$ checkup --date 2026-11-07

b12182 · 2026-11-07 03:35 UTC

meta : raise the compute view limit for buffers with few tensors ( #31447 ) ggml-backend-meta : minimum number of compute views per buffer Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5.5 tests : revert the deepseek41…

b12181: hexagon: fuse post-norm residual add into RMS_NORM_MUL (#31822) · 2026-11-07 00:06 UTC

hexagon: fuse post-norm residual add into RMS_NORM_MUL hex-fusion: refactor RMS_NORM fusion and add dedicated RMS_NORM_MUL_ADD opcode Improves performance by keeping things in HVX registers.

b12180 · 2026-11-06 23:24 UTC

model: add Kimi-K3.1-Pro text model ( #31779 ) model: add Kimi-K3.1-Pro text model K3 with the full-attention MLA layers replaced by DSA: on this checkpoint 24 of the 93 layers carry a lightning…

[AINews] Anthropic IPO: Whither Now? · 2026-11-07 03:04 UTC

It’s a relatively quiet news day, and the AI market rout we referenced obliquely two days ago has deepened, though it might be leveling off not even halfway into bear market territory (-10% on…

Controlling Biology - Fabian Theis, Helmholtz Munich · 2026-11-06 15:10 UTC

Fabian Theis has been one of the key players in the various iterations of the Virtual Cell concept and initiatives.

[AINews] Inkling 2 Small: 17A-594B trained in 68 hours on 12T tokens, beating Muse Spark · 2026-11-06 10:35 UTC

Build AI systems with context graphs and agentic memory.

FreeBSD 15.2 Beta 1 Allows Experimental Cross-Building Of Base Packages On Linux/macOS · 2026-11-07 00:04 UTC

FreeBSD 15.2 Beta 1 is out today as the release dance kicks off in working toward the next installment of FreeBSD 15...

ReactOS Lands Initial USB3 Driver Support · 2026-11-06 21:49 UTC

After years of work, ReactOS as the "open-source Windows" operating system striving for Windows program and driver compatibility now has an initial USB 3.0 driver stack in place...

A RISC-V Based TEE With AMD Zen 6 CPUs · 2026-11-06 19:30 UTC

An interesting technical detail I noticed today from the latest AMD Linux activity is that Zen 6 processors apparently are featuring a RISC-V based Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) where in the…

Galactic Mandate 08 · 2026-11-06 22:48 UTC

Galactic Mandate Linux is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution featuring the Budgie desktop and a science fiction theme.

VailuxOS 1.6.1.6 · 2026-11-06 21:38 UTC

VailuxOS is a German, desktop-oriented Linux distribution based on Ubuntu's long-term support (LTS) branch or Debian's "Stable" branch.

FreeBSD 15.2-BETA1 · 2026-11-06 20:29 UTC

FreeBSD is a UNIX-like operating system for the i386, amd64, IA-64, arm, MIPS, powerpc, ppc64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC platforms based on U.C.

Speed Up Image Generation with FLUX 3 Image Klein on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs · 2026-11-06 22:20 UTC

When deploying diffusion models in design tools, image editors, and visual production workflows, developers must account for inference latency.

How NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS Maximizes AI Factory Throughput and Efficiency · 2026-11-06 18:40 UTC

Every unused watt is capacity left on the table.

Accelerating Reinforcement Learning Weight Refit with the Reshard Collective · 2026-11-06 18:22 UTC

During reinforcement learning (RL) post-training, training trajectories are generated on the fly by running inference with the current policy model.

0.169.0-alpha.2 · 2026-11-06 22:17 UTC

Release 0.169.0-alpha.2

Videos from XDC 2026 are available · 2026-11-06 20:25 UTC

Videos from the 2026 X.Org Developers Conference (XDC) are now available on YouTube .

[$] Locking down hibernation for the winter · 2026-11-06 18:51 UTC

When a computer hibernates, the kernel writes the contents of memory to disk and then shuts the system down.

Seven stable kernels with fixes for three Xen vulnerabilities · 2026-11-06 18:48 UTC

Hot on the heels of the previous two stable kernels , Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.3.3 , 6.18.62 , 6.12.116 , 6.6.162 , 6.1.192 , 5.15.225 , and 5.10.274 stable kernels.

