Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 14, 2024

• Questions about machine-learning models for Fedora: should machine-learning weights be treated as code, or content?
• Insecurity and Python pickles: the pickle serialization module is a popular component of machine-learning file formats, but it is a bad choice for handling untrusted data.
• Untangling the Open Collectives: what we know about the Open Collective organizations and Open Collective Foundation (OCF) shutdown.
• Better linked-list traversal in BPF: new BPF primitives to make it easier to write loops may soon be available.
• A new filesystem for pidfds: bumps along the road to a new filesystem for pidfds that is likely to appear in the 6.9 kernel.
• Development statistics for 6.8: a look at contributions to the 6.8 kernel, with a look at the first appearance of bugs fixed in this kernel.
• Vale: enforcing style guidelines for text: a tool for linting technical prose.

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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