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llama.cpp Releases

b12019 · 2026-10-31 05:23 UTC

chat : strip the think block in the qwen3-coder with reasoning_format none ( #31380 ) chat : accept the think block in the qwen3-coder response format with reasoning_format none Assisted-by: Claude…

b12018 · 2026-10-31 02:24 UTC

sycl: fix f32 to q2_0/q4_0/q5_0 rounding in CPY ( #31120 ) Website: https://llama.app Attestations: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/attestations/62012681 macOS/iOS: macOS Apple Silicon (arm64)…

b12017 · 2026-10-30 20:23 UTC

rpc : delete fs_path_to_utf8() ( #31424 ) Signed-off-by: Adrien Gallouët angt@huggingface.co Website: https://llama.app Attestations: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/attestations/61919870…

Latent Space

[AINews] Google admits AI Mode hurts Search revenue; -15% $500B drop worst since 2004 IPO. AI Bear Market coming? · 2026-10-31 05:00 UTC

As an engineer-focused newsletter we only very rarely let financial stories through (our last example was Jan 2025 ), but when this is about the future of Google and Google Search , with a recently…

[AINews] Building AIE CODE: The top Coding Agent Conference · 2026-10-30 08:24 UTC

It’s a quiet day, so as we have done once per conference, we’ll do a behind the scenes look at AI Engineer , now serving 6M views a month for 1.8M monthly unique viewers .

arXiv cs.AI

LRMoE: Demand-Side Load Re-Calibration for Efficient MoE Training on Memory-Constrained Nodes · 2026-10-31 04:00 UTC

Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models offer scalable capacity for Web applications, but uneven routing creates computation and communication bottlenecks.

Excerpt from arXiv cs.AI (https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/recent), arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/), shortened.

Amortized Localized Posterior Inference for Model Calibration with Application to an Ocean Turbulence Closure · 2026-10-31 04:00 UTC

Model discrepancy may prevent a single calibration parameter from reproducing a physical response across the context domain. In addition, uncertainties in observations and contexts affect calibration and must be accounted for and quantified.

Excerpt from arXiv cs.AI (https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/recent), arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/), shortened.

ThinkJev: One Thought, Every Budget for Calibrated Typed Decisions · 2026-10-31 04:00 UTC

Many uses of language models end in a typed decision: a choice among a closed set of options, whose probabilities code can act on. Reading those probabilities from one forward pass is fast but often wrong on decisions that take several steps, such as arithmetic, counting, and date comparison.

Excerpt from arXiv cs.AI (https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/recent), arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/), shortened.

Unsloth Releases

Customize + Performance + UI/UX improvements · 2026-10-31 02:13 UTC

Make Unsloth your own with custom backgrounds and a improved UI/UX.

DistroWatch Weekly

Netdeep 4.10362 · 2026-10-31 02:02 UTC

Netdeep Secure Firewall is a comercial Linux distribution designed for firewalls, developed by Neetdeep Tecnologia Ltda in Brazil.

Lite 8.2 · 2026-10-31 01:05 UTC

Linux Lite is a beginner-friendly Linux distribution based on Ubuntu's long-term support (LTS) release and featuring the Xfce desktop.

Lyra 16.1-rc3 · 2026-10-31 00:13 UTC

Lyra OS is a Brazilian desktop and server Linux distribution based on openSUSE Tumbleweed, a rolling-release variant of openSUSE.

Claude Code Releases

v2.1.316 · 2026-10-31 01:01 UTC

What's changed Added CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_ULTRATHINK , which turns the ultrathink keyword off Added pooled group budgets to the Claude apps gateway: one monthly budget that a group's members share, on…

Phoronix

Wine 11.21 Released With Better WoW64 OpenGL Performance · 2026-10-31 00:29 UTC

Wine 11.21 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release of Wine and as we near Wine 12.0 stable release happenings getting underway in about one month with the official v12.0 release expected…

PostgreSQL 19 Running Behind Schedule Due To AI/LLM Burden · 2026-10-30 18:06 UTC

The PostgreSQL database server typically sees its annual feature release every September~October, but it's not coming until at least November if not longer this year.

Ubuntu 27.04 "Tenacious T-Rex" Opens For Development · 2026-10-30 17:32 UTC

Following this month's release of Ubuntu 26.10, Ubuntu 27.04 development formally got underway today...

NVIDIA Technical Blog

Build a Validated Kubernetes Runtime for NVIDIA Dynamo · 2026-10-30 22:52 UTC

Teams building AI applications need a repeatable path from a model configuration to a working inference endpoint.

Run AI Models for Edge Application Development with Just a Few Commands · 2026-10-30 20:33 UTC

AI is expanding beyond the data center as developers build a new generation of agents to act at the edge: monitoring driver attention and cabin conditions,...

