The Linux Foundation's IT infrastructure director revealed that AI crawlers hunting for clean, LLM-free training data are hammering the organization's kernel.org git servers, consuming more CPU power than all legitimate human and tool access combined. Because cgit can generate near-infinite valid URLs for commits, diffs, and patches across hundreds of forks, scrapers are redundantly fetching duplicate data at massive scale.
linux.slashdot.org
· 2026-08-30
A developer has resumed work on DNet, a self-built network stack originally created while studying computer networking, after leaving it dormant for four years. The project handles TAP device creation, Ethernet frame parsing, ARP, ICMPv4, and UDP, and now includes a basic DNS server used as the authoritative resolver for the author's DN42 domain 42420167.xyz.
blog.lyc8503.net
· 2026-08-30
Greg Kroah-Hartman previewed data for his Kernel Recipes 2026 talk in Paris showing that AI and LLM tools scanning the Linux kernel codebase have driven a sharp rise in reported vulnerabilities. Releases that once averaged around 500 fixed CVEs are now approaching 2,000, with Linux 7.3 potentially crossing that mark.
linux.slashdot.org
· 2026-08-29
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
Developer Daniel Palmer has written new patches for Linux's Tdfxfb driver that let the kernel initialize 3dfx Voodoo3 graphics cards even on systems lacking a standard BIOS, such as the Amiga 4000. Palmer used AI assistance to read data directly from the card's own BIOS to force it out of an 'unbooted' state and produce a video signal, and the code is set to ship in Linux 7.3. He is also extending the work toward Voodoo4/5 support and Voodoo3 emulation in QEMU.
techspot.com
· 2026-08-24
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