AMD's initial AVX10_V2_AUX ISA support was merged into LLVM 24 Git on Monday, spanning 15,000 lines of new code across 20 patches and exposed in the Clang compiler via the new -mavx10v2aux flag. AVX10…
Alibaba Cloud will contribute $3 million USD to the Omacom Foundation for the Omarchy Linux distribution, matching DigitalOcean's $1 million USD a year for three years, the Omarchy project announced. …
Starling 0.5, the Linux desktop written in Swift with its own Wayland compositor and built largely via AI, was released with an optional 3D desktop mode that adds a walkable 3D waterfront city, and no…
Intel suspended its paid bug bounty program on Intigriti, which had offered awards ranging from $500 to $100,000 USD for hardware, software, firmware, and open-source vulnerabilities, and launched a r…
Void Linux maintainer Andrea Brancaleoni orphaned more than 100 packages he maintained after a dispute over the project's AI usage policy, which requires all AI tool usage to be disclosed in contribut…
Intel released Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.38 on Friday, adding official support for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS as the sole listed change in the user-space driver for Core Ultra Neural Processing Units. The driver…
ARM engineer Lorenzo Stoakes posted 23 patches to the Linux kernel mailing list that use an unnamed large language model to identify and fix build bottlenecks, achieving up to 36% faster full kernel b…
Debian developers voted to adopt a policy allowing the 'Responsible Use of Generative AI' in the project, rejecting a ban on AI-assisted contributions. The decision, announced after a General Resoluti…
AMD has released ROCm 10.0, a major version jump from ROCm 7.14, introducing ROCm.AI for AI-driven development and the ROCm CLI. The release includes Hyperloom, improved Linux package consolidation, p…
Linux 7.3 networking maintainers Jakub Kicinski and Paolo Abeni merged 632 net and 648 net-next patches, but say they are 'completely overwhelmed' by AI-generated low-priority fixes, with 1/3 to 1/2 o…
Linus Torvalds authored and committed a fix to the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver after a 'debug session from hell' that he said was 'enormously helped' by AI. The one-line patch changes a 'round_up(…
Andrew Morton sent the memory management updates for the Linux 7.3 merge window, including two performance optimizations: reducing locking contention in zs_free() of the zsmalloc allocator, which sped…
The ARM64 architecture will introduce the BBML3 feature with Linux 7.3, replacing the existing BBML2-noabort code for more efficient page table transitions and improved memory management. The kernel a…
A new research paper by Manuel S. Drehwald, Marcelo Domínguez, Kevin Sala, Alán Aspuru-Guzik, and Johannes Doerfert demonstrates that using LLVM's Offload infrastructure with the Rust programming lang…
KTransformers 0.7, the heterogeneous LLM inference and fine-tuning framework, is now available with full AVX-512 support for LoRA fine-tuning that no longer requires Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX), …
Mozilla released Firefox 154, adding a "Manage AI" quick action to open the AI section of Firefox Settings from the address bar. The update also clears cached favicons on hard reload, extends Local Ac…
Cloudflare announced the open-sourcing of Cloudflare OS, an AI 'operating system' that provides an agent workspace, security framework, and platform for building apps, under an Apache 2.0 license. The…
Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman has submitted a patch to remove the Moxa Intellio driver, which supports multi-port serial cards, citing the driver's age and the increasing noise from AI/LL…
The Linux Foundation has launched the Tokenomics Foundation to establish open, vendor-neutral industry standards, benchmarks, and best practices for the economics of AI, backed by 30 initial members i…
Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced on Monday that patches generated by large language models (LLMs) will be automatically rejected for the drivers/staging/ subsystem, except for genu…