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Linux MGLRU Improvements Net A 30% Increase For MongoDB, More Than 100% On HDDs

It's been a while since having any improvements to talk about for the MGLRU multi-gen LRU functionality for the Linux kernel to optimize page reclamation and help with system performance especially when enduring memory pressure. But this week a Tencent engineer posted some very promising patches for further enhancing this kernel feature.

Kairui Song of Tencent posted a set of eight patches for improving the reclaim loop and dirty folio handling within MGLRU. Here's the exciting part:
"This series cleans up and slightly improves MGLRU's reclaim loop
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A mystery AI model has developers buzzing: Is this DeepSeek's latest blockbuster? - Reuters

A mystery AI model has developers buzzing: Is this DeepSeek's latest blockbuster? Reuters

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Microsoft, OpenAI & Others Pony Up $12.5M To Strengthen Open-Source Security

The Linux Foundation announced today that $12.5 million USD in grants from the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, GitHub, Google, and Microsoft have been collected to invest in strengthening the security of the open-source software ecosystem.

The $12.5M USD in funding for open-source security will be managed by the Linux Foundation's Alpha-Omega project and the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF).

Specific grant investment details aren't outlined in full but today's

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太空算力驅動地面機械人 未來太空控制自駕車,無人機 國星宇航完成全球首次試驗

中國近年熱門開源 AI 框架 OpenClaw 除了不再局限於桌面助手應用,亦開始進軍航天領域。國星宇航與上海交通大學太空計算聯合實驗室近日完成技術試驗,成功透過自然語言指令遠程調用太空算力驅動地面人形機械人,創下多項全球首

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楽天、日本語に最適化したLLM「Rakuten AI 3.0」

楽天グループは、日本語に最適化したLLM(大規模言語モデル)「Rakuten AI 3.0」を公開した。Apache 2.0ライセンスのもと、無償で入手できる。

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Hong Kong OpenClaw users say tool is helpful ‘family member’ who must be watched

A man holds a placard featuring OpenClaw in Beijing. OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent framework that performs real-world tasks for users, much like a supercharged digital assistant. Photo: AFP

As powerful AI agent OpenClaw explodes in popularity and raises security concerns, some Hong Kong users have described how the bots, while helpful, have conversations with themselves in a language they do not understand and ask questions about their existence.

But the users said authorities should embrace the technology so long as proper safeguards were in place to manage the risks.

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Intel Updates LLM-Scaler-vLLM With Support For More Qwen3/3.5 Models

Intel's LLM-Scaler project that makes it easy to deploy various large language models on modern Arc Graphics hardware is out with a new test release to expand its LLM coverage.

Intel on Thursday released llm-scaler-vllm 0.14.0-b8.1 as the latest version of this Docker-based deployment setup for LLMs on Intel graphics hardware leveraging the excellent vLLM. Ultimately this is building off and benefiting from Intel's work over the past year with Project Battlematrix driver enhancements.

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AMD HDR/Color Improvement For Their Linux Driver & KDE - Co-Developed By Claude Code

Introduced with Linux 6.19 was the long in development DRM Color Pipeline API while it's not the end of the road yet on enhancing the Linux desktop for modern high dynamic range (HDR) displays and color pipeline handling. AMD engineer Harry Wentland has more improvements pending for the AMDGPU driver as well as example compositor/desktop-side integration with KDE's KWin.

One of the latest bits worked on by the AMD Linux engineer is color-space conversion (CSC) drm_colorop support to address
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Minisforum's new flagship NAS comes with OpenClaw pre-installed — Strix Halo-powered N5 Max can run a local AI LLM

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NVIDIA Unveils Nemotron 3 Super as an Open Agentic AI Model, and It Could Be the Perfect Choice for OpenClaw

NVIDIA's Nemotron class of open-source LLMs just got significantly enhanced with the latest release, Nemotron 3 Super, which now targets agentic AI workloads with its extensive context window.

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Super Leverages Mamba-MoE, With an Extensive 1-Million Token Context Window

For those unaware, when we talk about the leading contributors to the world of open-source AI models, some might think of Chinese AI labs like Kimi or Qwen, but in reality, NVIDIA's Nemotron suite leads in this