Linux’s ARM64 NEON Intrinsics CRC64 Code Adapted To Work On 32-bit ARM
Merged for Linux 7.1 was ARMM64 NEON-accelerated CRC64-NVMe support for around 6x the performance out of that checksumming algorithm. The generic code had been a bottleneck in NVMe and other storage subsystem code of the Linux kernel with CRC64-NVMe being used to help verify against data corruption. Now for Linux 7.2, the NEON-accelerated code will also work for those still relying on 32-bit ARM… ⌘ Read more

Norway Imposes Near Ban On AI In Elementary School
Norway will largely prohibit generative AI use for elementary kids ages 6 to 13 beginning with the new school year, while allowing limited, teacher-supervised use for older students. The government says the restrictions are intended to prevent children from skipping foundational reading, writing, and mathematics skills amid declining test scores. Reuters reports: Facing a br … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de

What’s your motivation for running this, btw? 🤔

Basically, two things a) feeling generous for folks that either can’t afford or find it hard to have a little place to call home (webpage, feed, whatever) and b) a real opportunity to test some of the components that make it possible sshbox, which I know works well as it fronts my Gitea instance’s Git+SSH service and box, a container runtime I wrote a while ago, recently improved, hardened and polished.

AMD Introduces An AI-Powered Bash Coding Agent
Just days after AMD engineers released a new Lemonade AI server with MCP server integration to make it much more useful, they have now released a new release of their GAIA “Generative AI Is Awesome” open-source software. With AMD GAIA 0.21.2, they have introduced a bash coding agent is their latest big ticket item in the AI space… ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.2 Gets Rid Of The Last Optimized MD5 Implementation
The Linux kernel has dropped the last of its architecture-specific optimized MD5 hashing algorithm implementations… ⌘ Read more

Midjourney Pivots From AI Image Generation To Body Scanning Medical Spa
Midjourney is expanding beyond AI image generation with plans for a medical-imaging business built around a water-based, full-body ultrasound scanner that uses hundreds of thousands of sensors and AI to reconstruct MRI-like images. “As you descend into the water, hundreds of thousands of tiny elements take turns, sending out wave … ⌘ Read more

How NVIDIA Vera CPU Performance Compares To The Ampere Altra Max
Last month on Phoronix was an exclusive first look at the NVIDIA Vera CPU performance compared to prior-generation NVIDIA Grace as well as the current AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon competition. Following that was looking at how the ARM Linux server performance has evolved over the past eight years of AArch64 Linux servers. A Phoronix Premium supporter recently requested wanting to see how Vera compares to Ampere Altra. While Ampere Altra has been in the … ⌘ Read more

AI/LLM Patch Craziness Having An Impact On ARM64 Linux Kernel Development
The ongoing rise in AI/LLM-generated patches hitting the mailing lists and affecting development workflows continues to impact Linux kernel development. For the ARM64 architecture updates in Linux 7.2 is an interesting anecdote over over feeling like this activity has “slowed us down a little on the feature side” and having to deal with this AI/LLM patch activity resulted in some features now being postponed from making it for this current L … ⌘ Read more

Linux Finally Ends AppleTalk Protocol Support
While the AppleTalk networking protocols were innovative when they first appeared for their plug-and-play capabilities, Apple itself ended their AppleTalk support back in 2009. Now 17 years later, the Linux kernel is ending AppleTalk support due to a recent surge of AI-generated patches… ⌘ Read more

SpaceX To Acquire AI Coding Startup Cursor For $60 Billion
SpaceX has agreed to acquire Cursor for $60 billion in stock, adding the popular AI coding assistant to Elon Musk’s newly public aerospace-and-AI conglomerate. CNBC reports: Cursor built a popular AI coding tool that helps software developers generate, edit and review code, and the company has experienced explosive growth since its founding in 2022. In Nove … ⌘ Read more

Oh god, finally: The thumbnail generator for my blog now renders a typical “play” icon for videos.

