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llama.cpp Releases
Quant: OCP FP8 E4M3 support ( #27512 ) WIP OCP FP8 E4M3 support Fix python type-checker Materialize input_scales also for FP8 when converting Fix conversion of…
model: mistral le chonk ( #31376 ) llama: extend DSA and sdpark to new model fix ci Website: https://llama.app Attestations: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/attestations/61557038 macOS/iOS:…
llama : reuse the tensor staging buffer and skip the direct-io bounce buffer ( #31321 ) Website: https://llama.app Attestations: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/attestations/61552516 macOS/iOS:…
OMG! Ubuntu
Adjusting active noise cancellation (ANC) on Nothing or CMF earbuds means taking out your phone, opening the official mobile app and twiddling a setting there.
If you run your own music streaming server using Jellyfin or Navidrome/Subsonic, and you want a solid desktop player to browse and stream your library in, Gelly is worth a look.
Claude Code Releases
What's changed Added permissions.blockWritesOutsideWorkingDirectories : Write, Edit and NotebookEdit refuse paths outside the working directories in every permission mode Added an optional groups…
Phoronix
The RISC-V architecture changes were merged today for the Linux 7.4 kernel with one nice optimization standing out...
The F2FS (Flash Friendly File-System) improvements have been merged for Linux 7.4 to further enhance this flash-optimized solution...
SGLang Releases
Red Hat Blog
Fierce Network - Telcos can cash in on AI, not just pay for it: Red HatRed Hat's Joe Fernandes discusses how open models can help telcos move from renting AI capacity to owning it and selling…
Simon Willison's Weblog
Earlier this month Anthropic announced a generous new benefit for their Max and Team subscriptions: $100, $200, and $500 per month subscribers would get the equivalent quantity of (expiring) credits…
How I Built the Most AI-Pilled Company in the World Don't be put off by the clickbait headline, this piece by Jacob Sansbury describing how they are building Spawn is a fascinating exploration of the…
every product i use should just be a headless mcp, that feeds into an agent, where i never have to think about anything underneath.
NVIDIA Technical Blog
AI agents have expanded inference from single-turn interactions into multi-step workflows that reason, invoke tools, coordinate subagents, and carry growing...
OpenAI Codex CLI Releases
New Features Added keyboard-driven transcript selection with word, line, and page motions, integrated search, and configurable shortcuts.
Microsoft Research Blog
Ars Technica AI
President Donald Trump has declared the imports of foreign-made factory robots to be a national security threat—ordering new US negotiations with trading partners while holding out the possibility of…
Google parent Alphabet reported its Q3 financial results on Wednesday afternoon, showing a healthy rise in revenue for the months of July to September.
9to5Linux
Tor Browser 16.0 is now available for download as a major update to this open-source anonymous web browser based on the Tor technologies and Firefox web browser with ARM support on Linux and more.
fireperf is a new open-source network performance measurement tool for those who work with firewalls, routers, and other systems that maintain a state for each network connection.
TUXEDO Computers unveils the TUXEDO Nano Pro Gen15 mini PC with a fast Intel processor, a wide range of internal and external ports, and up to 128 GB of DDR5 RAM.
DistroWatch Weekly
Proton OS is a desktop-oriented Linux distribution based on Debian's "Stable" branch.
CarotOS is a specialist Debian-based Linux distribution designed primarily for cybersecurity education in a classroom.
OpenAI News
OpenAI’s updated Model Spec outlines five core values to guide more capable AI toward sound judgment, human agency, and faithfulness to human intent.
OpenAI uses layered monitoring to detect frontier model misalignment and unauthorized agent behavior so responders can intervene before incidents escalate.
Ropes & Gray is developing AI for transactional diligence with OpenAI.
Latent Space
This month Elorian launched its first visual reasoning model , Glimpse .
It’s a good thing we published our Opus 5.5 podcast calling it the world’s best model before today’s launch.
Hugging Face Transformers Releases
New Models Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) Mistral Large 4 is Mistral's largest and most capable model to date: a 1 trillion-parameter natively multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model with 49 billion active…
** Fix rope_scaling setter for configs that assign it during init ( #50080 ) We broke remote code loading in vllm, this fixes it sorry everyone!
LWN.net
The foundation of the design for containers in the kernel is that there isn't one; there is no container abstraction that the kernel recognizes.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (cjose, emacs, expat, gcc-toolset-15-gcc, java-17-openjdk, java-25-openjdk, kernel, kernel-rt, libX11, libXi, libXrender, libXtst, mod_auth_openidc:2.3,…
It's FOSS
Amutable has opened signups for design partners to test an immutable, image-based system that ships every change as a signed update.
openEuler has two fresh releases out.
Canonical has restarted development of Ubuntu Core Desktop, an immutable, snap-based take on Ubuntu that sat dormant after a developer preview in 2023.
Linux Kernel Releases
Version: next-20261029 (linux-next) Released: 2026-10-29
Hugging Face Blog
Mistral AI News
The weights of Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) are now open.
Open WebUI Releases
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