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45 items from the last 24 hours across 22 sources · 2026-11-03 (generated 2026-11-03 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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The short version
- Linux: AerynOS 2026.11 Released With New Installer Option, Other Improvements
- Linux: aerynOS 2026.11 Is Out with GNOME 51, KDE Plasma 6.8, COSMIC 1.11, and Budgie 10.10
- Linux: [$] The second part of the 7.4 merge window
- Local AI: Preparing our next security sprint to harden OpenAI
- Agents: OpenAI Codex CLI: 0.167.0-alpha.4
llama.cpp Releases
hexagon: tiled hvx permute ( #31446 ) hexagon: add tiled HVX transpose path for permuted CONT/CPY Permuted copies where dst dim 0 is strided in src, but some other src dim is contiguous, used to fall…
dflash: copy hidden features via device copies ( #31506 ) Website: https://llama.app Attestations: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/attestations/62913415 macOS/iOS: macOS Apple Silicon (arm64)…
mtmd: Pocket tts - support for voices without voice cloning ( #31429 ) feat: support PocketTTS voices with no voice cloning The kyutai/pocket-tts-without-voice-cloning weights ship predefined voices…
Latent Space
Amid a deepening bear market for AI/tech (worthy of dark humor ) with Anthropic bonds receiving a “junk” rating and OpenAI fundraise headlines , we continue to see very surprising capability finds in…
In this episode, we chat with Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora, following the announcement of their $550M Series E at an $8.8B valuation a couple weeks ago.
Legora can’t read a single trace of what its agent does for a lawyer.
Simon Willison's Weblog
Genius piece of OSINT by Colsto, who demonstrates how you can take almost imperceptible background noise of planes from a video soundtrack, figure out their Doppler curves, then cross reference them…
I sent out the October edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter .
Release: llm 0.37 There's a lot of stuff in this new release of my LLM CLI tool and Python library, representing around two months of accumulated features and fixes.
OMG! Ubuntu
Affinity, the free design suite made by Canva, is coming to Linux.
Linux Mint’s next release will offer a hibernation mode, so you can close your laptop mid-session and not worry about returning to a drained battery.
Hot off the back of price rises it announced in October, the Raspberry Pi Foundation today said the cost of its Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computers is going up again.
DistroWatch Weekly
Expirion Linux is a Devuan-based desktop distribution which offers LXQt and Xfce desktop editions.
Voyager Live is an Xubuntu-based distribution and live DVD showcasing the Xfce desktop environment.
Security Onion is a specialist, security-oriented Linux distribution based on Oracle Linux.
OpenAI Codex CLI Releases
Ollama Releases
What's Changed ci: pin buildx to workaround deadlock by @dhiltgen in #19373 openai: preserve readable Responses input content by @hoyyeva in #19192 mlx: sort long top-k rows in chunks by @dhiltgen in…
Claude Code Releases
What's changed Added a warning to /schedule when a new cloud scheduled task gets connectors you did not ask for, with how to remove them Added a check that asks before a web or shell tool call sends…
Phoronix
Intel today posted a set of patches for bringing SoundWire support in the upstream Intel AVS driver for Raptor Lake.
AerynOS 2026.11 was released today along with a lengthy blog post highlighting the recent development work on this original Linux distribution...
The Mesa RADV driver that provides Vulkan API support for AMD Radeon GPUs on Linux has adopted its own policy around AI / large language models (LLMs) for code contributions...
NVIDIA Technical Blog
In distributed AI workloads, a single error can produce a cascade of symptoms.
As distributed AI training scales, failures across hardware and software dependencies increasingly disrupt training progress, making fast, reliable recovery...
AI agents are learning to do more by working together.
9to5Linux
GIMP 3.2.8 open-source image editor is now available for download with Offset as a non-destructive filter, DPI information when copying an image to clipboard, and other changes.
aerynOS 2026.11 has been released today and it's now available for download for this independently-develop distribution featuring some of the latest and greatest GNU/Linux technologies and Open…
Audacity 4.0.2 open-source audio editor is now available for download with automatic saving during recording, trim, clear selection, and zoom shortcuts, improved playback latency, and more.
SGLang Releases
Ubuntu Blog
Introduction We have received several questions about CVE-2026-98432, a flaw in how the Linux kernel sets up IPv4 TCP connections, present in Linux kernel versions 4.4 and later.
Ars Technica AI
Apple’s new CEO, John Ternus, is apparently pushing the tech company’s development of household robots—and the first to debut may be a home robot designed to autonomously roam around while supporting…
Last week, Anthropic introduced a new system prompt designed to stop its Claude models from re-creating specific, existing video games.
OpenAI News
OpenAI is raising Security Bug Bounty rewards and introducing report quality, loyalty, and priority campaign bonuses for independent security researchers.
OpenAI is preparing its next internal security sprint with Cathedral Systems to test and strengthen its defenses using AI.
How OpenAI built Pando, a Git-compatible backend designed for the scale of development that Codex makes possible.
It's FOSS
Yet another new Linux distribution has landed on Arch Linux as its foundation of choice.
Okay, killed by Ubuntu is an exaggeration, as Ubuntu is not the only Linux distro doing this.
At least that's what VLC thinks when protesting the new French law.
LWN.net
The 7.4 merge window, which closed on November 1, included a record-breaking 18,591 non-merge changesets.
The Google Threat Intelligence blog describes, in great detail , the XCPE botnet, which has just been taken down.
We recently looked at how the kernel community is dealing with the firehose of vulnerability reports, but said little about how users of the kernel are responding.
Linux Kernel Releases
Version: next-20261102 (linux-next) Released: 2026-11-02
Import AI
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research.
vLLM Releases
Highlights This release features 927 commits from 389 contributors (122 new)!
Ai2 News (OLMo, Tülu)
Nextcloud chose Olmo 3 for fully open, self-hosted AI, earning its highest Ethical AI rating while making local AI practical on consumer hardware.
Omarchy Releases
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