Saves me the need to write “this is a video” every time. 😬

Revised AVX-512 xor_gen() Implementation For Linux RAID Yielding More Performance Gains
A few days back I wrote about Google’s Eric Biggers spearheading an AVX-512 implementation of xor_gen() as the Linux kernel function used for generating and validating parity blocks such as for RAID5/RAID6. That initial implementation was yielding up to 41% better performance while a new implementation has now been posted for scoring some additional victories… ⌘ Read more

Shutterstock ‘Evolves’ Into ‘Human-Led, AI-Powered Creative Platform’
Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes:
Shutterstock has unveiled what it calls a “human-led, AI-powered” creative platform that combines its massive library of [human] contributor-created content with AI image and video generation, AI editing, conversational search, prompt enhancement, and automated model selection tools. The company says the goa … ⌘ Read more

Vim Classic 8.3 Launched as an AI-Free Vim Fork
This month saw the release of Vim Classic 8.3, the first stable version of a new long-term support fork of Vim maintained without generative AI tools. Linuxiac reports:

The release is based on Vim 8.2.0148 and includes selected bug fixes and patches backported from later upstream Vim releases. Vim Classic was first announced by [SourceHut’s CEO/founder] Drew DeVault in March 20 … ⌘ Read more

OpenAI Investigated By Coalition of America’s State Attorneys General
“A coalition of state attorneys general has opened an investigation into OpenAI,” reports the Wall Street Journal, citing “people familiar with the matter.”

OpenAI was served Friday with a subpoena seeking documents related to a broad range of its activities and impact on users, including advertising, user engagement and retention, hand … ⌘ Read more

Italien: Ex-General Vannacci will Meloni rechts überholen ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thanks!

On the AI changelog part, though, I’d rather recommend to just not have a changelog at all.

I’m afraid that ship has sailed. You can rest assured that someone who uses AI/LLMs for their code (which is almost everybody at this point) will most certainly also use it for changelogs.

I actually considered not mentioning AI output at all, because this just opens a huge can of worms … 😞

While going through these terrible GitHub release pages, I also found these “New Project Contributors” sections

Yeah, they play on a nerd’s pride.

Now, it’s just the same auto shitshow with MR titles in a rolling date-versioned release scheme. It’s just our team who has to deal with that, though. I think I’m the only one who is not a fan of it.

I’ve found that this whole situation is much worse at work than it is in the Free Software world. At work, it’s literally work and hardly anybody actually cares. We still don’t have all people convinced that writing good commit messages or using good branch names is worth the time. It’s … oh god, no, I’m going to stop here, this is bad for my mental health. 😅

Suffice it to say, all release notes at work are now AI-generated. Nobody gives a fuck.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hahaha, great timing! :-D I love your article and agree with almost all your points.

On the AI changelog part, though, I’d rather recommend to just not have a changelog at all.

Another important thing for me is the deprecation notice section. What do I need to look out for in the future? Should I start to migrate to another API soon? Even right now? Or does it have time?

While going through these terrible GitHub release pages, I also found these “New Project Contributors” sections (yeah, for that, they found the time to make a section) annoying. Don’t get me wrong, sure, credit where credit is due. But come on. Soooooo much space for an inefficiently formatted (and also unsorted) list. At least it was easy enough to skip over it.

And then, there are also these changelogs or rather notice documents in general that are infested with multicolored emojis all over the place. My brain’s spam filter kicks in and shoves everything to /dev/null immediately. It’s especially a thing at work.

In my previous work project, we also used the Keep A Changelog Format. That was great. You wouldn’t believe how often I resorted back to that document. At least twice a week, often several times a day. I was very glad that we put in this effort. Of course, writing the changelog took its time, but it was worth every minute and more. Reading a many months old item, it was immediately clear. I was our best customer in that regard.

Now, it’s just the same auto shitshow with MR titles in a rolling date-versioned release scheme. It’s just our team who has to deal with that, though. I think I’m the only one who is not a fan of it.

България бе домакин на събитие за овластяване на следващото поколение космически лидери

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GCC 17 Merges Function Multi-Versioning For APX & AVX10.2
Earlier this month I wrote about Intel working on function multi-versioning support for APX and AVX10.2 with the GCC compiler. This allows developers to write optimized code paths specifically targeting Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) or Advanced Vector Extensions 10.2 capabilities of future processors while being able to otherwise fall-back to generic or other optimized code paths for other ISA target features. This work is now merged for GCC 17.. … ⌘ Read more

Konzeptfahrzeug: BMW zeigt Elektro-Sportler der Zukunft
Das M Concept Neue Klasse gibt bei den 24 Stunden von Le Mans einen Ausblick auf die nächste Generation elektrischer M-Modelle von BMW. ( BMW, Auto)

