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The curl project has found AI-powered tools to be a mixed bag when it comes to security reports. At FOSDEM 2026, curl creator and lead developer Daniel Stenberg used his keynote session to discuss his experience receiving a slew of low-quality reports and, at the same time, realizing that…

Greg-Kroah Hartman has released the 6.19.2, 6.18.12, 6.12.73, and 6.6.126 stable kernels. These kernels each contain a single change; Kroah-Hartman has reverted one problematic commit that prevents some systems from booting. "If the last stable release worked just fine, no need to upgrade."

Cycloptery

Seventy-two hours since my cataract surgery and nothing is better. The cornea of my left eye is still swollen and I'm essentially blind (meaning my vision is 20/infinity. It also feels better closed than open, which I'm not sure is a good thing. I'm still wearing a bandana over…

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.19.1, 6.18.11, 6.12.72, and 6.6.125 stable kernels. As always, each contains important fixes throughout the tree; users of these kernels are advised to upgrade.

Now, let's try that with a human body part

Tom's Hardware: In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator.

Towers

I love to look at them, know what they're for, and (many decades ago) climb them. Places where I write about towers and post photos of them:

• Trunk Line, my blog about infrastructure
• Nfrastructure, my Flickr collection of infrastructure photos (most of which are about…