The 48-Hour Internet Panic: How a Volunteer in Czechia Saved 70% of the Web
AI tools weaponized a critical PHP flaw in hours. Governments shut down websites. But before catastrophe struck, one unpaid maintainer…
Linus Torvalds Is Using AI to Write Linux Code. The Open-Source World Is Up in Arms.
The Linux kernel team just stopped asking whether your patch was written by an LLM. But Linus has a very…
A Batch of Linux Kernel Bugs Just Leaked Publicly
A security team hit “send” to the wrong address, exposing unpatched high-severity bugs to the entire planet. But before you…
Linus Torvalds Is Using AI to Write Linux Kernel Code — Claude Code Helps Him Build 8 Patches With a 3x Speedup
“I used to think AI was pretty bad, but now I really like using it.” That is not something you…
PgBouncer 1.26.1 Released With Fixes for Three Security Vulnerabilities
PgBouncer 1.26.1 fixes one SCRAM authentication bypass and two denial-of-service vulnerabilities. The release also restores the expected behavior of the…
pgwatch 6.0 Rebuilds Its Collector So One Stuck Database Can’t Freeze Your Postgres Monitoring
CYBERTEC released pgwatch 6.0 this month, the biggest update since version 5 of its open-source PostgreSQL monitoring tool. It adds support for…
Microsoft Open-Sources a Postgres MCP Server for AI Coding Agents, and Write Access Is On by Default
On October 1, Microsoft open-sourced the Postgres MCP Server, a tool that lets AI coding agents like GitHub Copilot or Claude…
KDE Plasma 6.8 Is Less Than Two Weeks Away, and the Second Beta Is Already Out
KDE Plasma 6.8 is due on October 14, and the project has just shipped a second beta to get there.…
Cloudflare Wants to Become a Free Certificate Authority, and Let’s Encrypt Finally Gets Company
On September 29, Cloudflare announced that it is applying to become a public certificate authority (CA). It has submitted applications…
Linux Just Got a New Way to Collect System Information
On September 25, 2026, systemd introduced systemd-report, a new reporting system that collects Linux system information and runtime metrics into…