GIMP 3.2.4 Released With A Fix For Its XCF Code That Has Existed Since 1999
Following last month’s GIMP 3.2 feature release that was followed by the GIMP 3.2.2 point release at the end of March, out now is GIMP 3.2.4 to ship more fixes to users of this open-source alternative to Adobe Photoshop and other imaging applications… ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.1 Sound Code Adds Bus Keepers: Aiming For Better Apple Silicon Support
The sound subsystem changes were merged this week for Linux 7.1 that include some new hardware support and other useful additions… ⌘ Read more

30 WordPress Plugins Turned Into Malware After Ownership Change
Wednesday BleepingComputer reported that more than 30 WordPress plugins “have been compromised with malicious code that allows unauthorized access to websites running them.”

A malicious actor planted the backdoor code last year but only recently started pushing it to users via updates, generating spam pages and causing redirects, as per the instruct … ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.1 Crypto Code Rework Enables More Optimizations By Default
Linux libcrypto cryptography subsystem changes for the v7.1 kernel are enabling more optimizations by default and in turn helping to achieve better crypto/hashing performance on this next kernel version… ⌘ Read more

OpenAI’s Big Codex Update Is a Direct Shot At Claude Code
OpenAI is updating Codex with more agent-like capabilities, positioning it as a more direct rival to Anthropic’s Claude Code. Some of the new features include the ability to operate macOS desktop apps, browse the web inside the app, generate images, use new workplace plug-ins, and remember useful context from past tasks. The Verge reports: Codex will now … ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.1 sched_ext Brings cgroup Sub-Scheduler Groundwork, Idle SMT Sibling Improvement
The extensible scheduler “sched_ext” code for allowing Linux scheduling behavior to be defined via BPF programs is seeing some useful improvements with the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel… ⌘ Read more

Mir 2.26 Begins Working On Rust-Based Input Platform
Canonical today released Mir 2.26 as the newest feature release for this compositor for building Wayland-based shells. Notable with Mir 2.26 is a Rust-based input platform is in development as part of their broader effort for bringing Rust code into Mir… ⌘ Read more

Anthropic Rolls Out Claude Opus 4.7, an AI Model That Is Less Risky Than Mythos
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, calling it its strongest generally available model and an improvement over Opus 4.6 in areas like software engineering, instruction-following, tool use, and agentic coding. But the company says it is “less broadly capable” than the restricted Claude Mythos Preview, “which Anthropic rolled … ⌘ Read more

Forgejo 15.0 released
Version\
15.0 of the Forgejo
code-collaboration platform has been released. Changes include
repository-specific access tokens, a number of improvements to Forgejo\
Actions, user-interface enhancements, and more. Forgejo 15.0 is
considered a long-term-support (LTS) release, and will be supported
through July 15, 2027. The previous LTS, version 11.0, will reach end
of life on July 16, 2026 … ⌘ Read more

Linux Begins Removing Support For Russia’s Baikal CPUs
Beyond Linux 7.1 beginning to phase out Intel 486 CPU support, this next Linux kernel version is also beginning to remove driver code for supporting Russia’s Baikal CPUs… ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.1 Picks Up The MMC Changes After Rejected By Linus In Linux 7.0
Back during the Linux 7.0 merge window the MMC changes were rejected by Linus Torvalds as “complete garbage” that wasn’t building properly and not vetted through linux-next. He went without pulling any MMC changes for the v7.0 cycle while now for Linux 7.1 the code has been better tested and successfully merged… ⌘ Read more

AMD Linux Graphics Driver Introducing “Power Module” To Better Match Windows Behavior
With the set of today’s AMDGPU kernel graphics driver Display Core (DC) patches is a rather curious addition with wiring up the Linux code to a “power module” that looks like it will better match Microsoft Windows behavior with the AMD Radeon driver around display-related power savings features… ⌘ Read more

SDL Adds Policy To Forbid LLM/AI Generated Code Contributions
The SDL library widely used by cross-platform games and part of the Steam Runtime has now established a policy to block code contributions made using AI / Large Language Models (LLMs)… ⌘ Read more

Cal.com Is Going Closed Source Because of AI
Cal is moving its flagship scheduling software from open source to a proprietary license, arguing that AI coding tools now make it much easier for attackers to scan public codebases for vulnerabilities. “Open source security always relied on people to find and fix any problems,” said Peer Richelsen, co-founder of Cal. “Now AI attackers are flaunting that transparency.” CEO Bailey Pumflee … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de LOL. I think I get the idea. I am concerned about AI too. Managers starting with “I don’t know anything about this, but here is what says”. Infuriating.

