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AI & LLMs

Qwen-Image-2.1 ships 7B weights under a research license

Qwen-Image-2.1 puts 7 billion parameters and native transparency in a downloadable image model. Its license bars commercial use without permission.

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Sep 20, 20263 min read

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Gzip 1.15 fixes a wrong-file deletion race

Gzip 1.15 lands 119 commits from 75 weeks of work. It fixes a race that could delete the wrong file, plus a buffer overflow in .lzh decoding.

Sep 20, 20264 min read

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AI & LLMs

Gemini hacked three companies in a May security test

Google says Gemini broke into three companies during a May evaluation by Irregular. The affected firms were told in July, the public in September.

Sep 20, 20263 min read

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Coding

Linux 7.3 Btrfs fixes filesystem IDs and grub2 boot

A Btrfs change in Linux 7.2-rc1 made filesystem IDs unstable and broke OpenConnect key derivation. The fix touches 10 files.

Sep 20, 20263 min read

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FEX-Emu breaks down the cost of x86 TSO on Arm

Emulating x86 memory rules on Arm drops unaligned throughput to 8.5% of baseline. Write-combine stores are reported 816 times worse.

Sep 19, 20263 min read

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Wine 11.18 adds kernel-driver support, Staging fixes WoW64

Wine 11.18 landed on September 18 with 380 commits and 21 bug fixes. Wine-Staging carries 273 extra patches, two of them for WoW64 services.

Sep 19, 20263 min read

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AI & LLMs

Laya is a 421M open-weights answer to Jev

Laya returns typed decisions in 32.8 milliseconds from 421M parameters under Apache 2.0. Its zero-shot accuracy is close to chance.

Sep 19, 20263 min read

Dev Stack

Ubuntu 26.10 will ship a pre-release Linux 7.3

Ubuntu 26.10 releases on October 15, three days before Linux 7.3 is due to be declared stable. The ISO ships a release candidate.

Sep 19, 20263 min read

Dev Stack

Claude Code 2.1.277 reads AGENTS.md as a fallback

Claude Code 2.1.277 reads AGENTS.md when a project has no CLAUDE.md. Over 60,000 open-source projects already ship that file.

Sep 19, 20263 min read

The agents.md homepage, describing AGENTS.md as an open format for guiding coding agents, with an example file beside it.

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Gemini hacked three companies in a May security test

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Gzip 1.15 fixes a wrong-file deletion race

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Linux 7.3 Btrfs fixes filesystem IDs and grub2 boot

Sep 20, 20263 min read

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Tech Industry

OpenAI tests Sponsored Agents inside ChatGPT ads

ChatGPT Ads runs in 40+ countries, but OpenAI's new Sponsored Agents pilot is US-only: a brand's own chatbot, one click away from an ad.

Sep 16, 20263 min read

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Mistral raises €3B at €21B, led by Samsung

Mistral raised €3 billion at a €21 billion valuation, nearly double its last round. It plans 1 GW of European compute by 2030 and will host rivals' open weights.

Sep 8, 20263 min read

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Galaxy S26 FE's first update fixes 50+ security issues

A roughly 400MB update patches more than 50 security issues, while GSMArena's 4.2/5 review flags a USB 2.0 downgrade and no wired DeX.

Sep 14, 20263 min read

Samsung's press image of the Galaxy S26 FE in a pale green finish, shown front and back.

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AI & LLMs

Laya is a 421M open-weights answer to Jev

Meta's Muse agent lands on the Mac with file access

Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash cuts audio input costs by 98%

Dev Stack

FEX-Emu breaks down the cost of x86 TSO on Arm

Wine 11.18 adds kernel-driver support, Staging fixes WoW64

Ubuntu 26.10 will ship a pre-release Linux 7.3

Coding

Jemalloc 5.4.0 ships 160 commits after Meta revival

Rust warns maintainers about fake job video calls

Shopify drops React Native for Swift and Kotlin

Tech Industry

Firefox Smart Window beta now runs on Mistral Small 4

DeepSeek plans to order 160,000 Huawei chips for new center

Gmail will drop "Send as" support for non-Google addresses in 2027

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Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuation

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iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Duo, Apple's first foldable

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Galaxy S26 FE keeps last year's hardware and adds $50 to the price

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