The Linux kernel is approaching a staggering 2,000 CVEs fixed per release, up from roughly 500 through much of the Linux 6.x era, as AI and large language models increasingly scour the operating ...

Linux 7.3-rc2 shipped heavier than usual, with fixes across networking, graphics and filesystems. Torvalds blamed a missed ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Torvalds and the Linux maintainers are taking a pragmatic approach to using AI in the kernel. AI or no AI, it's people, not LLMs, who are ...

NAPA, Calif. — In the immortal words of song developer Pete Townshend, “Well, who are you? (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?) I really wanna know!” Linux kernel maintainers have the same question: Who ...

Ahead of this month's Kernel Recipes 2026 event in Paris, Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman shared a graph charting ...

The widespread introduction of AI-powered coding tools has led to some dramatic splits between those integrating those tools into their workflows and anti-AI absolutists who don’t want large language ...

Linus Torvalds has announced the third release candidate (RC3) for the upcoming Linux Kernel 7.3. Learn what's new in Linux 7 ...

Today, as Corbet said, “We are up to just over 40 million lines of code at this point. It’s fair to say that, indeed, Linux has become big and professional.” The first thing he noted was that, no ...

Every release of the Linux kernel has lots of new features, many of which are accessible from user space. Usually, though, the GNU C Library (glibc) and tools that access the Linux user-space API lag ...