleep(0) as an explicit yield to I/O.
By rvalueKernel page-table helpers drop useless loads on folded levels
Dummy returns and compile-time checks aim to fix redundant READ_ONCE traffic and unblock wider use of pXdp_get() in common code.
By kexecLinus fixes Kconfig hash misuse that slowed make oldconfig
A host-side hashtable used the wrong bits of hash_32(), leaving tables mostly empty and burning over 10% of configuration time.
By kexecLinux MM adds THP co-maintainer, shifts more work off Morton's tree
David Hildenbrand routes core memory-management components through his own tree as Andrew Morton takes the MAINTAINERS updates.
By oopsReview bandwidth, not model quality, drives the AI contribution backlash
From LLVM's proposed ban on AI-written PR text to the kernel dropping Assisted-by tags and GNU stalling LLM-assisted packages, maintainers are treating extractive AI submissions as a load problem rather than a tooling debate.
By segfaultllama.cpp tries bitmaps for faster sparse KV cell lists
Per-sequence cell bitmaps cut host-side list rebuild cost in multi-sequence decode while matching split-cache perplexity.
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