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Linux Kernel README Surfaces Amid GitHub Outage Reports

A document circulated under the title 'GitHub Down Again?' turns out to be the Linux kernel's standard README file, outlining how to build the kernel, report bugs, and navigate its documentation for different types of contributors. The content includes role-based guidance for new developers, researchers, security experts, maintainers, and hardware vendors.

github.com · 2026-11-08

Kernel.org Says AI Scrapers Now Outweigh Legitimate Git Traffic in Server Load

The maintainer of git.kernel.org reports that AI training crawlers are consuming more CPU resources than all legitimate access combined, including actual git clones. Across five geographically distributed nodes, 14 CPU cores are constantly occupied just rendering git commits as HTML pages for these bots, even though the same data is available far more efficiently via direct git clone.

people.kernel.org · 2026-08-29