I guess I haven't been paying enough attention, but Intel's APX is a really big update to their ISA:
- 32 GP registers
- setting flags is optional in many cases
- instructions take 3 operands instead of 2

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/advanced-performance-extensions-apx.html

@axboe @dagmcr I'm trying to run OSX for the first time and it's really surprising how horrible it is...

@maggiejk Hopefully it's not in Virginia... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/04/virginia-crosswalk-vandalism-charge-charlottesville

This is hot.

#BikeLane

@ljs @josefbacik I don't use lei, I use l2md which was written by Daniel Borkmann and I find it a lot simpler for what I need to do and it is git-based which is even nicer.

I used lei some time ago for a while but it was just too complex for what I wanted.

But I still have a personal inbox I need to use which doesn' t have anything to do with mailing lists per se.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dborkman/l2md.git/

What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that.

What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.

"Congratulations on having your first Pull Request (PR) merged into the LLVM Project!"

It's over for me

I can't believe we replaced blogs and RSS with people emailing their posts to you. just a really obviously stupid step backwards

Signal have rolled out an update to all users that stops Microsoft Recall from capturing Signal conversations.

I’ve tested this and it works. Brilliant work by the @signalapp team. 💪

They call on Microsoft to build better, as there was no standardised way as an app developer to do this. Because Signal is open source, now app developers have a template to protect their users from Windows.

https://signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-recall/

I got it, thanks ;)

Is anyone else at Facebook? I can't figure out how to let my VM talk to kernel.org, just copying the GitHub lines didn't work and I can't figure out how to find anything on these internal tools...

https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-prepares-new-future-software-defined-vehicles-upcoming-general-availability-red-hat-vehicle-operating-system ... "Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System has achieved functional safety certification as a Safety Element out-of-Context (SEooC) against the ISO 26262 Edition 2, 2018- Level ASIL-B standard." Built on top of the GNU Toolchain as a system compiler, with glibc and libstdc++ as the core C and C++ libraries. @gnutools

'"[…] Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. […] That means that the code that powers WSL is now available on GitHub at Microsoft/WSL and open sourced to the community! You can download WSL and build it from source, add new fixes and features and participate in WSL’s active development."'

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-is-now-open-source/

Air pollution in Paris before and after they added bike lanes and put restrictions on cars.

I will never understand people needing to drive cars in large cities like Paris.

Earlier today I released libpwm 1.0-rc1. If you’re working on a PWM Linux driver or you want to control a PWM from userspace, that’s what you should look into.

As part of a time-limited trial, yesterday we removed the www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com robots.txt "block" on *one* GenAI crawler.

Here's a graph of total daily requests from that 1 GenAI crawler by content-type. You'll note, they've retrieved ~460k web pages in ~16 hours, so a mean of ~28,750 web pages per hour. They'll likely pull ~690k pages today, ~32GB egress.

Whilst this is a drop in the ocean versus our other traffic, I can easily see how this could sink a smaller website.

#GenAI #WebDev

Linux Plumbers Refereed track and Microconference proposals are now open for submission! https://lpc.events/blog/current/index.php/2025/05/14/submission-time-for-linux-plumbers-2025/