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A German Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI Overviews
The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an AI system must assume legal liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates. ⌘ Read more

Sextape de Saint-Étienne: pour éviter un retour en prison à Gaël Perdriau, ses avocats accablent son bras droit
Le parquet général a requis cinq ans de prison, dont trois ferme, contre l’ancien maire au procès en appel de l’affaire du chantage à la sextape. En réplique, sa défense a tenté de tout mettre sur le dos de son ex-directeur de cabinet Pierre Gauttieri. ⌘ Read more

Bungalow in family for generations sells to developer for $1,845,000
The three-bedroom home had been in the same family for generations. The vendors were thrilled with the result, while the buyer is looking to build townhouses. ⌘ Read more

Jeff Bezos’ AI Startup Aims To Build an ‘Artificial General Engineer’
Jeff Bezos says his new AI startup, Prometheus, is working toward an “artificial general engineer” capable of helping design complex physical products such as robots, drugs, manufacturing systems, and rocket engines. The Verge reports: The NYT first reported on Prometheus last November, but now Bezos is sharing more information about the startu … ⌘ Read more

Justice Department Approves Paramount’s $111 Billion Acquisition of Warner Bros.
The Justice Department has approved Paramount Skydance’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery without requiring divestitures or other concessions. The deal still faces scrutiny from state attorneys general. Politico reports: The decision, expected to be announced Friday, paves the way for Paramount to combine … ⌘ Read more

On the Money: The Warehouse, Fieldays, Kieran McAnulty, Simon Bridges, the Funeral business, and more
On the Money (OTM) is our column of general frippery we observed within the worlds of business and government this week.

A few weeks ago, OTM reported on the Northern Club’s AGM, where the club elected a woman,Jacqui Bensemann, the managing director of Argus Fire, as its 78th president. ⌘ Read more

Test your general knowledge with the Good Weekend quiz
Trivia buffs: can you get a perfect score in the interactive superquiz? ⌘ Read more

Hundreds of AUR packages compromised
Hundreds of orphaned packages hosted by the Arch User Repository (AUR) have
been compromised by an attacker who has added a malicious npm\
package ( atomic-lockfile) that can exfiltrate sensitive
data. The project is currently working\
on cleaning up the mess. There is a [list of affected packages](htt … ⌘ Read more

Anzeige: Welche Konsole ist die erfolgreichste dieser Generation?
Die aktuelle Konsolengeneration neigt sich schon wieder ihrem Ende entgegen. Zum Summer Games Fest zeigen uns die Trenddaten, wer sie dominiert hat. ( Spiele, Sony)

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The US Is Requiring Foreign Influencers to Get Work Visas for the 2026 World Cup
FIFA announced agreements with platforms such as TikTok and YouTube that include the participation of dozens of international influencers to generate content in the three host countries. ⌘ Read more

A man kept asking his flatmate on dates. Talika’s idea might fix the problem
Years of soaring property prices have meant the age of renters extend well beyond young adults and into new generations. But for women, it can come with additional hurdles. ⌘ Read more

Generative KI: Fast die Hälfte der Briten würde generative KI abschaffen
Eine Yougov-Umfrage zeigt eine hohe Skepsis gegenüber generativer KI in Großbritannien. Besonders junge Erwachsene lehnen die Technik ab. ( Studien, KI)

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Device Clock Generation
Article URL: https://zipcpu.com/blog/2025/12/17/devclk.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48499890

Points: 5

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Apple’s Camera Chief Thinks AI Can Give You Superpowers
The generative features in iOS 27’s new Photos app will add fake pixels to some of your shots, but Apple’s Jon McCormack says the company isn’t using AI “for the sake of AI.” ⌘ Read more

Universal Homes reports $4m loss
Auckland residential builder Universal Homes has reported a $4 million net loss for the year to December 2025.

