A government-funded initiative announced Tuesday aims to boost code review of open-source software to prevent security holes. Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, the same ...

The Linux kernel is moving toward a better way of identifying developers and their code. This new approach can be used by other open-source projects. It's not being rolled out yet, but I expect it to ...

Linux allows AI-generated kernel code, but the community will treat it as your own contribution. AI tools can't add signed-off-by tags; you must certify DCO, license, and review all code. If your AI ...

After months of discussion, the Linux kernel development community has formulated a formal project-wide policy regarding the contribution of AI-generated code. This policy, agreed upon by Linux kernel ...

Last week, Greg Kroah-Hartman, the current maintainer of the stable branch of the open source Linux kernel, issued a message on the Linux code maintainers mail list announcing that it was removing ...

A local, race condition vulnerability in the af_packet implementation in Linux was patched this week. The bug allows a local attacker to execute code or crash a server. A critical, local ...