3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (555+ words) In that same email, Stoakes stated that he used an LLM to determine where the bottlenecks were and how to improve them. He then said that the LLM generated a lot of code, "much of it hideous." "The patches work…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (568+ words) Imagine being a kernel developer, knowing that AI is now discovering over 2,000 bugs for every release. On the kernel.org site, main developer Greg Kroah-Hartman shared a slide showing how the number of vulnerabilities has increased from kernel 6.9 to kernel…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (342+ words) This innovative Linux distribution combines virtualization with the Tor network to deliver out-of-the-box privacy you won't find with the mainstream distros. In this article, I show you how to install Whonix and make use of its sophisticated features. The Whonix…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (400+ words) 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…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (390+ words) Because of that specific purpose, Hartman has made it clear that anyone "attempting to use an LLM [Large Language Model] to clean up or 'fix' any code in drivers/staging/ is EXPLICITLY defeating the whole purpose of it existing in…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (421+ words) Despite its current bad rap, AI does have its uses. We'll show you how to best use some practical AI features in popular KDE apps. That is, it is the greedy corporate tech bros doing what greedy corporate tech bros…...