Build Specialized Agents on a Stack You Control with NVIDIA NemoClaw · 2026-10-30 15:11 UTC

Building an autonomous agent requires a model, a harness, and domain-specific tools.

Simon Willison's Weblog

dbreunig/nesformer · 2026-10-30 21:59 UTC

Inspired by qwenputer by Divyansh Agrawal, Drew Breunig baked a working emulator for a Nintendo Entertainment System 6502 CPU into the weights of Qwen3.5-4B.

OpenAI Codex CLI Releases

rust-v0.167.0-alpha.1 · 2026-10-30 21:47 UTC

Release 0.167.0-alpha.1

Ars Technica AI

Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers · 2026-10-30 21:41 UTC

Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl recently declared “it’s time for a renaissance in energy and in supersonic flight” as the supersonic airliner company unveiled a Colorado factory dedicated to making…

Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours · 2026-10-30 21:09 UTC

An official extension for Anthropic’s Claude model was backdoored and threatened as many as 5,000 developers' machines, multiple sources reported Friday.

Dartmouth's provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job · 2026-10-30 20:40 UTC

On August 9, 2026, Dartmouth College provost Santiago Schnell wrote a Washington Post op-ed called "Universities are fighting AI cheating.

OMG! Ubuntu

Ubuntu 27.04 ‘Tenacious T-Rex’ opens for development · 2026-10-30 21:15 UTC

Development on Ubuntu 27.04, codenamed ‘Tenacious T-Rex’, has officially begun.

Hugging Face Blog

nemotron-halloween · 2026-10-30 17:57 UTC

LWN.net

[$] Removing binder.c · 2026-10-30 17:46 UTC

The final talk at Kangrejos 2026 was about the removal of the C implementation of Android's Binder driver , the primary interprocess communication mechanism used on Android devices.

Haas: Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault · 2026-10-30 16:52 UTC

PostgreSQL developer Robert Haas writes about the struggles the project has encountered in putting together its next release.

Remote code execution on Linux systems with multipath TCP · 2026-10-30 15:45 UTC

On October 27, LLM provider Anthropic reported on a remotely exploitable use-after-free bug affecting systems with multipath TCP listeners open.

NixOS Announcements

Hashsync: Copy Nix closures efficiently via ssh · 2026-10-30 17:42 UTC

Hello Nix community, I’d like to announce a project that I just published, hashsync: GitHub - someplaceguy/hashsync: Run a command over SSH, deduplicating its output or input against files stored on…

Announcing NixOSBuilder: a browser-based wizard that generates a flake-based NixOS config · 2026-10-30 07:38 UTC

Hi all, I’ve put together a small tool called NixOSBuilder and I’d like some feedback from people who know NixOS better than I do.

Interconnects

Was I wrong about open models & cyber risks? · 2026-10-30 17:36 UTC

Last week coined the term “ Black October “ after an onslaught of critical vulnerability disclosures, including PHP2Shell and GitLab, signified the moment when the cyber risks of AI models started to…

9to5Linux

Shelly 3.1.10 Brings More Reliable AUR Builds and a New “Shell” Progress Bar · 2026-10-30 16:40 UTC

Shelly 3.1.10 graphical package manager for Arch Linux distributions is now available for download with a new “Shell” progress bar for the command-line interface, AUR build improvements, and more.

Linux Kernel Releases

next-20261030: linux-next · 2026-10-30 14:27 UTC

Version: next-20261030 (linux-next) Released: 2026-10-30

Manjaro Announcements

[Testing Update] 2026-10-30 - GNOME 51, Plasma 6.8, COSMIC 1.10.0 · 2026-10-30 14:16 UTC

Hello Manjaro user community!

Microsoft Research Blog

From synthetic enterprise data evaluations to real Microsoft Copilot AI confidence · 2026-10-30 13:05 UTC

At a glance Evaluating Microsoft Copilot at enterprise scale requires test data that captures the full complexity of real organizations, yet real enterprise data contains sensitive information that…

Hugging Face Transformers Releases

Patch release v5.22.1 · 2026-10-30 09:36 UTC

We just had to fix the documentation!

OpenAI News

Making it easier for websites to express AI training preferences · 2026-10-30 09:30 UTC

OpenAI will honor a shared robots.txt signal to help website operators communicate their AI training preferences to participating providers.

Community safety report and new protections for teens · 2026-10-30 09:00 UTC

OpenAI is strengthening violence prevention in ChatGPT with expanded safeguards, earlier interventions, and a new commitment to public safety reporting.

vLLM Releases

v0.33.0rc2: [ROCm][Bugfix] Skip AITER tuned GEMM when M*N >= 2^31 on gfx950 (#64567) · 2026-10-30 09:10 UTC

Signed-off-by: Micah Williamson micah.williamson@amd.com (cherry picked from commit 6d01893 )

openSUSE News

Planet News Roundup · 2026-10-30 08:00 UTC

This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org .

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