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…