AMD's GAIA Now Allows Building Custom AI Agents Via Chat, Becomes "True Desktop App"
…AMD GAIA 0.17.2 also brings an Agent Activity panel so users can inspect what's going on with AI agents and to explore per-tool latency and the like. Downloads…
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Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Experimental Support For Descriptor Heaps
…This merge request landed the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap support and initially holding up the code were parser issues around untyped descriptor pointers. Hopefully following additional test coverage and user testing this…
Tiny Corp Begins Accepting Pre-Orders For Their $10M Exabox
Open-source friendly company Tiny Corp that is behind the Tinygrad MIT-licensed neural network framework and developing a 'sovereign' AMD GPU driver stack with their Tinybox hardware offerings has their sights…
Meta Optimizing /proc/interrupts Reading As It's Too Costly At Scale: 29% Speedup
…output, the savings is very much worthwhile. "Monitoring tools periodically scan /proc/interrupts to export metrics as a timeseries for future analysis and investigation. In large fleets, /proc/interrupts is polled (often…
Linux May Drop Old Network Drivers Now That AI-Driven Bug Reports Are Causing A Burden
Old network maintenance drivers are becoming a maintenance burden in the era of fuzzing and predominantly AI-driven bug detection causing an uptick in possible bug/security reports to upstream Linux kernel…
The Very Exciting Cache Aware Scheduling Looks Like It Will Land For Linux 7.2
…Cache Aware Scheduling has been led by Intel software engineers for more than one year and has shown significant benefits on at least modern Intel and AMD CPUs , especially for sever class…
Linux 7.1-rc2 Released With Audio Fix For Steam Deck OLED, Other Fixes
…and while it's a bit early to say for sure, I do suspect we're seeing the same continued pattern of more patches than usual - probably due to AI tooling - that…
Debian Is Figuring Out How Age Verification Laws Will Impact It
…In parallel, a recently adopted law in Brazil appears to introduce similar requirements and is already in force, with initial interpretations suggesting it could apply to components such as package management tools…
Linux 7.1 Expected To Begin Removing i486 CPU Support
…Ingo Molnar took action and authored a patch that initially gets rid of the CONFIG_M486SX, CONFIG_M486, and CONFIG_MELAN Kconfig build options. It's that patch that looks destined for…
user.* xattrs On Sockets Merged For Linux 7.1 As Sought By GNOME & systemd Developers
…systemd and GNOME are expanding their use of Varlink as an IPC mechanism. For D-Bus there are tools like dbus-monitor that can observe IPC traffic across the system but this…