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Phoronix
With the recently reviewed Star Labs StarFighter Ultra Linux laptop its BIOS allows for configurable memory speeds unlike many other laptop vendor BIOS implementations these days.
The open-source Memtest86+ program that is popular for RAM testing has expanded beyond the x86/x86_64 (and LoongArch64) world to now support memory testing on ARM64/AArch64 hardware...
3mdeb firmware engineers have been quite busy this year working on porting Coreboot and openSIL to an AMD Ryzen AM5 MSI motherboard and similarly getting openSIL and Coreboot up and running on a Gigabyte server motherboard for AMD EPYC 9005 CPUs.
OpenAI Codex CLI Releases
Ollama Releases
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super is a vision-language model for coding, reasoning, tool use, and document understanding.
ci: shorten Windows Vulkan build path Keep the nested shader-generator compiler probes below Windows path limits in checkouts with longer repository names.
NVIDIA Technical Blog
NVIDIA is making the full NVIDIA Run:ai platform available as open source software, giving customers, developers, and ecosystem partners access to...
Meta launches Muse Spark Open, a coding-optimized 816B mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 42B active parameters and a 1M token context window. Trained on...
Always-on agents are taking on longer, more complex enterprise workflows. A single request can involve reading a document, checking information across sources,...
llama.cpp Releases
Overview llama.cpp v0.7.0 adds the LiliCorr speculative decoding technique and MTP for GLM5-Next, a new GPU cache for MoE experts kept in host memory ( --moe-cache-mib , up to ~2.2x decode speedup when experts are offloaded), and a large batch of new models: K2 Horizon (dense and MoVA), Prism…
llama.cpp : bump version to 0.7.0 ( #30603 ) Website: https://llama.app Attestations: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/attestations/56338993 macOS/iOS: macOS Apple Silicon (arm64) macOS Apple Silicon (arm64, KleidiAI enabled) DISABLED macOS Intel (x64) iOS XCFramework Linux: Ubuntu x64 (CPU)…
sync : ggml Website: https://llama.app Attestations: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/attestations/56327800 macOS/iOS: macOS Apple Silicon (arm64) macOS Apple Silicon (arm64, KleidiAI enabled) DISABLED macOS Intel (x64) iOS XCFramework Linux: Ubuntu x64 (CPU) Ubuntu arm64 (CPU) Ubuntu s390x…
r/linux
Amazon shipped this with a 32-bit 4.4 kernel on a 64-bit MT8183. It now boots mainline 6.18 arm64.
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Microsoft Research Blog
At a glance A new form of computing . Zero-knowledge proofs let you run a workload and receive, alongside the result, a short proof that the program ran correctly.
Hacker News Best
Article URL: https://snoutcover.com/one-year Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105344 Points: 209 # Comments: 108
Article URL: https://www.derekthompson.org/p/i-know-why-the-mathematicians-weep Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50103630 Points: 244 # Comments: 370
Ars Technica AI
Following a string of incidents where AI models hacked websites and breached government systems during testing phases, the Federal Trade Commission is officially probing Anthropic and OpenAI over consumer harms, an insider told Axios .
Genuine human creativity takes time, but you know what doesn't? AI slop. There are countless AI models out there that can make something that passes for music, and you might come across those tracks on streaming services without realizing it.
Nearly eight years after Epic took on Steam with its own Game Store and launcher, the Fortnite maker is deploying a new tool to give it an edge over Valve: vibe coding. In announcing the new publicly available "Preview" build of its Epic Games Launcher, Epic writes that "programming is hard.
Linux Kernel Releases
Version: next-20261015 (linux-next) Released: 2026-10-15
LWN.net
Since Android's inception, the kernels it has used have diverged significantly from the mainline. While many of those differences have been resolved over time, and the move to the generic kernel image has helped to bring Android closer, current devices still carry a lot of out-of-tree changes.
As part of KDE's 30th anniversary celebration , the project has released The KDE Documentary — A Story of Free Software Underdogs ( YouTube video ): The story starts in 1996, when Matthias Ettrich, a student at the University of Tübingen, posted to a Usenet group asking for programmers to help…
Canonical has announced the release of Ubuntu 26.10 ("Stonking Stingray"): Ubuntu 26.10 advances enterprise security features, completes the rollout of the Rust-based uutils coreutils , and strengthens integrations for user authentication using Microsoft Entra ID.
