Tech news, summarized and translated.
Linux 7.2 lands with cache-aware scheduling, MGLRU improvements, sched_ext sub-schedulers, and multi-size THP. Igalia contributes DRM scheduler fair policy (opt-in), Raspberry Pi GPU runtime PM, and a 14-year-old futex bug fix.
A staff engineer uses Claude and open-weight models to build a custom watch face for the $27 PineTime open-source smart watch, proving that AI-assisted firmware development is accessible and fun.
Google Research's PhotoScan deep learning model estimates body composition from smartphone photos, predicting insulin resistance with near-DXA accuracy, offering a scalable alternative to clinical scans.
A developer's spec-driven harness hit 94% on Terminal Bench 2.1, but the real lesson is how GPT-5.6 Sol's stubbornness is changing the agent game.
Cloudflare's reassessment of remote Spectre attacks on Workers reveals a DyPrIs limitation, demonstrating a reliable 12 bit/s leak in production. They've since integrated the V8 Sandbox and in-process isolation.
Jeremy Morrell argues LLMs turn every user into a potential developer, making extensible web software the next big opportunity—with Cloudflare's Dynamic Workers as a key enabler.
Google's new Gemini 3.7 Flash model is now available on Vercel's AI Gateway, with a 50% discount until the end of 2026. The model promises better agentic reliability and design-to-code generation.
Vercel built a 'software factory' to manage the AI SDK's exploding issue and PR backlog, with automation now authoring a quarter to a third of merged PRs and closing 70-80% of issues.
This week's Spring roundup highlights a surge in Spring AI tooling: agentic workflows, graph-based agents, PII guardrails, and a JPA-to-REST API generator.
A natural experiment from postwar Britain reveals that sugar restriction in the first 1,000 days is linked to lower cancer incidence and slower biological aging—effects that persist into the 70s.
Cloudflare's adoption tracking for RFC 9234's OTC attribute uncovered two Tier-1 networks that strip the attribute, hindering route leak prevention. The post explains BGP Roles, OTC mechanics, and the path to wider deployment.
Avouch is a lightweight, Git-aware static analysis CLI for Python that reviews only the files your next commit will touch, using the standard library AST module and configurable limits in avouch.toml.