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Fedora Will Allow AI-Assisted Contributions With Proper Disclosure & Transparency

Phoronix - Thu, 10/23/2025 - 01:25
The Fedora Council has finally come to a decision on allowing AI-assisted contributions to the project. The agreed upon guidelines are fairly straight-forward and will permit AI-assisted contributions if it's properly disclosed and transparent...

Ray AI Engine Pulled Into The PyTorch Foundation For Unified Open AI Compute Stack

Phoronix - Thu, 10/23/2025 - 01:08
Announced today at the PyTorch Conference was word that the Ray AI compute engine is becoming a project hosted by the PyTorch Foundation...

Linux 6.18 Hardened Against Specially-Crafted EROFS Images Leading To System Crashes

Phoronix - Thu, 10/23/2025 - 00:30
The EROFS read-only file-system continues enjoying nice uptick in use from embedded devices to containers. Merged today for Linux 6.18 is some new hardening to the EROFS driver where specially-crafted file-system images could lead to system crashes or infinite loops...

Sovereign Tech Agency Making 2026 Investments In systemd, PHP, Servo & More

Phoronix - Wed, 10/22/2025 - 23:37
Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency (nee Sovereign Tech Fund) is out with their latest newsletter where they outlined some new investments in various key open-source projects...

LLVM Lands Some Long Overdue Tuning Optimizations For AMD Zen 4

Phoronix - Wed, 10/22/2025 - 21:36
Merged today to the LLVM/Clang compiler codebase are some long overdue adjustments to the AMD Zen 4 "znver4" CPU model for more accurately assessing various latency timings and micro-ops. These values were initially copied over from the Zen 3 (znver3) target but never adjusted properly for Zen 4 until now when an independent contributor took to sorting it out...

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