Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 19, 2026

• Do androids dream of accepted pull requests?: the Matplotlib project deals with a bot unhappy to have its pull request rejected.
• Compact formats for debugging—and more: rethinking debuginfo and the tools that use it.
• Poisoning scraperbots with iocaine: feeding nonsense text to bots to discourage rampant scraping.
• The reverting of revocable: the revocable resource-management patch series from Tzung-Bi Shih goes back to the drawing board.
• The first half of the 7.0 merge window: some of the notable changes that will appear in the next kernel release.
• More accurate congestion notification for TCP: a look at AccECN, which will be enabled by default in Linux 7.0.
• Open source security in spite of AI: At FOSDEM, Daniel Stenberg shared his thoughts on the impact of LLM tools on open-source projects.
• Open-source mapping for disaster response: a look at the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) project and the tools it provides.

This week's edition also includes these inner pages:

• Brief items: Brief news items from throughout the community.
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

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