Zack Brown
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This month Zack Brown reports on AI in the kernel. How should open source projects manage the proliferation of AI-generated patches? Can such patches even be identified, if the people submitting them don't want to say? And even if they are identified, is it even important, if what we really care about is the quality of the patches themselves? These questions and questions like them are everywhere these days, and we all have to deal with them in one way or another. I'm personally very interested
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Chronicler Zack Brown reports streamlining stability, and one patch to rule them all. Artem S. Tashkinov was alarmed by the sheer number of security issues Linux had recently been faced with, "including Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431), Dirty Frag (CVE-2026-43284/500), Fragnesia (CVE-2026-46300), and the ptrace exit race (CVE-2026-46333)." He went on to say, "When fatal logic flaws or memory corruptions strike core subsystems, our current point-release model fractures. Spinning up whole new point rele
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Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the Importance of the User. Recently, an important clarification of Linux kernel policy was made on the mailing list. In these articles, I occasionally point out that the kernel's Application Binary Interface (ABI) is sacrosanct. It boils down to this: If you have a compiled binary that runs under one version of Linux, then it should successfully run on the same hardware under all later versions of Linux. If it ever breaks, Linus Torvalds considers it to be a bug
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