“AI made our security unmanageable”

Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel and responsible for its development since 1991, assures that the project’s security list is “almost completely unmanageable.” The cause is the massive arrival of vulnerability reports generated with artificial intelligence (AI) tools. The problem, according to a May 17 post by Torvalds on the Linux Kernel Mailing List … Read more

Bitcoin mailing list and history removed from Linux

Visitors to the old Bitcoin mailing list archive page now encounter a clear error message: “There is no bitcoin-dev list.” This marks the end of an era in digital currency development communication, as the Bitcoin Core mailing list has been completely removed from its former home at the Linux Foundation. The poste restanteknown as bitcoin-dev, … Read more

Linux creates foundation to defend open source blockchain networks

Key facts: Members include Polygon, Hedera and Brazil’s central bank. These open technologies seek to avoid proprietary lock-in in finance. The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit collaborative foundation, has announced the launch of the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LFDT), a new umbrella organization dedicated to advancing the use of decentralized technologies for the digital economy. According … Read more