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21 items from the last 24 hours across 11 sources · 2026-10-25 (generated 2026-10-25 05:45 UTC). Each entry is a title, a short excerpt and a link to the original; read the full story at the source.

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OMG! Ubuntu

PHP2Shell scare sees SuperTuxKart pull its online server · 2026-10-25 05:05 UTC

SuperTuxKart has taken several online services offline, having pulled the server that powers them rather than risk it being exploited by PHP2shell.

llama.cpp Releases

b11870 · 2026-10-25 02:18 UTC

model: DSV4.1 flash ( #31086 ) model : add DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (deepseek41) deepseek41 : remove MXFP8, convert the Engram table to BF16 deepseek41 : compute the compressed-KV read layers once in the…

b11869 · 2026-10-24 21:21 UTC

jinja : fix select and selectattr argument handling ( #31059 ) jinja : fix select and selectattr argument handling jinja : address review feedback jinja : Simplified test attr Website:…

b11868 · 2026-10-24 20:27 UTC

hexagon: KV-head team split for multicore HMX flash attention ( #31055 ) hexagon: KV-head team split for HMX flash attention in multicore hexagon: merge FA_HEAD_SPLIT and FA_SPLIT into single…

Phoronix

Linux 7.4 Block Updates Range From Floppy Disk Driver Fixes To Apple M4 NVMe Support · 2026-10-25 00:42 UTC

The Linux 7.4 block/storage and IO_uring updates were merged today for the ongoing merge window.

SteamOS 3.9.5 Released With Linux 7.2 Kernel, KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktop & Other Updates · 2026-10-24 18:54 UTC

On Friday Valve released SteamOS 3.9.5 as their first stable release in the SteamOS 3.9 series.

Linux's Early Boot-Time Physical Memory Allocator Sees Big Speed-Up: ~268s To ~50ms · 2026-10-24 13:00 UTC

Sent out today for the Linux 7.4 kernel were a set of memblock improvements.

Hacker News Best

America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI? · 2026-10-24 23:11 UTC

Article URL: https://www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the-fall-of-the-creative-class Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50226419 Points: 263 # Comments: 269

We should be more ambitious with the software we build · 2026-10-24 21:47 UTC

Article URL: https://danluu.com/ambitious/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50225695 Points: 282 # Comments: 247

Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin · 2026-10-24 20:30 UTC

Made this because I'm curious if anyone out there has figured out how to actually use this PHP RCE we spent the last few days panicking over.

DistroWatch Weekly

DietPi 10.8 · 2026-10-24 20:10 UTC

DietPi is a Debian-based Linux distribution, primarily developed for single-board computers such as Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi or Odroid.

DragonOS Resolute_R2 · 2026-10-24 18:09 UTC

DragonOS is a Lubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution which is focused on software defined radio (SDR).

ArchEZ 2026.10.24 · 2026-10-24 17:19 UTC

ArchEZ (formerly ZestISO) is a rolling-release desktop Linux distribution based on Arch Linux.

Ollama Releases

v0.40.11 · 2026-10-24 17:50 UTC

Speech Ollama can now generate speech on macOS.

v0.40.9 · 2026-10-24 17:50 UTC

Flint on Linux and Windows Flint now runs on Linux and Windows as well as macOS.

DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson)

Seven years from China · 2026-10-24 12:53 UTC

I first went to China in 2011 , racing for the Lotus/Jetalliance team at Zhuhai in the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup.

Be a tech bro · 2026-10-24 10:16 UTC

We should all strive to be our brother’s keeper: to look after each other, inspire each other, and simply enjoy each other’s company.

openSUSE News

openSUSE Board Election 2026 Begins · 2026-10-24 12:00 UTC

The openSUSE Election Committee has announced the start of the 2026 openSUSE Board Election.

Ahead of AI (Sebastian Raschka)

Building Reasoning Models from the Ground Up: A Full Video Course · 2026-10-24 11:14 UTC

I have written a lot about reasoning models here over the last two years on Ahead of AI, including a recent article on mechanisms to control reasoning effort levels in contemporary LLMs .

Latent Space

[AINews] Kimi 3.1 Pro 104BA-2.8T: Fable-5.1-Class Open Weights narrows Closed-AI lead to 1 month... and Pro Highspeed API with 2-3× speed · 2026-10-24 07:18 UTC

2 months ago we covered Z.ai CEO Prof Jie Tang’s prediction that we’d get a Fable-class open weights model by year end .

It's FOSS

RAID Calculator · 2026-10-24 06:13 UTC

How to use this RAID calculator It's quite simple, actually.

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