I came across this one today, here is a gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/opinion/art-artificial-intelligence.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bFA.XNiu.ZukFfdNl3Al1&smid=nytcore-ios-share

[$] Forking Vim to avoid LLM-generated code
Many people dislike the proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs) in recent
years, and so make an understandable attempt to avoid them.
That may not be possible in general, but there are two new forks of
Vim that seek to provide an editing
environment with no LLM-generated code. EVi focuses on being a modern Vim
without LLM-assisted contributions, while Vim Classic focuses on providing a lon … ⌘ Read more

Linus Torvalds Merged The Code Beginning To Remove Intel 486 CPU Support In Linux 7.1
As a follow-up to the news first-covered on Phoronix earlier this month about Linux 7.1 expected to begin removing i486 CPU support: it indeed happened. Linus Torvalds took the initial removal bits today without any fuss today for beginning the phase out of M486 / M486SX / ELAN kernel support… ⌘ Read more

AMD ROCm 7.2.2 Brings Optimization Guide For Ryzen AI / RDNA 3.5 Hardware
ROCm 7.2.2 is out today as a small point release to this open-source AMD GPU compute stack. There are a few code changes but most notable is arguably on the documentation side… ⌘ Read more

LLM-Assisted Patches For Linux 7.1 May Have Negative Impact On 32-bit Systems
Code now merged for the Linux 7.1 kernel may provide some negative performance implications for those still running modern Linux kernels on 32-bit hardware. A fundamental change can present cache line alignment and slab sizing implications for 32-bit Linux OS users but will provide for cleaner code with modern 64-bit computing… ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.1 Revamps T10 PI Data Integrity Handling For Better Read Performance
Merged yesterday for the Linux 7.1 kernel is overhauling the T10 PI code for generating and verifying data integrity information. In turn the new code is cleaner while also allowing for better read storage performance… ⌘ Read more

KDE Merges Per-Screen Virtual Desktops After 21 Years
A request made a KDE user all the way back in June 2005 on KDE 3.3.2 is finally resolved. After being sought after for 21 years, the latest KWin code now has support for per-screen virtual desktops… ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.1 Lands ARM64 NEON-Accelerated CRC64-NVMe For ~6x Improvement
Merged yesterday were all the CRC code updates for the Linux 7.1 kernel. Most notable with that pull is an ARM64-optimized CRC64-NVMe implementation that can deliver multiple times faster performance… ⌘ Read more

user.* xattrs On Sockets Merged For Linux 7.1 As Sought By GNOME & systemd Developers
On this first day of the Linux 7.1 merge window, among the early pull requests merged were beginning to land the various VFS pull requests submitted by Christian Brauner. Among that code merged is enabling support for user.* extended attributes on sockets… ⌘ Read more

Rust For Linux 7.1 Bringing Experimental Option That Can Help Performance
In advance of the Linux 7.1 merge window opening, Miguel Ojeda sent out all of the Rust feature updates on Friday. This includes bumping the minimum Rust version for building the Linux kernel as well as a new experimental option that can provide better performance for Rust code within the kernel, alongside other updates… ⌘ Read more

Will Some Programmers Become ‘AI Babysitters’?
Will some programmers become “AI babysitters”? asks long-time Slashdot readertheodp. They share some thoughts from a founding member of Code.org and former Director of Education at Google:

“AI may allow anyone to generate code, but only a computer scientist can maintain a system,” explained Google.org Global Head Maggie Johnson in a LinkedIn post. So “As AI-generated code beco … ⌘ Read more

GNU Linux-libre 7.0 Deals With Deblobbing More Drivers & Cleansing DT Files
Building off last night’s release of the Linux 7.0 kernel is now the GNU Linux-libre 7.0-gnu kernel release for that downstream kernel that removes support for loading non-free-software kernel modules, blocks the loading of loadable microcode/firmware even when it means greatly reduced hardware support, and other sanitization of code in the name of software freedom… ⌘ Read more

Latin America’s Central Banks Establish Digital Payments Used By Hundreds of Millions
175 million people in Brazil now use its instant-payment system “Pix”, developed by the country’s central bank for real-time payments using QR codes or keys, and American Banker notes that the central banks of Argentina and Costa Rica also have developed their own widely used digital systems for instant pa … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I couldn’t agree more! I also have the feeling that it causes more people to just accept “it’s a software problem, there’s nothing that can be done about it”. Which is very frightning to me.

