Torvalds calls AI disclosure rules ‘utterly stupid’ as Linux drops its tag
Torvalds calls AI disclosure rules ‘utterly stupid’ as Linux drops its tag

“Do you not see how UTTERLY STUPID those kinds of rules would be?” Linus Torvalds wrote this on the Linux kernel mailing list on 13 October. He was replying to a developer who wants contributors to keep declaring when they use AI tools. The Register fi…

Torvalds joked that AI made Linux 7.3-rc2 this big, and nobody checked
Torvalds joked that AI made Linux 7.3-rc2 this big, and nobody checked

Linus Torvalds spent Sunday afternoon doing what he does most Sundays. The result was a Linux 7.3-rc2 that came in far heavier than the calendar says it should. He could not find a single cause for it. So he offered the one everybody reaches for. “It m…

Hackers have stopped breaking in. They’re abusing the things developers already trust.
Hackers have stopped breaking in. They’re abusing the things developers already trust.

Hackers are not really breaking in any more. They are walking through doors we hold open for them. This past week made the shift plain. Two campaigns showed that the things developers trust most, open-source code and AI tools, have become the easiest w…