It's FOSS
The title says that because, until now, the core utilities in Ubuntu were not fully Rust. cp , mv , and rm had stayed on the GNU versions over compatibility issues.
The European Commission's proposed Cloud and AI Development Act , or CADA, looks to lay out four tiers of requirements for cloud services where public bodies would pick a tier for each service they buy, based on the risk involved.
AI's role in kernel work is looking more apparent now. Linus Torvalds' use of Claude Code has tripled read speeds for concurrent file access, while Sasha Levin proposed an agents directory to house AI skills for kernel work.
Hacker News: Linux
Article URL: https://github.com/fyzugx/DEsk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50103338 Points: 351 # Comments: 142
Simon Willison's Weblog
The phrase "told investors" appears four times in this FT article, which reports on Anthropic's day of hosting investors on Wednesday. Lots of details in here from " people with knowledge of the matter ".
OpenAI News
Celebrate Teachers’ Day with AI for Educators in Brazilian Portuguese and see how Study Mode can help teachers support active, step-by-step learning.
9to5Linux
Ubuntu 26.10 official flavors are now available for download, so here's a look at what's new in Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Cinnamon, Edubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Unity, and Ubuntu Kylin.
Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) distribution is now available for download powered by Linux kernel 7.3 and using the GNOME 51 desktop environment.
Libreboot 26.10 open-source BIOS/UEFI firmware is now available for download with full UEFI support, support for over 200 Intel/AMD Chromebooks, and other changes.
OMG! Ubuntu
Ubuntu 26.10 brings a faster way to tile windows, Entra ID passkey login, PDF signatures and a full set of Rust-based core utilities. Here's what’s new.
Ubuntu Blog
The latest interim release of Ubuntu previews privacy conscious speech-to-text, enables post-quantum package signing, completes the rollout of Rust coreutils, and improves enterprise identity integration.
Mistral AI News
State-of-the-art probabilistic forecasting in four sizes (5M–209M params), CPU-efficient, zero-shot ready.
Latent Space
Today Modal switches from our infra unicorn category to infra decacorn .
OpenAI’s Joseph Kim talks about the threshold phenomenon at AIE NY today. One of the key themes at the AI Engineer New York conference this week was how to balance agent autonomy with security and safety .
A few years ago I stumbled upon Leash Bio’s Substack , and was hooked. Be it their Kaggle competition that showed that no, we really haven’t solved protein-ligand binding , or their crazy discovery that knowing a molecule’s author is perhaps all you need to know to predict how good it is .
vLLM Releases
[CI] Pin DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-NVFP4 eval to its FP8-Engram revision (#…
Signed-off-by: jinzhen.ljz jinzhen.ljz@antgroup.com Co-authored-by: Codex codex@openai.com Co-authored-by: Misha Goin mgoin64@gmail.com Co-authored-by: Kevin H. Luu khluu000@gmail.com
Hugging Face Blog
arXiv cs.AI
Under the accelerated pace of AI development, any benchmark whose difficulty is calibrated with humans or current AI systems becomes circular, or saturates soon. How can we then evaluate machines that may become more capable than the current machines and the people who write the tests?
Large language models have significantly lowered the barrier to writing code. Naturally, this has also led to the development of data science agents that promise automating the design and execution of data science from task formulation to model development.
The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has driven their deployment toward general-purpose harness environments, where LLM-based agents operate in sandbox workspaces and interact directly with file systems and shells.
arXiv cs.CL
Voice agents built on large language models (LLMs) now handle customer calls, but in regulated applications completing the task is not enough: the agent must follow a conversational flow set by law.
Abstractive summarization remains challenging across languages, where linguistic quality and factual consistency may diverge, particularly in low-resource settings.
Recent work has questioned whether large language models (LLMs) can be useful for temporal event prediction. Despite vast pretrained world knowledge, LLMs often underperform simpler specialized models.
Open WebUI Releases
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