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An agent writes the code now, and a human thumb hovers over Accept all a hundred times a day. The honest question of this decade is what, exactly, you just accepted. So I read the diff.

Eight years as a backend engineer in Stockholm, back in Tokyo since 2023, and I still ship something small most nights, usually badly. My one rule: the only real review of a model is the thing you built with it. That is why there is no leaderboard on this site.

Around a hundred and forty sources come through — the labs' own posts, the papers, the tools, the runtimes and languages nobody is watching yet, the chip under the demo, and the newsletters people actually forward. What is moving gets counted so the week reads at a glance, and every few days I explain one mechanism in plain words.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one image and the link to whoever wrote it. We never reproduce the post; the images belong to their authors. A post written in Japanese appears in Japanese, exactly as it was published, and the link goes to the original.

— Yuki Halvorsen, Tokyo

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LWNLanguagesOpenSUSE Leap 16.1 The openSUSE project has announced the release of openSUSE Leap 16.1. The release is notable for allowing both traditional installations and immutable images with transactional updates.

LWNLanguages[$] LLM reviews for Debian's new queue spark debate The Debian project has wrestled with the topic of LLM usage for years, which culminated in a general-resolution vote this August.

LWNLanguagesFedora Linux 45 released Fedora Linux 45 has been released. This includes all editions: Fedora Workstation , Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop , Fedora Server , Fedora Cloud , Fedora CoreOS , and Fedora IoT , as well as the Atomic…

LWNLanguages[$] The second part of the 7.4 merge window The 7.4 merge window, which closed on November 1, included a record-breaking 18,591 non-merge changesets.

LWNLanguagesShutting the Door on the XCPE Botnet (Threat Intelligence) The Google Threat Intelligence blog describes, in great detail , the XCPE botnet, which has just been taken down.

LWNLanguages[$] Managing the kernel CVE flood We recently looked at how the kernel community is dealing with the firehose of vulnerability reports, but said little about how users of the kernel are responding.

LWNLanguagesTor Browser 16.0 released Version 16.0 of the Tor Browser has been released. This is the first stable version based on Firefox ESR 153.

LWNLanguagesKernel prepatch 7.4-rc1 The 7.4-rc1 kernel prepatch is out, and the merge window is closed for this development cycle. This is a *BIG* merge window.

LWNLanguagesFinal release for the 7.2 stable series Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.15 kernel, with a handful of updates. Note, this is the LAST 7.2.y kernel release. After this one the 7.2.y kernel tree is end-of-life.

LWNLanguagesHow We Could Have Backdoored Bash (Hacktron blog) The Hacktron blog documents how the group was able to compromise the GNU Savannah forge and could have pushed malware into any of the projects hosted there.

LWNLanguages[$] Removing binder.c The final talk at Kangrejos 2026 was about the removal of the C implementation of Android's Binder driver , the primary interprocess communication mechanism used on Android devices.

LWNLanguagesHaas: Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault PostgreSQL developer Robert Haas writes about the struggles the project has encountered in putting together its next release.

LWNLanguagesKernel prepatch 7.4-rc1 The 7.4-rc1 kernel prepatch is out, and the merge window is closed for this development cycle. This is a BIG merge window.