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The Linux Foundation-hosted Xen Project launched a Safety Committee with AMD, EPAM, and Renesas as founding contributors, aiming to bring formal functional-safety certification to the open source hypervisor for automotive, avionics, and robotics use.
UK inference-chip startup Fractile is in talks to raise about $600M at a $6.5B pre-money valuation, driven by an initial $250M chip deal with Anthropic.
A new empirical study finds coding agents overwhelmingly read and write their own instruction files, rarely touch classical documentation, and almost never use docs to recover from failures.
Slack's new Slack Code feature moves AI coding agents out of private terminals into shared, self-archiving team channels, launching with Anthropic, Cognition, GitHub, and Vercel.
Flux's new CLI plugin mirrors images, Helm charts, and OCI artifacts into registries teams control, holding back newly signed artifacts to blunt fast-moving supply-chain attacks.
ClickHouse's pg_clickhouse extension now pushes whole correlated subqueries down to ClickHouse, taking TPC-H pushdown coverage from 12 to 16 of 22 queries.
Cloudflare opens a private beta of WriteGuard, a policy and audit layer that classifies and can block risky write actions AI agents take through MCP servers.
Rust 1.98.0 stabilizes non-deterministic algebraic float operations for faster loop vectorization and a format_into method that matches the itoa crate's performance.
RPM 6.1.0 adds PKCS11 hardware-token signing and macro modifiers, the first release under a new versioning scheme modeled on the Linux kernel.
Socket added Firefox extension scanning for enterprise customers days after its researchers uncovered 40 malicious extensions stealing crypto wallet secrets.
AMD's open-source local AI agent framework for Ryzen AI NPUs gains a terminal-native agent hub, cross-surface confirmation gates, and MCP security fixes.
Grafana 13.2 brings a generally available shared query library, Git Sync support for GitHub Enterprise and webhook-based GitLab/BitBucket sync, and a public-preview view panel sidebar for viewers.