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Alexander Aring from Red Hat, who oversees the IEEE 802.15.4, DLM, and flock/fcntl subsystems in the Linux kernel, introduced a specialized file system DLMPFS to the kernel developers mailing list. The proposed FS provides a layer for distributed file locking, implemented based on DLM (Distributed Lock Manager) and ramfs. The implementation of DLMPFS is available in the form of a set of patches for the Linux kernel […]
Don't fear a potential AI bubble; we're not going to go bust, said Siemens Energy CEO Christian Bruch to the company's investors. In recent months, Siemens Energy has become a star on the German stock market, with its shares growing faster than others amid a 30-34% increase in orders for gas turbines. The main customers of these turbines are data center owners who are competing […]
An incident occurred in the community of developers of the popular Python library for data visualization, Matplotlib, which has around 130 million monthly downloads. Developer and project curator Scott Shambaugh rejected a code change request from an AI agent named MJ Rathbun. Following this, the bot publicly began attacking the developer, attempting to tarnish his reputation. The repository's policy prohibits accepting code from […]
The first version of FRANK OS has been released — an operating system for computers based on the RP2350 microcontroller, built on FreeRTOS. The operating system supports a desktop environment with a windowed user interface and provides partial compatibility with the POSIX interface. The source code is written in C and is available under the GPL-3.0+ license. Supported hardware includes PS/2 keyboards and mice, memory cards […]
The developers of the IPFire project, which develops a distribution for creating routers and firewalls, have introduced a series of IPFire DBL (Domain Block List) blocking lists to filter requests to unwanted domain names. The project is presented as a community-supported solution for managing content blocked in their own networks or local systems. Unlike most existing commercial and free DBLs that provide monolithic […]
Google has released a significant update to Gemini 3 Deep Think — a platform based on reasoning artificial intelligence, intended to address current challenges in the fields of science and engineering. The development of the new version of Google Gemini 3 Deep Think was conducted in collaboration with scientists — the service is aimed at solving complex research tasks that may not have clear constraints or a single […]
A stable release of the interface for simplifying network parameter configuration has been published — NetworkManager 1.56.0. Plugins for VPN support (Libreswan, OpenConnect, Openswan, SSTP, and others) are being developed within their own development cycles. Major innovations in NetworkManager 1.56: The nmcli utility has added the ability to view and manage peers for the WireGuard VPN. nmcli connection modify wg0 wireguard.peers "8W…G1o= preshared-key=16…LQA= allowed-ips=0.0.0.0/0 persistent-keepalive=10" nmcli connection […]
Scott Shambaugh, the maintainer of the open visualization library matplotlib, reported personal attacks orchestrated by the AI bot MJ Rathbun after refusing to accept an AI-prepared change. Scott interpreted the bot's posting of articles on AI discrimination as an unfounded personalized smear aimed at damaging the maintainer's reputation and coercing a change in decision. This bot's reaction is cited as an example […]
One of humanity's most ambitious scientific projects, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), has received an addition in the form of the largest industrial robot of its kind, nicknamed 'Godzilla'. This installation will help refine the processes and tools that will be used for assembling the thermonuclear reactor by other robots. This is a crucial step towards the project's realization, without which its completion will be […]
An update for Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS has been released, which includes changes aimed at improving hardware support, updating the Linux kernel and graphic stack, and fixing bugs in the installer and bootloader. The update also includes current updates for hundreds of packages that address vulnerabilities and stability issues. Similar updates for Kubuntu 24.04.4 LTS and Ubuntu Budgie have also been released.
Linus Torvalds refused to accept a set of changes intended for the 7.0 kernel from the maintainer of the MMC (MultiMedia Card) subsystem, describing the submitted patch, which doesn't even compile, as "complete garbage." He speculated that the changes had not been tested in the linux-next branch and had not undergone build testing. The compilation failed due to a redefinition of a variable. This level of code quality was frustrating.
Andreas Rumpf (Araq), the creator of the Nim programming language, announced a new memory management algorithm called YRC (pronounced "Ürk"), which addresses one of the key issues of existing mechanisms in Nim: the inability to correctly handle cyclic references crossing thread boundaries. Before YRC, the memory management algorithms proposed in Nim had the following limitations: ARC did not support either multithreading or cycle handling.