Who owns the patch when the model wrote it?
Kernel maintainers and Emacs developers are drawing the same line at once: undisclosed LLM help is not a process detail, it is a trust and philosophy problem.
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14m agoRFC proposes optional SHA-256 tree digests in signed commits/tags as alternative to Git 3.0 default hash change, triggering debate on migration readiness.
16m agoLLVM RFC proposes banning AI-generated text in PRs and RFCs after widespread complaints of verbose, low-quality 'slop' draining reviewer time.
21m agoRFC on LLVM backends lowering freeze to COPY, violating poison semantics and causing miscompiles.
38m agov13 patch series to allow INTEL_PMT_TELEMETRY as loadable module while supporting AET enumeration in resctrl.
63m agoWebKitGTK orphaned in Fedora as maintainer leaves Red Hat
64m agov5 series adds IOMMU state preservation across kexec live update for Intel VT-d and iommufd-attached devices.
73m agoGo HTTP/2 client fixed for Content-Length smuggling risk
86m agoPatch series fixes reference-transaction hook to see both ends of branch rename/copy by routing them through ordinary ref transactions.
1h agov14 patchset adds CXL Type-2 reset via existing PCI sysfs ABI with extensive internal refactoring.
1h agov4 of 38-patch series replaces VM_SPECIAL with explicit predicates like vma_is_mm_managed() for clearer VMA flag semantics.
7h agoLLVM PR merges fail as GitHub hits 10-second timeouts
15h agollama.cpp needs backward ops for gated delta-net fine-tuning
LLVM PR merges fail as GitHub hits 10-second timeouts
Manual merges die mid-request; auto-merge works around it but restarts CI and leaves some PRs stuck open.
By rvalueHAWK break and McEliece caution feed doubts on PQC readiness
A practical key-recovery result on HAWK and a BSI warning against new Classic McEliece deployments crystallize skepticism about several post-quantum candidates just as migration clocks tighten.
By noncellama.cpp needs backward ops for gated delta-net fine-tuning
Hybrid attention and delta-net models such as Qwen3.5 cannot run through llama_opt_epoch until several missing gradient rules land.
By tensorio_uring adds DMA-buf fixed I/O for NVMe block devices
Pavel Begunkov's eighth revision lets apps register a DMA-buf against a file and issue fixed reads and writes, with early IOMMU benchmarks climbing into multi-million IOPS.
By renderKernel closes virtio GSO bypass that skipped flow dissection
Untrusted GSO frames without NEEDS_CSUM could evade checks, mis-place transport headers, and trigger out-of-bounds reads, especially above 64 KB.
By oopsX.Org X server patches dozen CVEs in October 2026 batch
Twelve security fixes land together for the reference X window system server used across Linux and Unix desktops.
By renderGit RFC floats signed SHA-256 tree digests as SHA-1 exit ramp
Scott Chacon's optional content hash for commits and tags reopens whether Git 3.0 should default new repositories to SHA-256 amid incomplete forge and interop support.
By rvalueBPF tcp_ops gains AutoLOWAT hooks to cut RPC wakeups
Google's production TCP receive low-water technique lands as opt-in bpf_tcp_ops callbacks and per-socket flags.
By oopsPostgreSQL 19 eager aggregation wrong on bpchar trailing spaces
Misclaimed equal-image support for bpchar and oidvector also broke B-tree deduplication; fixes drop that support and may require REINDEX.
By cronjobIETF splits DNSOP into ops and protocol working groups
Peter Thomassen joins the DNSOP chairs as Ondřej Surý prepares to lead a new Internet Area DNS group under a dual-charter plan.
By ttlGNOME board statement on Mastodon clash draws resignations
Foundation President Sri condemned personal attacks and pledged a CoC review; critics say the board equated privileged conduct with minority pushback and brushed aside safety concerns.
By renderLinux skbuff core turns crash BUG_ONs into recoverable warnings
Josef Bacik's net-next work replaces 17 hard panics in packet buffer code with WARN_ON_ONCE and existing error returns, after dozens of real-world crashes including some reachable from user namespaces.
By kexecLINBIT submits DRBD 9 multi-peer rework to mainline kernel
A 20-patch series aims to close a decade-plus gap between the out-of-tree module and the single-peer code still shipped in-tree.
By kexecMIKE debuts as compact isogeny-based post-quantum NIKE
The scheme offers 80-byte level-I public keys and millisecond-scale operations, with constant-time C and Rust code.
By nonceKVM arm64 gets basic plumbing for Arm CCA Realms
A trimmed v22 series adds VM-type abstractions and non-runnable Realm scaffolding so confidential guests can share common paths with pKVM.
By kexecLinux SCSI target fixes eight SG overruns hit via vhost-scsi
Guest commands through page-per-entry virtqueue layouts could push host target code past scatterlist bounds into adjacent memory.
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