What I realized in the past week or so is that if you can reverse engineer it, any software is open source software. Not in the license sense, of course. But AI agents are getting good at reading binaries, tracing what an
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AI’s role in kernel work is looking more apparent now. Linus Torvalds’ use of Claude Code has tripled read speeds for concurrent file access, while Sasha Levin proposed an agents directory to house AI skills for kernel work. And that’s just the
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This week, AI went to the “office”. Linus Torvalds says he actually likes using AI, and his new kernel branch credits Claude Code for the code, the tests and even a draft of the commit message. Office suites are being rebuilt so
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Long-standing open source projects won’t receive new DigitalOcean infrastructure credits after the company quietly ended its support program in a disruptive move that has affected many open source projects. Though they did have enough money to fund Omarchy. 🤷 I cannot confirm,
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Canonical is moving Ubuntu’s kernel update cycle from four weeks to two, with the expected result being a kernel release landing every week due to cycle overlap. They did this because AI-assisted vulnerability hunting is causing CVEs to land faster than the
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Welcome to Local AI Weekly #4. “Local AI” keeps meaning different things these days. Sometimes the model runs on your computer. Sometimes only the app does, while the model and your chat still run elsewhere. There are lots of such “local AI”
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First thing first. Yesterday, I mistakenly sent the Local AI Weekly newsletter to everyone. That was not supposed to happen. I’ll be more careful in the future. Let’s go with our regular dose of Linux and open source. Snapdragon X2 processor support
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📋 I mistakenly sent the Local AI Weekly to the subscribers of FOSS Weekly. My bad. A long, tiring day led to this mishap. Won’t happen again (hopefully). Welcome to issue #3. I said weekly last time and here we are, one
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It’s FOSS reader Mišo Oroz shares how he migrated a small transport and logistics company in, Bergamo, Italy to Linux and open source to reduce cost and ordinary technical problems. This is the kind of positive stories we need to hear more.
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Welcome back to Local AI Weekly. I promised a weekly, and then took a month to send the second one. So let’s call the first one the pilot episode. From here, the show will run weekly 🤘 This issue leans heavily toward
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