arXiv announced a rate-limiting policy applying to all submitters and categories, effective October 1, 2026, citing an unsustainable surge in paper submissions. The organization reported September 2024 submissions of 40,363, roughly double the figure from two years earlier, generating nearly 9,000 support tickets for staff and moderators. arXiv said AI tools are helping drive the increase, and moderators are seeing more thin, narrow-scope papers that fail to meet scholarly standards.
blog.arxiv.org
· 2026-10-01
French security firm CrowdSec disclosed that attackers used the Shai-Hulud worm to compromise a former employee's machine in May, stealing a GitHub OAuth token that still had read access to the company's private repositories. Over roughly nine minutes, attackers downloaded about 170 private repos plus 130+ public ones; CrowdSec only learned of the breach on September 16 after stolen source code surfaced on the cybercrime marketplace pwnforum.
darkreading.com
· 2026-09-22
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
CodeFloe has launched as a professionally hosted public Git forge, using the open-source Forgejo project as its underlying platform. The service provides standard forge features like repositories, issues, pull requests, releases, packages, APIs and migration tools, while adding its own integrations on top through a publicly maintained fork.
codefloe.com
· 2026-08-24
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