Linus Torvalds used Claude again to remove years-old, slow and insecure Linux kernel code. The cleanup is now merged into Linux 7.4 and spans 48 commits. It targets __get_user() and __put_user(), old memory-access helpers that skip user-address checks. Linus says their historical performance advantage disappeared years ago. He wrote the initial example patch, then used Claude to help apply the same changes elsewhere. The old calls are gone from generic kernel code, with the interfaces fully removed on x86. Other architectures still retain some uses. As Linus put it, “we should have done this years ago.” Source:

Apple's newest MacBooks can now boot Linux. Linus Torvalds just released Linux kernel 7.2, and buried inside the changelog is initial support for Apple's M3 chip. There is no official driver, no documentation, no cooperation from Apple at all. The Asahi Linux team spent months reverse-engineering Apple Silicon from scratch, with zero help from the company that built it. Right now it only boots to a serial console. Full graphics acceleration is still a work in progress. But the hardest part is done. The M3, one of Apple's most locked-down chips, now runs code Apple never signed off on. Back in 2020, Torvalds himself said getting Linux running on Apple Silicon looked like too much work for him personally to take on. A small team of volunteers started the project anyway in early 2021. Five years later, one MacBook at a time, they are quietly proving that a locked platform is not the same thing as an impossible one. Source:

Apple just made Docker Desktop optional on Mac. And it is completely free. This is apple/container. 26.5k stars no Github. You can now run Linux containers natively on your Mac without installing Docker Desktop, without a background daemon hogging your RAM, and without paying $21 a month per developer for a commercial license. Here is what it does: → Runs Linux containers as lightweight VMs directly on Apple Silicon using macOS 26 virtualization → Fully OCI compatible. Pull any image from Docker Hub, GitHub Container Registry or anywhere else → Written in Swift and optimised specifically for Apple Silicon. Faster and lighter than anything Docker Desktop does on Mac → Standard container CLI syntax. If you know Docker commands you already know how to use this → Push images you build to any standard container registry and run them anywhere Docker Desktop charges $21 per developer per month for commercial use. Apple's version costs nothing and ships as open source under Apache-2.0. Microsoft made Docker Desktop optional on Windows with WSL Containers last month. Apple just did the same on Mac. Docker is not going anywhere. But the era of paying for a GUI wrapper around containers on your own machine is quietly ending. Repo here: