New delegation for Debian's data protection team

https://lwn.net/Articles/1058663/ #LWN #Linux #Debian

[$] The first half of the 7.0 merge window

The merge window for Linux 7.0 has opened, and with it comes a number of interesting improvements and enhancements. At the time of writing, there have been 7,695 non-merge commits [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1057769/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Clang #Rust #Git #XFS #BPF #io_uring

[$] Open-source mapping for disaster response

At FOSDEM 2026 Petya Kangalova, a senior tech partnership and engagement manager for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) spoke about how the project helps people map their su [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1057691/ #LWN #Linux #FOSDEM

Security updates for Friday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1058642/ #LWN #Linux #security

[$] Poisoning scraperbots with iocaine

Web sites are being increasingly beset by AI scraperbots — a problem that we have written about before, and which has slowly ramped up to an occasional de-facto DDoS attack. This h [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1056953/ #LWN #Linux #Rust #Git

[$] The reverting of revocable

Transient devices pose a special challenge for an operating-system kernel. They can disappear at any time, leaving behind kernel data structures that no longer refer to an existing [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1058041/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Rust

Debian DFSG Team announces new dashboard and queue processes

https://lwn.net/Articles/1058480/ #LWN #Linux #Debian

A single stable kernel for Thursday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1058478/ #LWN #Linux #kernel

Security updates for Thursday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1058473/ #LWN #Linux #security

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 12, 2026

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 12, 2026 is available.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1057382/ #LWN #Linux

"strategic computer rental and anchoring to proprietary services"" (SCRAPS) 😅

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1056800/681e3741d3e24378/

#LWN #Linux #Cloud #Sovereignty #Proprietary #OpenSource

[$] Evolving Git for the next decade

Git is ubiquitous; in the last two decades, the version-control system has truly achieved world domination. Almost every developer uses it and the vast majority of open-source proj [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1057561/ #LWN

postmarketOS FOSDEM 2026 and hackathon recap

https://lwn.net/Articles/1058285/ #LWN

Stable kernels for Wednesday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1058268/ #LWN

Security updates for Wednesday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1058265/ #LWN

Dave Farber RIP

https://lwn.net/Articles/1058028/ #LWN

GTK hackfest, 2026 edition (GTK Development Blog)

https://lwn.net/Articles/1058024/ #LWN

[$] FOSS in times of war, scarcity, and AI

Michiel Leenaars, director of strategy at the NLnet Foundation, used his keynote at FOSDEM to sound warnings for the community for free and open-source (FOSS) software; in particul [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1056800/ #LWN

Security updates for Tuesday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1057993/ #LWN

[$] Development statistics for 6.19

Linus Torvalds released the 6.19 kernel on February 8, as expected. This development cycle brought 14,344 non-merge changesets into the mainline, making it the busiest release sin [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1057302/ #LWN