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llama.cpp Releases

b12099: hexagon: add LIGHTNING_INDEXER support (#31289) · 2026-11-04 05:17 UTC

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…

b12098 · 2026-11-04 03:53 UTC

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…

b12097 · 2026-11-04 03:32 UTC

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

Alignment Faking Depends on the Value, Not Just the Model · 2026-11-04 05:00 UTC

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.

CARD: A Proof-Carrying Certificate-to-Action Interface for Relative-Measurement Graphs · 2026-11-04 05:00 UTC

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.

MCPGuard: Finding Conformance Gaps in MCP SDKs via Dual-Track Analysis and Dynamic Adjudication · 2026-11-04 05:00 UTC

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

Rethinking Next-Visit Diagnosis Prediction Beyond Aggregate Metrics: Retrieval--Memory Multi-Agent Adjudication · 2026-11-04 05:00 UTC

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.

A Conditional Mutual Information Analysis of Response Variety in Language Models · 2026-11-04 05:00 UTC

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.

Why Pay for Long Reasoning When Rewrite Do Trick? Causal Effects of Reasoning History Compaction on Future Generation and Agent Cost · 2026-11-04 05:00 UTC

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

0.168.0-alpha.1 · 2026-11-04 02:58 UTC

Release 0.168.0-alpha.1

rust-v0.167.0-alpha.5 · 2026-11-04 00:45 UTC

Release 0.167.0-alpha.5

libcap 2.75 source archive · 2026-11-03 23:04 UTC

Mirror of the unmodified libcap 2.75 source archive used to build Bubblewrap for Codex's Linux musl packages.

DistroWatch Weekly

CapivaraOS 2.0.0 · 2026-11-04 02:07 UTC

CapivaraOS is a Brazilian desktop and server Linux distribution based on Fedora.

Ludora 45.0 · 2026-11-04 01:57 UTC

Ludora is a gaming-ready, Fedora-based Linux distribution with built-in bootable snapshots.

Chimera 20261103 · 2026-11-03 22:50 UTC

Chimera Linux is an independently-developed distribution which uses an unusual combination of technologies behind the scenes.

Phoronix

Domicile Desktop Brings Web Technologies To Building Wayland Desktops · 2026-11-04 01:32 UTC

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 Released With Many Refinements, Numerous Security Fixes Due To AI Reports · 2026-11-03 22:21 UTC

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...

NetBSD 11.1 Released With Security Fixes & Other Improvements · 2026-11-03 22:09 UTC

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

v2.1.318 · 2026-11-04 00:01 UTC

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

v0.40.15 · 2026-11-03 22:52 UTC

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

v0.40.14 · 2026-11-03 06:57 UTC

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 released with improved text tool, performance · 2026-11-03 21:59 UTC

GIMP 3.2.8 is out, the fourth maintenance update in the current stable series, which first launched in March 2026.

Canonical adds FIDO2 hardware key support to Launchpad · 2026-11-03 17:05 UTC

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

Ukraine’s drone strikes spur hasty Russian plans for underground data centers · 2026-11-03 20:39 UTC

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…

Google will let schools skip AI tools, but they have to give up search, too · 2026-11-03 17:54 UTC

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

Run AI Models for Edge Application Development with Just a Few Commands · 2026-11-03 20:37 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,...

Keep Distributed Training Running with Automated Workload Recovery · 2026-11-03 18:04 UTC

As distributed AI training scales, failures across hardware and software dependencies increasingly disrupt training progress, making fast, reliable recovery...

Diagnose Distributed AI Workload Failures with NVIDIA Attribution · 2026-11-03 17:47 UTC

In distributed AI workloads, a single error can produce a cascade of symptoms.

9to5Linux

KDE Plasma 6.7.6 Desktop Environment Is Now Available with More Improvements · 2026-11-03 17:26 UTC

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 Released for Apple Silicon Macs with KDE Plasma 6.8 · 2026-11-03 17:20 UTC

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 Out as the Last Update in the LibreOffice 26.2 Series · 2026-11-03 12:52 UTC

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

Recent security vulnerabilities in Hydra · 2026-11-03 17:19 UTC

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

Learn the rules: The hacker mindset · 2026-11-03 17:14 UTC

For some, rules pose limitations.

LWN.net

OpenSUSE Leap 16.1 · 2026-11-03 17:09 UTC

The openSUSE project has announced the release of openSUSE Leap 16.1.

[$] LLM reviews for Debian's new queue spark debate · 2026-11-03 16:28 UTC

The Debian project has wrestled with the topic of LLM usage for years, which culminated in a general-resolution vote this August.

Fedora Linux 45 released · 2026-11-03 15:11 UTC

Fedora Linux 45 has been released.

Google DeepMind Blog

Agentic cheminformatics with Google Antigravity · 2026-11-03 17:01 UTC

Learn how Google Antigravity and our Cheminformatics Skills accelerate drug discovery workflows, search compounds, and propose novel rigidified macrocycles.

Simon Willison's Weblog

Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too · 2026-11-03 16:29 UTC

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

next-20261103: linux-next · 2026-11-03 15:22 UTC

Version: next-20261103 (linux-next) Released: 2026-11-03

It's FOSS

What's New in Fedora 45 · 2026-11-03 15:00 UTC

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.

These Linux Distros Can Run on Apple Silicon Mac · 2026-11-03 14:06 UTC

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 .

One Open-Source Repo to Replace Adobe, Microsoft, and Salesforce · 2026-11-03 12:31 UTC

Adobe charges $60 a month.

Unsloth Releases

Glass Theme, Personalize & Faster Generation · 2026-11-03 14:45 UTC

Unsloth now has Glass themes and more customization options for backgrounds, greetings and chats.

Fedora Magazine

What’s New for Fedora Atomic Desktops in Fedora Linux 45 · 2026-11-03 14:28 UTC

Fedora 45 is now available!

How to Rebase to Fedora Linux 45 on Silverblue · 2026-11-03 14:00 UTC

Fedora Silverblue is an operating system for your desktop built on Fedora Linux .

Migrating away from unmaintained NetworkManager VPN plugins (vpnc and fortisslvpn) · 2026-11-03 14:00 UTC

Two legacy NetworkManager VPN plugins— NetworkManager-vpnc and NetworkManager-fortisslvpn —are retiring and will be obsolete, starting in Fedora Linux 45 .

Open WebUI Releases

v0.13.0 · 2026-11-03 12:23 UTC

Added 📑 Tabbed workspace.

OpenAI News

Accelerating engineering for the physical world · 2026-11-03 12:00 UTC

Discover how ChatGPT and Codex are helping engineers accelerate CAD, PCB design, simulation, and other workflows across the physical world.

How Cisco defends at machine speed with OpenAI · 2026-11-03 08:00 UTC

Cisco combines network intelligence with OpenAI models to strengthen enterprise security.

Heimstaden is changing residential real estate management with AI · 2026-11-03 08:00 UTC

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 Unites Traditional and Immutable Linux in One Release · 2026-11-03 12:00 UTC

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: Testing how language models track state changes over long documents · 2026-11-03 08:00 UTC

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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