Brave Browser has been dropped · 2026-11-06 19:43 UTC

The Brave Browser and Brave Origin have been dropped from unstable ( PR ) and 26.05 ( PR ).

Security Advisory: `darwin.linux-builder` leaks its SSH private key into the Nix store and exposes its SSH port to the network · 2026-11-06 17:31 UTC

Summary Two issues in the macOS Linux builder ( darwin.linux-builder , darwin.linux-builder-x86_64 , darwin.linux-builder-vz and nix-darwin’s nix.linux-builder ) let other users gain trusted access…

Announcing nixpkgs-ctl: the best friend of a nixpkgs contributor · 2026-11-06 06:10 UTC

Hi all, You might have heard my name from Alejandra , the Nix formatter.

7.3.3: stable · 2026-11-06 18:19 UTC

Version: 7.3.3 (stable) Released: 2026-11-06 Source: linux-7.3.3.tar.xz PGP Signature: linux-7.3.3.tar.sign Patch: full ( incremental ) ChangeLog: ChangeLog-7.3.3

Global menu extension puts app menus in GNOME’s top panel · 2026-11-06 17:43 UTC

A new global menu extension for GNOME Shell was released this week, and unlike ones you may might tried (and given up on) in the past, this one seems to work well.

“Does Meta think we can’t read?” Meta abandons sketchy commercial terms update. · 2026-11-06 17:43 UTC

After weeks of backlash —and a failed attempt to quell it —Meta has indefinitely delayed plans to update its commercial terms and require Meta Business account users to allow extensive AI training on…

Could potential AI clones of GTA VI force a quicker official port? · 2026-11-06 16:19 UTC

Yesterday, when reporting on emerging efforts to pipe the console version of GTA VI through a PC's DLSS-powered Nvidia GPU , we mentioned in passing that PC players could instead just wait for the…

Quoting Nilay Patel · 2026-11-06 17:13 UTC

The products aren't good enough to sell people on the costs.

v2.1.319 · 2026-11-06 17:04 UTC

What's changed Changed auto mode with telemetry or feature flags off, including behind LLM gateways: calls the server can't check are asked about or denied, with no fallback to the built-in…

Ubuntu Summit 26.10: Less than a week away! · 2026-11-06 16:43 UTC

Here in London, the long summer has stepped aside for cooler nights and damp, misty mornings.

The missing piece: bringing up to 15 years of support to Zephyr for microcontroller-based ECUs · 2026-11-06 13:37 UTC

We recently announced the launch of Zephyr 26.04 LTS , bringing up to 15 years of security maintenance per LTS and enterprise lifecycle management to microcontroller-grade devices.

GStreamer 1.28.9 Multimedia Framework Adds Support for mpph264enc Encoder · 2026-11-06 16:40 UTC

GStreamer 1.28.9 open-source multimedia framework is now available for download with support for the mpph264enc encoder, 24-bit support to the level element, and more.

Patch release v5.22.2 · 2026-11-06 15:43 UTC

Some in between patch for security and distributed fixes.

Large Performance Fixes · 2026-11-06 15:20 UTC

This release brings large performance fixes across Unsloth: faster typing and search in long chats, faster image/video loads, two-GPU image/video gen.

Improved Customization + Glass + Browser Use · 2026-11-06 14:37 UTC

This release introduces Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Dynamic V3.1, polishes the Glass themes (now in Beta), adds a Composer position slider and lets models interact with files in the built-in browser.

ToyBlocks: A controlled world for robot learning and evaluation · 2026-11-06 14:00 UTC

Kitty 0.50 Picks Up Where You Left Off After a System Restart · 2026-11-06 12:17 UTC

kitty is a GPLv3-licensed, GPU-based terminal emulator for Linux and macOS that uses OpenGL for rendering and is written in C, Python, and Go.

Partnering with Hacktron to find vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s systems · 2026-11-06 08:00 UTC

OpenAI is partnering with Hacktron to find vulnerabilities, test connections with third-party services, and strengthen defenses with frontier AI.

Planet News Roundup · 2026-11-06 08:00 UTC

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

ToyBlocks: A controlled world for robot learning and evaluation · 2026-11-06 08:00 UTC

ToyBlocks is an open simulation framework for studying robot learning through automated task generation, training demonstrations, and evaluation in a controlled tabletop world.