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Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Suspicious AI activity in Fedora; fork() + exec(); splice() + vmsplice(); BPF loop verification; fanotify; trusted publishing. Briefs: CA age bill; Bundler cooldowns; insecure code completion; Asahi ...

Seth Larson, the Python Software Foundation's security developer-in-residence, has written abou [...]

Agentic AI systems can be used to do a variety of things autonomously on behalf of a human user: open or manage bugs, generate code, submit pull-requests, and (apparently) even complain about rejection. In May, a Fedora developer discovered that an ...

Version 2026.05 of the Buildroot tool has been released. Buildroot simplifies and automates the [...]

Thomas Ward has published an update about the future of the Ubuntu MATE project, which did not [...]

Trusted publishing is an authentication mechanism that relies on short-lived credentials to reduce the risk of supply-chain attacks. At the 2026 Open Source Summit North America, Mike Fiedler walked the audience through why trusted publishing exists,

The Asahi Linux project, which brings Linux support to Apple Arm-based Macs, has warned its use [...]

The BPF verifier has, in the course of wrestling with the difficult problem of statically analyzing loops, grown special support for many kinds of loops over its history, but its fundamental approach to simple for loops has not changed. When it ...

Heise is carrying a report from the Linux App Summit, held in Berlin in May. The slightly mo [...]

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.0.12, 6.18.35, and 6.12.93 stable kernels [...]