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- Linux: GIMP 3.2.8 Released With Many Refinements, Numerous Security Fixes Due To AI Reports
- Linux: Fedora Asahi Remix 45 Released for Apple Silicon Macs with KDE Plasma 6.8
- Linux: NetBSD 11.1 Released With Security Fixes & Other Improvements
- Local AI: Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too
- Agents: OpenAI Codex CLI: 0.168.0-alpha.1
llama.cpp Releases
hexagon: initial support for LIGHTNING_INDEXER op hex-lght-idxr: hmx for prefill hex-lght-idxr: q8_0 decode gather transpose, two-block decode compute hex-lght-idxr: pipelined hmx path for decode and…
mtmd: accurate support for qwen3-vl video prompt format ( #31619 ) Website: https://llama.app Attestations: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/attestations/63416358 macOS/iOS: macOS Apple Silicon…
model, mtmd: add chatterbox TTS support ( #30993 ) add chatterbox TTS support Co-authored-by: Pascal admin@serveurperso.com add built-in voice support rm redundant code clean up clean up 2 Apply…
arXiv cs.AI
Language models can follow a directive when they believe they are monitored and abandon it when they believe they are not, a pattern termed Alignment Faking.
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.
Geometric certificates make mathematical claims about specified estimator objects, while robotic action requires a physical transform, a service decision, and timely proof support. We present CARD, a proof-carrying interface that keeps these objects distinct and records how they combine.
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.
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) connects large language model agents to external tools and services through official SDKs that implement message validation and session logic.
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.
arXiv cs.CL
Next-visit diagnosis prediction forecasts the diagnoses documented at a patient's next encounter, turning retrospective electronic health records into prospective clinical prediction.
Excerpt from arXiv cs.CL (https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/recent), arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/), shortened.
Large language models provide a variety of responses at inference (generation) that conventionally depend on a temperature parameter. Using a conditional mutual information approach, a quantitative, entropy based analysis of response variety is given.
Excerpt from arXiv cs.CL (https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/recent), arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/), shortened.
Reasoning substantially improves language models' ability to solve difficult problems, but long reasoning traces make these gains expensive. Efficient reasoning should express useful analysis in fewer tokens by reducing repetition and text that adds little value to solving the problem.
Excerpt from arXiv cs.CL (https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/recent), arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/), shortened.
OpenAI Codex CLI Releases
Mirror of the unmodified libcap 2.75 source archive used to build Bubblewrap for Codex's Linux musl packages.
DistroWatch Weekly
CapivaraOS is a Brazilian desktop and server Linux distribution based on Fedora.
Ludora is a gaming-ready, Fedora-based Linux distribution with built-in bootable snapshots.
Chimera Linux is an independently-developed distribution which uses an unusual combination of technologies behind the scenes.
Phoronix
Domicile is a new Wayland compositor that leverages Chromium for allowing custom Linux desktops to be built using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/TypeScript...
GIMP 3.2.8 is out today as the newest stable release of this open-source image editing application that's most popular on the Linux desktop...
Following the release of NetBSD 11.0 in August, NetBSD 11.1 is out today with a collection of security fixes and other improvements...
Claude Code Releases
What's changed Added a record of your answer when Claude Code asks to turn on the mods it writes in a session Added assume_role on mantle upstreams of the Claude apps gateway, for a role in another…
Ollama Releases
What's Changed mlx: load bundled CUDA libraries in-process on Linux by @dhiltgen in #19433 model: add MiMo V2.6 model support by @dhiltgen in #19400 Full Changelog : v0.40.14...v0.40.15-rc0
What's Changed ollama launch claude now applies the model's output token limit for Claude Code, so cloud models no longer run into the 128k default cap Cloud web search responses on /api/chat are now…
OMG! Ubuntu
GIMP 3.2.8 is out, the fourth maintenance update in the current stable series, which first launched in March 2026.
Developers who use Launchpad can now use a USB FIDO2 security key to restrict API access, which makes any stolen login details useless without it.
Ars Technica AI
Russian tech companies are scrambling to harden and hide their data centers underground after Ukrainian drone strikes damaged facilities housing AI supercomputers and disrupted cloud services for…
While Google is trying to move beyond Chromebooks , the ubiquity of these devices has made the company's education products huge in schools.
NVIDIA Technical Blog
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,...
As distributed AI training scales, failures across hardware and software dependencies increasingly disrupt training progress, making fast, reliable recovery...
In distributed AI workloads, a single error can produce a cascade of symptoms.
9to5Linux
KDE Plasma 6.7.6 is now available as the seventh maintenance release in the KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environment series with various improvements and bug fixes.
Fedora Asahi Remix 45 distribution is now available for Apple Silicon Macs based on Fedora Linux 45 and featuring the KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop environment.
LibreOffice 26.2.7 is now available for download as the seventh and last maintenance update to the LibreOffice 26.2 office suite series with 20 bug fixes.
NixOS Announcements
Path traversal in `/log` endpoint: arbitrary file read under `$HYDRA_DATA` · Advisory · NixOS/hydra · GitHub Stored XSS via the homepage links of projects/packages · Advisory · NixOS/hydra · GitHub…
Hugging Face Blog
Microsoft Research Blog
LWN.net
The openSUSE project has announced the release of openSUSE Leap 16.1.
The Debian project has wrestled with the topic of LLM usage for years, which culminated in a general-resolution vote this August.
Google DeepMind Blog
Learn how Google Antigravity and our Cheminformatics Skills accelerate drug discovery workflows, search compounds, and propose novel rigidified macrocycles.
Simon Willison's Weblog
Yesterday's hot paper was Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights by Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang, and Omar Khattab.
Linux Kernel Releases
Version: next-20261103 (linux-next) Released: 2026-11-03
It's FOSS
Building a Fedora release means tracking an enormous amount of formal change proposals planned for each release cycle on a public Change Set page, where every entry carries an owner and a status.
Personally, I have never owned an Apple device, mostly due to its pricey nature and how the brand loves to lock people in their walled garden .
Adobe charges $60 a month.
Unsloth Releases
Unsloth now has Glass themes and more customization options for backgrounds, greetings and chats.
Fedora Magazine
Fedora 45 is now available!
Fedora Silverblue is an operating system for your desktop built on Fedora Linux .
Two legacy NetworkManager VPN plugins— NetworkManager-vpnc and NetworkManager-fortisslvpn —are retiring and will be obsolete, starting in Fedora Linux 45 .
Open WebUI Releases
OpenAI News
Discover how ChatGPT and Codex are helping engineers accelerate CAD, PCB design, simulation, and other workflows across the physical world.
Cisco combines network intelligence with OpenAI models to strengthen enterprise security.
Discover how Heimstaden uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to transform property management, cut costs, and empower employees across Europe.
openSUSE News
Leap 16.1 did not ship on the same day as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1, as stated in this article.
Ai2 News (OLMo, Tülu)
StateBench tests how language models track changing information across long documents at four difficulty levels, revealing where models struggle and how targeted training helps recurrent and hybrid…
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