Mesa’s RADV Vulkan Driver Adopts Its Own LLM Policy
The RADV driver, Mesa’s Vulkan driver for AMD Radeon GPUs, now has its own AI/LLM contribution policy on top of Mesa’s, Phoronix reports. Valve’s Samuel Pitoiset…
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November 2026
Kwi: KDE’s New Terminal Is Built on libghostty and Claims 3x to 35x Over Konsole
KDE developer Eike Hein announced Kwi, a new terminal emulator built on Ghostty’s libghostty-vt library plus KDE Frameworks, Phoronix reports. The pitch GPU acceleration through OpenGL…
Daniel in Babylon: Settle Who You Are Before the System Tells You
Kap Chatfield wrote a piece for Charisma on Daniel in Babylon, and it ties straight into what I think about every day: AI. Daniel drew his…
Plan: Checking My NAS and Self-Hosted Boxes Against This Week’s Ransomware Alerts
Between the Synology C3RB3r warning and 1,000+ GitLab servers still unpatched, this week has me thinking about my own self-hosted stuff. This is a plan I’m…
Five Bright Planets to Catch in November
November is a great month for planets, Space.com says. Here’s the quick version. Saturn: well up in the south in mid-to-late evening. Its rings are tilted…
Update: NASA’s Swift Telescope Is Days From Falling Back to Earth
An update to my post on NASA ending Swift’s mission. Space.com says the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory should reenter in the next few days. Where it…
Synology Warns of C3RB3r Ransomware Hitting Outdated NAS Boxes
Synology is warning customers to update DiskStation Manager now because of a wave of C3RB3r ransomware attacks, BleepingComputer reports. That’s rare: its last attack warning was…
Rumor: Apple’s HomeView Could Double as a HomeKit Secure Video Camera
Code sleuth pdfu found settings strings in HomeView Software 27.2 suggesting the hub could work as a HomeKit Secure Video camera, MacRumors reports. What the strings…
India’s AI Plan: Send the Model to the Data, Not the Data to the Model
India’s Ministry of Electronics and IT has a framework called DEPA for AI Training, The Register reports. As the government’s Principal Scientific Adviser put it, “the…
Emacs Turns 50 (and So Does Vi)
Emacs is 50, The Register notes, citing MIT Technology Review. By coincidence, so is its arch-rival vi. Where it came from The name means “Editing MACroS.”…