[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 17, 2026
Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 17, 2026 This edition contains the following feature content: Ways to encrypt data on servers: a FOSSY talk on the why and how of encrypting data on servers. PostgreSQL 19's "scary patch contest": the PostgreSQL 19 release is delayed due to some patches that have not really stabilized yet. Accelerating the kernel's build process: some LLM-assisted changes that result in a significant speedup for kernel builds.
- ▪Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 17, 2026 This edition contains the following feature content: Ways to encrypt data on servers: a FOSSY talk on the why and how of encrypting data on servers.
- ▪PostgreSQL 19's "scary patch contest": the PostgreSQL 19 release is delayed due to some patches that have not really stabilized yet.
- ▪Accelerating the kernel's build process: some LLM-assisted changes that result in a significant speedup for kernel builds.
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| Original publisher | LWN.net (Linux Weekly News) |
| Canonical URL | https://lwn.net/Articles/1093434/ |
| Publication time | Thu, 17 Sep 2026 01:12:53 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-17T01:13:42.390Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-17T01:13:43.353Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | ssh-Au-rrArl |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 17, 2026 This edition contains the following feature content: Ways to encrypt data on servers: a FOSSY talk on the why and how of encrypting data on servers. PostgreSQL 19's "scary patch contest": the PostgreSQL 19 release is delayed due to some patches that have not really stabilized yet. Accelerating the kernel's build process: some LLM-assisted changes that result in a significant speedup for kernel builds. Adding BPF to blk-iocost: a way to allow BPF programs to decide on the cost of I/O operations for the blk-iocost control-group controller. Lessons learned as the Debian Project Leader: Andreas Tille was the Debian Project Leader for two years and related what he learned at MiniDebConf Winterthur.
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