Arch Linux: Recent news updates
Active AUR malicious packages incident

We are currently experiencing a high volume of malicious package adoptions and updates in the Arch User Repository.

We are actively working to track down existing malicious commits and attempting to prevent additional malicious commits from being pushed. While this is happening, and while we work to create a more permanent solution, users may see issues with the following:

● Creating new accounts on the AUR
● Pushing package updates
● Adopting or creating new packages

We continue to encourage all users of AUR packages to review all PKGBUILD and install script changes when updating, especially during this time. If you notice suspicious commits to a package that you use, please reach out to Arch staff via the aur-general mailing list with more information.

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(author: Campbell Jones)

Chips and Cheese
An Interview with Intel's Kira Boyko: Xeon 6+'s Product Director
#ChipAndCheese

Telegraph | source
(author: George Cozma)

Telegraph

An Interview with Intel's Kira Boyko: Xeon 6+'s Product Dire…

Hello you fine Internet folks, today we have an interview with Kira Boyko, the Product Director of Intel Xeon 6+. Hope y’all enjoy! Transcript below has been edited for conciseness: George Cozma: Hello, you fine internet folks. We’re here at Computex 2026…

Toward Intelligent Prefetching: A Survey on Complex Memory Access Prediction Techniques

via cs.AR updates on arXiv.org (author: Sheel Sindhu Manohar)

arXiv.org

Toward Intelligent Prefetching: A Survey on Complex Memory Access...

Data prefetching is a critical technique for bridging the processor-memory performance gap by predicting future memory accesses and retrieving data into on-chip caches before demand. While...

Daniel Lemire's blog
Sovereign

Telegraph | source

Telegraph

Sovereign

The keyword in politics these days is ‘sovereign’. What few will admit is that it is effectively the adoption of the American strategy: Make America Great Again. In other words, reindustrialization of key sectors of the economy. The UK used to be a computing…

Harry Chen’s Blog
6000 端口占用导致 SLURM 卡死诊断一例

Telegraph | source
(author: Shengqi Chen (i@harrychen.xyz))

Telegraph

6000 端口占用导致 SLURM 卡死诊断一例

今天在组里的某个 GPU 集群上部署了一套 SLURM，方便多人使用。我本以为只是从已有集群复制配置、启动服务，十分钟之内就能搞定，没想到因为一个玄学的问题整整卡了一个多小时。 问题现象：各个节点上的 slurmctld、slurmd、slurmdbd 都能正常启动，然而只要试图提交任务，机器上的 slurmd 和派生的 slurmstepd 就会卡死（任务并没有开始运行），不再有任何响应（slurmctld 也无法联系它），只能靠 SIGKILL 杀死后重新启动。各个进程的日志中都看不出什么异常；能看…

Arch Linux: Recent news updates
Arch Linux 2026 Leader Election Results

Recently we held our leader elections and after a lively discussion period on the (internal) mailing lists and voting phase with two candidates Levente "anthraxx" Polyák was re-elected as Arch Linux Project Lead.

As per our election rules he is re-elected with the term lasting two years.

The role of of the project lead within Arch Linux is connected to a bunch of responsibilities regarding decision making (when no consensus can be reached), community leadership, Code of Conduct enforcement, handling financial matters with SPI and overall project management tasks.

Congratulations to Levente, thank you for stepping up to serve this community and all the best wishes for another successful term! 🥳

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(author: Christian Heusel)

Daniel Lemire's blog
Embodied cognition and agentic AI

Telegraph | source

Telegraph

Embodied cognition and agentic AI

Where is your intelligence located? In your brain? It is a simplistic answer. A better model is that your intelligence is embodied. Consider a cook working at an expensive restaurant. He has all his favorite knives and cooking instructions, placed exactly…

孩子们，opus 4.8 来了

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8

Anthropic

Introducing Claude Opus 4.8

Our latest model, Claude Opus 4.8, is an upgrade to our Opus class of models, with stronger performance across coding, agentic tasks, and professional work, and the consistency to handle long-running work.

Arch Linux: Recent news updates
Breaking changes for all users of `varnish`, which is renamed to `vinyl-cache`

The Varnish project has renamed itself to Vinyl Cache. We followed this rename with a new vinyl-cache package. This upgrade results in breaking changes and users are advised to study these changes and how it affects them before following the replacement. All references to "varnish" have been changed to "vinyl" in all binaries and directories.

At minimum, users will have to:

● rename /etc/varnish to /etc/vinyl-cache
● rename /var/lib/varnish to /var/lib/vinyl-cache
● fix up ownership of files inside /var/lib/varnish
● user varnish becomes vinyl
● group varnish becomes vinyl
● user varnishlog becomes vinyllog
● user vcache remains the same
● disable the old varnish.service and varnishncsa.service systemd units
● enable the new vinyl-cache.service and vinylncsa.service systemd units

Meanwhile, the varnish package has been dropped from [extra]. We're not currently planning to maintain a new varnish package as it's a different upstream project.

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(author: Sven-Hendrik Haase)

Chips and Cheese
Evaluating SPEC CPU2026
#ChipAndCheese

Telegraph | source
(author: Chester Lam)

Telegraph

Evaluating SPEC CPU2026

SPEC’s CPU benchmark suite has been a long established industry standard, and is almost impossible to miss when reading through various publications. Intel used SPEC CPU2000 to showcase Pentium 4’s improvements over Pentium III. Samsung used SPEC CPU2000…

Daniel Lemire's blog
Only 17% of all 64-bit Integers are products of two 32-bit integers

Telegraph | source

Telegraph

Only 17% of all 64-bit Integers are products of two 32-bit i…

In software programming, the product between two integers is often computed to a fixed number of bits with overflow. Consider 8-bit integers. If you multiply 127 by 127, you get back the number 1 as an 8-bit unsigned integer, with an overflow. The actual…

杰哥的{运维，编程，调板子}小笔记
SPEC CPU 2026 在其他指令集上的编译

Telegraph | source

Telegraph

SPEC CPU 2026 在其他指令集上的编译

SPEC CPU 2026 在其他指令集上的编译¶ SPEC CPU 2026 官方只附带了 aarch64/ppc64le/riscv64/x86_64 指令集的预编译 tools，如果要在其他指令集上使用，就需要首先编译 tools，过程如下： cd /mnt && tar xvf install_archives/tools-src.tar wget -O config.guess 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_…