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LAION has published a large-scale video research dataset called LAION-BVD. Immediate open access is limited to a 1.3-billion-entry URL ledger, while the raw videos and 55M clips require an application. Performance evaluation covered just 0.56% of the total hours.
Amazon has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs. Here's how DuckDB's intellectual property remains with a foundation, how the technical direction may shift as core developers join AWS, and what it means for the project's neutrality going forward.
Marking Linux's 35th anniversary by comparing the official 0.01 and 7.2 tarballs, this piece examines how a licensing change and a distributed review system allowed the source code to grow roughly 4,000-fold.
Canonical is investing in a three-year PhD research project to convert hundreds of thousands of lines of C into safe Rust. Using AppArmor and other real-world tools as test cases, the work will examine whether generated code preserves behavior and remains maintainable.
Linux 7.3's networking update has landed in mainline, bringing parallelized FIB rule handling and BIG TCP support extended to VXLAN and Geneve tunnels. The piece also examines new error-handling changes and the team's policy on LLM-assisted patch review.
Linux 7.2 introduces cache-aware scheduling, MGLRU, and USB4STREAM. Meanwhile, the plan to make GPU fairness the default was reverted at the last minute due to regressions.
GIMP is designing a new ZIP+XML work format to replace XCF, in use since 1997, that can write only changed portions. It will serve as the foundation for auto-save and 3.6's multi-page and animation features, though details remain undecided and legacy XCF will step back to read-only support.
Deno Land has released "celld," an open-source foundation that runs Cloudflare Workers-compatible code on self-managed servers. By integrating SQLite into each execution environment and using S3-compatible storage as a coordination mechanism, it achieves state management in distributed environments along with high cost efficiency. (119 characters)
NVIDIA has open-sourced cuFile, its API for direct GPU storage access, and is driving standardization of the SCADA architecture—where GPUs control storage I/O without going through the CPU—together with more than 40 companies. As the bottleneck in AI inference shifts from compute to data delivery, structural change is beginning across the storage industry.