The Chinese-owned company generated annual revenue of $14.1m in house and land contract builds, but its cost of sales was $15.4m. ⌘ Read more

More AI-generated code doesn’t make your team faster. It might slow you
Article URL: https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/2064449711155589396

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489835

Points: 19

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National security risk as parliamentary network fails seven out of eight basic cyber checks
A damning report from the auditor-general reveals deep vulnerabilities across critical federal government safeguards, amid warnings the system may no longer be fit for purpose against sophisticated foreign espionage. ⌘ Read more

Solar Beats Coal In the US For the First Month Ever
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: Solar generated more U.S. electricity than coal for the first month on record in May 2026, according to new analysis from global energy think tank Ember. Solar supplied 12.8% of U.S. electricity during the month, while coal dropped to 12.2%. That’s a dramatic shift in the U.S. power mix. Just five years ago, coal gene … ⌘ Read more

Renewables surge but power bills still climb
Renewable generation supplied almost 95% of New Zealand’s electricity in the March quarter, but household electricity costs and fuel prices still rose as the wider energy system remained exposed to gas decline and global fuel-market disruption.

The latest Energy Quarterly from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) showed renewables generated 94.5% of all electricity in the three months to March, up from 83.2% in the … ⌘ Read more

UN chief wants escalation risks ‘full war’ in region
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the ceasefire in the region was “more like a lesser fire” as the US and Iran exchange strikes. ⌘ Read more

Pantouflage, recrutements familiaux et argent public à foison: les liens explosifs entre Bpifrance et un fonds franco-chinois
Cathay Capital a été le fonds privé qui a le plus bénéficié des soutiens publics de Bpifrance en 2025. Heureux hasard, il avait auparavant embauché le fils du directeur général de Bpifrance, Nicolas Dufourcq, après avoir recruté l’un de ses meilleurs amis, l’ancien directeur du Trésor, Bruno … ⌘ Read more

Comment les Gardiens de la révolution ont mis le foot iranien en coupe réglée
La sélection iranienne prendra bien part à la Coupe du monde de football masculine de 2026. Mais au-delà des difficultés faites par l’administration Trump, elle ne suscite guère de ferveur populaire dans son pays. En cause: une mainmise des appareils de sécurité sur le sport en général et le foot en particulier. ⌘ Read more

Scooby-Doo: Origins Live-Action Netflix TV Show Adds 15 to Cast
Netflix has revealed 15 cast members for Scooby-Doo: Origins. The upcoming show marks the franchise’s first live-action adaptation for television. While previously live-action theatrical films in 2002 and 2004 were featured in the franchise, Scooby-Doo Origins will debut as a live-action TV show. It will also feature a real Great Dane instead of computer-generated imagery. […]

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[$] AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere
Agentic AI systems can be used to do a variety of things
autonomously on behalf of a human user: open or manage bugs, generate
code, submit pull-requests, and (apparently) even complain about\
rejection. In May, a Fedora developer discovered that an allegedly
rogue agent had been pestering the project in a number of ways:
reassigning bugs, fabricating unhelpful replies to bugs, and even
persuading maintainers to merge questionable code into the [Anaco … ⌘ Read more

Buildroot 2026.05 released
Version\
2026.05 of the Buildroot tool
has been released. Buildroot simplifies and automates the process of
building embedded Linux systems using cross-compilation. Notable
changes in this release include support for Arm Neoverse cores,
addition of XFS rootfs generation, as well as many package updates and
bug fixes. See the CHANGES
file f … ⌘ Read more

Donald Trump’s NBA Finals ‘Nap’ Sparks Jimmy Kimmel’s Hysterical Reaction
Jimmy Kimmel, a vocal critic of Donald Trump, reacted to footage that appeared to show the President dozing off while attending the NBA Finals, where the New York Knicks faced the San Antonio Spurs. Trump’s appearance at the game had already generated discussion online due to heightened security measures. However, Kimmel focused primarily on the […]

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Justiz: Richter sanktioniert Anwälte wegen KI-Halluzinationen
In den USA haben Anwälte beider Parteien generative KI für Schriftsätze genutzt und erfundene Belege eingereicht. Das Gericht zieht Konsequenzen. ( KI, Software)

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Streaminggeräte: Kein TVOS 27 für ältere Apple-TV-Modelle
Ältere Apple-TV-Modelle erhalten kein Update auf die neue Hauptversion von TVOS. Dafür wird mindestens ein Apple TV der zweiten Generation benötigt. ( Apple TV, Apple)

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General Hospital Shocker: [Spoiler] Gets Shot & Fans React
General Hospital’s latest episode delivered a shocking twist that may lead to another character’s death. However, many fans aren’t convinced. They argue that the character will survive because of one particular reason. Here are all the details. Lucas gets shot on General Hospital, but here’s why he may not die At the end of General […]

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