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Arch Linux Running Well On LoongArch - Loongson 3B6000 Benchmarks Review  Phoronix

Learn more about how threat actors are misusing AI, and what Google is doing to stop it.

Amazon engineers have been pushing back against internal policies that steer them toward Kiro, the company's in-house AI coding assistant, and away from Anthropic's Claude Code for production work, according to a Business Insider report based on internal messages. About 1,500 employees endorsed the formal adoption of Claude Code in one internal forum thread, and some pointed out the awkwardness of being asked to sell the tool through AWS's Bedrock platform while not being permitted to use it themselves. Kiro runs on Anthropic's Claude models but uses Amazon's own tooling, and the company says roughly 70% of its software engineers used it at least once in January. Amazon says there is no explicit ban on Claude Code but applies stricter requirements for production use.

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Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS Now Available With Linux 6.17 HWE Kernel  Phoronix

FOSS Weekly #26.07: Kernel 6.19, AI for Real Sysadmin Works, Arch Apps on Ubuntu and More Linux Stuff  It's FOSS

Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS released with Linux 6.17 + Mesa 25.2  OMG! Ubuntu

Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS Released with Linux 6.17 + Mesa 25.2  OMG! Ubuntu

The large language models that millions of people rely on for advice -- ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini -- will change their answers nearly 60% of the time when a user simply pushes back by asking "are you sure?," according to a study by Fanous et al. that tested GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet, and Gemini 1.5 Pro across math and medical domains. The behavior, known in the research community as sycophancy, stems from how these models are trained: reinforcement learning from human feedback, or RLHF, rewards responses that human evaluators prefer, and humans consistently rate agreeable answers higher than accurate ones. Anthropic published foundational research on this dynamic in 2023. The problem reached a visible breaking point in April 2025 when OpenAI had to roll back a GPT-4o update after users reported the model had become so excessively flattering it was unusable. Research on multi-turn conversations has found that extended interactions amplify sycophantic behavior further -- the longer a user talks to a model, the more it mirrors their perspective.

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Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS Is Now Available for Download Powered by Linux Kernel 6.17  9to5Linux

How to use your Android phone to master Linux Bash scripts (instead of doomscrolling)  ZDNET

AI startup Anthropic says it will ensure consumer electricity costs remain steady as it expands its data center footprint. From a report: Anthropic said it would work with utility companies to "estimate and cover" consumer electricity price increases in places where it is not able to sufficiently generate new power and pay for 100% of the infrastructure upgrades required to connect its data centers to the electrical grid. In a statement to NBC News, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said: "building AI responsibly can't stop at the technology -- it has to extend to the infrastructure behind it. We've been clear that the U.S. needs to build AI infrastructure at scale to stay competitive, but the costs of powering our models should fall on Anthropic, not everyday Americans. We look forward to working with communities, local governments, and the Administration to get this right."

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"Completely garbage!" Linus blasts the Linux MMC code update: It can't even compile, and no testing was done at all.  36 Kr

I wanted Windows Notepad on Linux—this app is the closest replacement I’ve found  How-To Geek

Mesa 26.0 Rolls Out, Bringing Major Vulkan And Ray-Tracing Improvements For Radeon GPUs On Linux  Wccftech

Mesa 26.0 Rolls Out, Bringing Major Vulkan And Ray-Tracing Improvements For Radeon GPUs On Linux  Wccftech

Linux Mint team considers longer gaps between releases in attempt to accelerate development efforts — current six-month cycle means ‘we spend more time testing, fixing, and releasing than developing’  Tom's Hardware

Linux Mint team considers longer gaps between releases in attempt to accelerate development efforts — current six-month cycle means ‘we spend more time testing, fixing, and releasing than developing’  Tom's Hardware

Linux Mint team considers longer gaps between releases in attempt to accelerate development efforts — current six-month cycle means ‘we spend more time testing, fixing, and releasing than developing’  Tom's Hardware

Linux Mint team considers longer gaps between releases in attempt to accelerate development efforts — current six-month cycle means ‘we spend more time testing, fixing, and releasing than developing’  Tom's Hardware