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The short version
- Linux: OpenShot 4.1 Released With Auto-Optimize, CLI Automation & ARM64 Linux Builds
- Linux: OpenShot 4.1 Video Editor Is Out with Native ARM64 Linux Builds and Text Editing
- Linux: Enlightenment 0.28 Released With Many Improvements
- Local AI: b12027: llama : enable tensor split for LFM3 (#31431)
- Agents: Agents Prompt People: Using Agents for Long-Horizon Financial Work
DistroWatch Weekly
AstrOS is an immutable Linux distribution with COSMIC as the preferred desktop environment.
Obarun is an Arch-based Linux distribution featuring the S6 init software in place of systemd.
Calam Arch Installer is an Arch-based Linux distribution created to facilitate the installation of an Arch Linux system to a hard disk.
Phoronix
Just a friendly heads up that Phoronix.com and associated sites will be down briefly at around midnight PST / 3AM EST on 1 November for a failed drive in the NVMe SSD RAID array...
OpenShot is closing out the month of October by releasing OpenShot 4.1 as the latest major feature release for this useful open-source video editing solution...
Enlightenment 0.27 released at the beginning of 2025 and since then there's been no major feature update, falling off their roughly 12 month release cadence.
llama.cpp Releases
hexagon : fix DMA transfers with strides > 24 bits On v75+ the 2D DMA descriptor stores row_size and strides in 24 bits.
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5.5
llama : fix rotation of attention tensors in layers with shared KV (#…
Simon Willison's Weblog
Parameter Labs describe an exploit they found against ChatGPT's implementation of the artifacts pattern (OpenAI used to call this "Canvas" but it looks like the latest revision is called HTML…
Release: datasette-llm 0.1a9 I have some big upgrades to Datasette Agent in the pipeline, but in the meantime here's a tiny user experience improvement to the underlying datasette-llm plugin.
LWN.net
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 11.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, aspell, bind, bind9.18, container-tools:1.0, container-tools:rhel8, curl, dogtag-pki, ignition,…
The Hacktron blog documents how the group was able to compromise the GNU Savannah forge and could have pushed malware into any of the projects hosted there.
9to5Linux
OpenShot 4.1 open-source video editor is now available for download with native text editing, native Linux ARM64 builds, CLI automation, and more.
Linux Mint devs unveil new system monitor, archive manager, and terminal emulator apps for Linux Mint, along with a preview pane for Nemo and hibernation support.
Enlightenment 0.28 desktop environment arrives with PipeWire support, a NetworkManager module, initial NetBSD support, mixer actions, an integrated clipboard history module, and more.
OMG! Ubuntu
Sanket is a GNOME Shell extension that lets you rejig how the desktop’s date menu, calendar, notifications and Quick Settings look and behave – and then some.
Latent Space
At AI Engineer New York this month, we sat down with Aman Singh , the lead AI Engineer at Arca , an “AI-native” company providing wealth management services.
Linux Mint Blog
Hello everyone, Before we start with the news, I’d like to thank all the people who support this project.
It's FOSS
Collabora has published its own account of the Danish ministry pilot that earlier coverage, including ours, had described as Denmark moving off Microsoft's office software.
vLLM Releases
[CI][Bugfix] Pin the ColUltraVBERT test checkpoint to the revision vL…
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