Linus Torvalds posts his first AI-assisted patch to the Linux kernel, synthetic test clocks 23x performance leap — the bossman makes use of AI tooling himself after issuing clear pro-AI directives (www.tomshardware.com)

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[-] MangoCats@feddit.it 1 points 21 hours ago

Maybe Linus saw the race condition but just fixed it badly, again. https://dirtycow.ninja/ "This is an ancient bug that was actually attempted to be fixed once (badly) by me 11 years ago in commit 4ceb5db9757a... but that was then undone due to problems on s390 by [another] commit."

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