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The end of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference — 07/05/2025 08:37
Par corbet
On the 50th anniversary of the USENIX organization, its flagship Annual Technical Conference (ATC) is Version 1.0.0 of Mission Center, a system-monitoring application, has been released. Notable changes...
[$] Filtering fanotify events with BPF — 06/05/2025 21:14
Par daroc
Linux systems can have large filesystems; trying to keep up with the stream of fanotify filesystem-moni...
[$] Improving FUSE writeback performance — 06/05/2025 19:55
Par jake
In a combined filesystem and memory-management session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF), Joanne Koong led a discussion on improving the writeback p...
Security updates for Tuesday — 06/05/2025 11:18
Par corbet
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (chromium and kappanhang), Red Hat (osbuild-composer and thunderbird), SUSE (chromedriver), and Ubuntu (c-ares, corosync, mysql-...
A new AUTOSEL release — 06/05/2025 09:11
Par corbet
AUTOSEL is a tool that is used to find kernel patches that should be considered for backporting into the stable releases. Sasha Levin has anno...
[$] Injecting speculation barriers into BPF programs — 05/05/2025 20:04
Par corbet
The disclosure of the Spectre class of hardware vulnerabilities created a lot of pain for kernel developers (and many other...
Two stable kernels released—with build fixes only — 05/05/2025 14:39
Par jake
The 6.12.27 and 6.1.137 stable kernels have been released to fix build problems in their predecessors. ...
Security updates for Monday — 05/05/2025 14:31
Par jake
Security updates have been issued by Debian (ansible, containerd, and vips), Fedora (chromium, java-17-openjdk, nodejs-bash-language-server, nodejs-pnpm, ntpd-rs, redis, rust-hickory-pro...
Kernel prepatch 6.15-rc5 — 05/05/2025 06:46
Par corbet
Linus has released 6.15-rc5 for testing. "So it all feels like things are just continuing to go well this release. Let's hope I didn't jinx it by saying...

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European Links (07.05.25) — 07/05/2025 05:20
Par Martin Sustrik
Published on May 7, 2025 4:20 AM GMT

Military logistics
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Chess - "Elo" of random play? — 07/05/2025 03:18
Par Shankar Sivarajan
Published on May 7, 2025 2:18 AM GMT

I'm interested in a measure of chess-playing ability that doesn't depend on human players, and while perfect play would be the ideal reference, as ...
$500 + $500 Bounty Problem: Does An (Approximately) Deterministic Maximal Redund Always Exist? — 07/05/2025 00:05
Par johnswentworth
Published on May 6, 2025 11:05 PM GMT

A lot of our work involves "redunds".[1] A random variable Γ is a(n exact)...
The Theory Behind Loss Curves — 06/05/2025 23:22
Par James Camacho
Published on May 6, 2025 10:22 PM GMT

Or, why GAN training looks so funky.
Solomonoff's Lightsaber
The simplest explanation is exponentially more important.
Suppose I giv...
Negative Results on Group SAEs — 06/05/2025 22:49
Par Josh Engels
Published on May 6, 2025 9:49 PM GMT

Introduction
Soon after we released Not All Language Model Features Are One-Dimensionally Linear, I s...
ACX Atlanta May 2025 Meetup — 06/05/2025 22:00
Par Steve French
Published on May 6, 2025 9:00 PM GMT

We return to Bold Monk brewing for a vigorous discussion of rationalism and whatever else we deem fit for discussion – hopefully including actual discuss...
Paper Highlights, April '25 — 06/05/2025 15:22
Par gasteigerjo
Published on May 6, 2025 2:22 PM GMT

tl;dr
Paper of the month:
Control evaluations for multi-step agents show scheming behaviors are harder to detect but resampling pr...
Zuckerberg’s Dystopian AI Vision — 06/05/2025 14:50
Par Zvi
Published on May 6, 2025 1:50 PM GMT

You think it’s bad now? Oh, you have no idea. In his talks with Ben Thompson and Dwarkesh Patel, Zuckerberg lays out his vision for our AI future. I thank ...
Will protein design tools solve the snake antivenom shortage? — 06/05/2025 14:11
Par Abhishaike Mahajan
Published on May 6, 2025 1:11 PM GMT

— 06/05/2025 15:37
Par Steve M
Published on May 6, 2025 12:54 PM GMT

Under US law, the concept of being a "person" is separate from that of being a "human". Certain non-human entities like corporations have been granted l...