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PostgreSQL 19 Delayed as AI-Generated Bug Reports Overwhelm Developers
PostgreSQL's annual feature release normally lands in September or October, but version 19 will not arrive before November. Developer Robert Haas blames the workload created by a wave of bug reports and patches from AI agents.
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How curl was accidentally Turing-complete for nine months
From version 8.12 through 8.16, curl's config files could simulate a two-counter Minsky machine. The loophole was closed by an include-depth cap in 8.17.0, which was added for an entirely different reason.
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Pico CSS is no longer maintained, and its author cites AI
The maintainer of the minimal CSS framework Pico CSS has announced that version 2.1.1 will be the last. AI, he argues, has made such frameworks far less necessary, and staying relevant would require a rewrite from scratch.
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A computer in the weights: a working RISC-V CPU compiled into Qwen 3.5
Developer Divyansh Agrawal has compiled a 32-bit RISC-V processor directly into the weights of Qwen 3.5 4B. The model's own Gated DeltaNet layers serve as RAM, and no external tools are involved.
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Akai opens up the MPC Sample Key firmware and bets on AI-coded mods
Akai hasn't formally announced the MPC Sample Key yet, but it is already showing off mods that enthusiasts are vibe-coding for it. The device will ship with open-source firmware, and developers are getting early access.
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CPython's JIT compiler to be removed after PEP 836 is withdrawn
The authors of CPython's experimental JIT compiler have withdrawn PEP 836 after failing to satisfy the Python steering council. The code is likely to be removed from the main branch soon.
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Hob: an open-source, on-device alternative to Claude Cowork and ChatGPT
Frigade has released Hob, a free MIT-licensed desktop app. It runs open-weight language models locally on Mac, Windows and Linux and works offline.
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OBS Studio 33.0 Lands With Major CEF Jump, Reworked Plugin Loading
The popular screen-recording and live-streaming app gets a big release: its embedded Chromium leaps across two years of changes, and plugin loading has been overhauled.
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Fedora 45 Hits a Second NO-GO: Release Pushed to November
At the latest Go/No-Go meeting the Fedora team delayed Fedora 45 by at least another week over open blocker bugs. The new tentative release date is 3 November.
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OpenAI releases an official CLI for its API
A Go-based command-line tool offers direct access to OpenAI's REST API — from generating responses and images to admin queries. The project ships under the Apache 2.0 license.
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DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS "Cinnamon Teal": the biggest release yet
The DuckDB team has shipped version 2.0.0 with long-term support — the Quack client-server protocol, asynchronous I/O, triggers, a VARIANT type and an agent mode for AI tools. It rests on nearly 20,000 commits.
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Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch backend for TPUs
The company has released torch_tpu, a project that lets PyTorch models and operations run directly on Google's Tensor Processing Units. The code ships under the Apache 2.0 license.
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DeepSeek open-sources its inference engine DeepInfer
The company has released DeepInfer, the framework behind its production services, under Apache 2.0. It targets NVIDIA GPUs and Huawei Ascend NPUs.
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The Netherlands is building its own Linux-based OS to break free from Microsoft
The Netherlands is reportedly developing its own Linux-based operating system in an effort to reduce its reliance on Microsoft products.
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Servo Brings CSS Grid to Life and Speeds Up With Threadboost
The belated August status report on the Rust-based Servo browser engine covers CSS Grid support and an experimental feature that lifts Speedometer scores by 50%.
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Linux 7.4: Radeon HDMI 2.1 by Default, AMD iGPU AI Boost, and First Apple M4 Steps
As the Linux 7.3 kernel heads toward its stable release, Phoronix previews the next cycle. Highlights include HDMI 2.1 enabled by default on modern Radeon cards, big LLM performance gains on AMD integrated graphics, and initial Apple M4 support.
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Pele: Mermaid Diagrams as Themeable SVG
Pele is a lightweight open-source library that turns Mermaid text into SVG and lets you recolor diagrams through CSS variables — with no re-rendering.
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Home Assistant checks your passwords against HIBP — and not everyone was pleased
A security researcher discovered that Home Assistant was checking his passwords against a breach database without his consent and filed an angry issue. The developer first brushed it off, then apologized and explained how the mechanism works.
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Game Reverse-Engineering Community Shuts Down as AI Makes Decompilation Too Easy
The site decomp.dev is closing its doors, saying AI has broken the very spirit of decompilation — work that once took engineers years can now be done trivially.
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OpenCode 2.0: an agent that drives its own interface
A major overhaul of the open-source AI coding assistant is out. A background service, a rewritten API, Code Mode and background tasks turn OpenCode into a system the agent can operate on its own.
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