Up until now, I was successful in refusing to actively use that crap. I had to do one mandatory AI training, but even our hippest AI enthusiasts found it absolutely terrible. Probably also nailed together by the same rubbish they want us to now use everyday as much as possible.

Code reviews are the part that I have to deal with most. And I believe that the code quality is degrading.

Let’s hope the bubble bursts sooner than later. It will definitely burst at some point. That’s for sure.

Intel’s New Shader Compiler “Jay” Merged For Mesa 26.1
It was just a few days ago that Jay was publicly posted as the new shader compiler in-development for Intel GPUs on Linux for both their ANV Vulkan and Iris Gallium3D drivers. While still very experimental, that initial Jay compiler code was merged today for Mesa 26.1-devel… ⌘ Read more

Linux 2026 “Spring Cleaning” To Address Some Code Remnants As Far Back As Linux v0.1
A big kernel patch series was posted today by longtime Linux developer Thomas Gleixner. The set of 38 patches amount to some big time “spring cleaning” with addressing some code remnants still around that originated back in the very early Linux v0.1 kernel while some other code being cleaned up dates back to the Linux 1.3~2.1 kernel series from the 90’s… ⌘ Read more

被 AI 编程坑过两次后，我终于做出了一个上架的微信小程序
被 AI 编程坑了两次之后，我终于做出了一个上架的微信小程序：不靠“让 AI 一句话生成微信小程序”，而是换了一种方式：给数据 → 做设计 → 再开发 → 拆任务 → 多对话。 来自 @阿童木先森 的 vibe coding 作品，如果你也觉得 AI 编程“不太靠谱”，可以看看他的方法。 想直接体验 ⌘ Read more

Redox OS Establishes AI Policy To Forbid Contributions Made Using LLMs
The Rust-based Redox OS open-source operating system provided a status update on all of their interesting development activities during the month of March. In addition to a lot of code improvements, Redox OS also enhanced its documentation as well as added an AI policy to reject any contributions relying on large language models… ⌘ Read more

Hugging Face Contributes Safetensors To PyTorch Foundation To Secure AI Model Execution
Announced today from the PyTorch Conference EU in Paris is word that Hugging Face has contributed their Safetensors project to the PyTorch Foundation, which is an umbrella organization under the Linux Foundation for hosting AI initiatives. Safetensors aims to help mitigate arbitrary code execution risks and more… ⌘ Read more

Google Proposes JSIR As A High-Level IR For JavaScript
Google engineers have been developing JSIR as a high-level intermediate representation (JSIR) for JavaScript that they are already using in production at the company code code analysis and transforming other code/bytecode to JavaScript as well as for deobfuscating JavaScript code… ⌘ Read more

Claude Code Leak Reveals a ‘Stealth’ Mode for GenAI Code Contributions - and a ‘Frustration Words’ Regex
That leak of Claude Code’s source code “revealed “all kinds of juicy details,” writes PC World.
The more than 500,000 lines of code included:
- An ‘undercover mode’ for Claude that allows it to make ‘stealth’ contributions to public code bases
- An ‘always-on’ age … ⌘ Read more

How I vibe-coded a web tool in three days with no programming experience
AI chatbots make it possible for people who can’t code to build apps, sites and tools. But it’s decidedly problematic. ⌘ Read more

Mesa 26.1 Makes It Easier To “Fake” A GPU Reset Using LLVMpipe
As a small but interesting addition coming for this quarter’s Mesa 26.1 release is making it easy to simulate a GPU reset with the LLVMpipe software driver. While seemingly mundane, this can be quite handy for compositor developers and other app/software developers wanting to more easily test how their code behaves when encountering a GPU reset… ⌘ Read more

CentOS Launches Accelerated Infrastructure Enablement For Driving NVIDIA AI Factories
The CentOS project has established the Accelerated Infrastructure Enablement “AIE” special interest group with a focus on providing a “fast lane” for “in-flight” patches. This CentOS AIE SIG is particularly focused on carrying the code needed for enabling NVIDIA AI factories… ⌘ Read more

Proposed Wine Code Uses Zink For OpenGL-On-Vulkan By Default
A CodeWeavers engineer opened a merge request yesterday for Wine to use Mesa’s Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver by default. This would build Zink as a Windows Portable Executable (PE) for allowing OpenGL to go straight to the Vulkan API with the host Vulkan drivers… ⌘ Read more

