… What has shifted is the balance of risk: - projects accepting AI-assisted content have not run into serious legal trouble so far, which suggests the probability of the risk materializing is not high; - other organizations, such as Red Hat 1 , have assessed the risk as acceptable -- though a communi… …
… Maarten Lankhorst sent out the first pull of drm-misc-next changes to DRM-Next, consisting of a few DRM core and user-space API changes plus various driver-specific changes. …
… After a ticket was opened last week questioning if the Simple DirectMedia Layer has a policy around AI/LLM contributions, stakeholders took to coming up with such a policy. …
… The Weston AI policy would allow AI-assisted contributions but having human responsibility for understanding the code and license compliance. There would also need to be disclosure of AI use with patches. Other possible Weston 16.0 changes can be found via the open merge requests . …
… There are a lot of technical changes given the significant time lapse since the prior release. …
… This week a drm-intel-next pull has more Intel Direct Rendering Manager driver changes ready for queuing ahead of Linux 7.2. One of the notable changes with this week's pull is a Panel Replay bandwidth optimization. …
… New Mesa versions have typically been shipped down to Fedora stable users as updates but without a documented exception policy in place. …
… GCC 16 brings many changes including the Algol 68 programming language front-end, C++20 standard by default, AMD Zen 6 "znver6" initial support, support for using the Picolibc embedded C library, AVX10.2 and APX support is ready for Intel Nova Lake, various performance optimizations, Intel Wildcat … …
… Microsoft's Agent Governance Toolkit provides Agent OS as a policy engine that intercepts every agent's action before execution, Agent Mesh for securing agent-to-agent communication, Agent Runtime for dynamic execution rings, Agent SRE for various safeguards, Agent Compliance for automated governan… …
… GNU Gets Back Into Nutrition Software After 14 Year Hiatus New GCC Back-End Proposed For WebAssembly GCC 16.1 Released With AMD Zen 6 Support, Algol 68 & Many C++ Improvements Hygon C86-4G CPU Support Added To The GCC 17 Compiler GCC 16's Improved Error Messages, Experimental HTML Output GCC Establ…