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Linux 7.4 will bring another round of performance optimizations to the Btrfs file system, building on the larger gains that landed in Linux 7.3, which Linus Torvalds released on October 18, 2026. Btrfs maintainer David Sterba of SUSE sent the Btrfs pull request for 7.4 on October 15, and Phoronix summarized the speed-ups on October

Four old Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) drivers are being orphaned for Linux 7.4, and the maintainer behind the change pointed to a wave of AI-generated fixes for hardware almost nobody runs on current mainline kernels. EDAC maintainer Borislav Petkov of AMD sent the EDAC pull request for the Linux 7.4 merge window on October

AMD released GAIA 0.25 on Sunday, Oct. 18, according to the project’s GitHub release page. The open-source project for building and running local AI agents on Ryzen AI hardware started out as “Generative AI Is Awesome” and now goes by the tag line “AMD’s open-source agent factory,” Phoronix noted in its Oct. 19 report. The

Security fixes are being bypassed more often in 2026, according to AI penetration-testing startup Terra Security, whose findings The Register reported Monday, Oct. 19. Terra reviewed every published CVE record and GitHub-reviewed advisory looking for broken fixes and found a pattern that had been rare for six years: “A fix would ship, a bypass would

Google released TorchTPU, its native PyTorch stack for Google TPUs, as open source on GitHub on October 20, 2026, and shipped version 1.0 of llm-d, an open-source distributed inference stack that runs on Kubernetes. Both were announced at PyTorch Conference 2026, according to a Google Cloud blog post by Mark Lohmeyer, vice president and general

A team of three Google DeepMind researchers and University of Maryland plasma physicist Matt Landreman used Google’s Gemini 4 Argon to extend a set of exact solutions for the magnetic fields inside stellarator fusion reactors, solutions that had only recently overturned a conjecture Harold Grad posed in 1967. The work, posted to arXiv on Oct.

People 60 and over told the Federal Trade Commission they lost about $3 billion to fraud in 2025, five times the roughly $600 million they reported in 2020, according to the agency’s annual report to Congress, released Monday, Oct. 19. Investment scams were again the costliest type by far, with losses up 42% to more

The refrigeration dashboards that attackers abused at French supermarkets on the night of Oct. 11 had been sitting open on the internet for at least six months, according to an analysis of internet scans published by IPinfo on Monday. In its Oct. 6-7 sweep, five days before the attack, IPinfo found 2,528 addresses showing a

Cloudflare and VoidZero are taking on tsrs, an experimental port of the TypeScript compiler to Rust, and will develop it as part of the Oxc JavaScript compiler toolchain, Cloudflare said in a blog post on October 20, 2026. The companies are working with Max Schwenk of Owner.com, who started the port, and said the work

Google and McKinsey have agreed to buy 320,000 metric tons of carbon removal credits over 10 years from Working Trees, a company that plants trees on cattle pasture in Brazil. The Symbiosis Coalition announced the long-term purchase agreements on Monday, Oct. 19. Working Trees is converting degraded cattle pasture into mixed-species systems across Brazil’s southeastern