AMD GPU Driver Sees DC Idle Manager & Multi-SDMA Engine Optimization For Linux 7.1
With Linux 7.0-rc6 having released on Sunday, we are hitting the point of the cut-off of new feature material being allowed into the Direct Rendering Manager’s DRM-Next tree of queuing new graphics/display/accelerator feature code ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window. As presumably the last AMDGPU/AMDKFD feature pull ahead of Linux 7.1, today’s pull request from AMD contains some noteworthy final enhancements… ⌘ Read more

AI Can Clone Open-Source Software In Minutes
ZipNada writes: Two software researchers recently demonstrated how modern AI tools can reproduce entire open-source projects, creating proprietary versions that appear both functional and legally distinct. The partly-satirical demonstration shows how quickly artificial intelligence can blur long-standing boundaries between coding innovation, copyright law, and the open-source principles … ⌘ Read more

Cloudflare Announces EmDash As Open-Source ‘Spiritual Successor’ To WordPress
In classic Cloudflare fashion, the CDN provider used April Fool’s Day to unveil an actual, “not a joke” product. Today, the company announced EmDash – an open-source “spiritual successor” to WordPress that aims to solve plugin security. Phoronix reports: With the help of AI coding agents, Cloudflare engineers have been re … ⌘ Read more

Anthropic Issues Copyright Takedown Requests To Remove 8,000+ Copies of Claude Code Source Code
Anthropic is using copyright takedown notices to try to contain an accidental leak of the underlying instructions for its Claude Code AI agent. According to the Wall Street Journal, “Anthropic representatives had used a copyright takedown request to force the removal of more than 8, … ⌘ Read more

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org Thanks for clarification. I already thought something along those lines. Wow, so, you can really mix different encodings in a single file, crazy. My Perl experience is limited to maybe 10, 20 or at the very most 30 written lines of code over the decades.

The Linux Kernel’s Minimum Rust Version Supported Prepares For Rust 1.85 Baseline
The Rust-For-Linux crew is preparing to raise the minimum supported Rust version for building the Linux kernel and and similarly also bumping the minimum supported version of bindgen, the tool for generating Rust FFI bindings for C code in the kernel… ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oops, I guess the new text is a bit obscure. If you follow the link, the text is a bit more explicit, but you still need to know what a lexical scope is. Anyway, this is part of Perl moving very carefully toward being UTF-8 by default while also not breaking code written in the 90s. If you name a recent version like “use v5.42;” then Perl stops letting you use non-ASCII characters unless you also say “use utf8;”. The “lexically” part basically means that strictness continues until the next “}”, or the end of the program. That lets you fix up old code one block at a time, if you aren’t ready to apply the new strictness to a whole file at once.

Claude Code’s Source Code Leaks Via npm Source Maps
Grady Martin writes: A security researcher has leaked a complete repository of source code for Anthropic’s flagship command-line tool. The file listing was exposed via a Node Package Manager (npm) mapping, with every target publicly accessible on a Cloudflare R2 storage bucket. $ du -hs .35M .$ find -type f | sed ’s/^.*\.//’ | sort | uniq -c | sort -bVr 1332 ts … ⌘ Read more

A Lot Of Rust Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 7.1, NVIDIA Nova Driver Additions
Sent out yesterday were the DRM Rust feature changes for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window coming in April. The Rust graphics/display driver code for Linux 7.1 includes more programming language abstractions and other Rust infrastructure work to make graphics drivers written in Rust more capable… ⌘ Read more

The Next LVFS Actions Begin Tomorrow To Encourage More Hardware Vendors To Step Up
Last year the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) announced plans for major vendors to pay or contribute code to this project that makes it easy for deploying new system and device firmware on Linux systems. They are asking those with less than 99 employees to contribute $10k USD annually or those larger organizations to contribute $100k USD annually or to be employing engineer(s) to work full-time on LVFS/Fwupd. Beginning tomorrow … ⌘ Read more

PEP 829: Structured Startup Configuration via .site.toml Files
This PEP proposes a TOML-based configuration file format to replace the .pth file mechanism used by site.py during interpreter startup. The new format, using files named .site.toml, provides structured configuration for extending sys.path and executing package initialization code, replacing the current ad-hoc .pth format that conflates path configuration with arbitrary code execution. ⌘ Read more