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The $200 Firefox mechanical keyboard sold out

Love Firefox enough to drop $200 on a branded keyboard? Tough, itโ€™s sold it. Itโ€™s a full-sized, 108-key mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX keys/switches, and has a unique keycap colour scheme and branding: a Firefox logo on the super/meta key and new Firefox mascot Kit on Esc. It works wired, via Bluetooth or 2.4g wireless. โ€œClean, clicky and finished in Firefox colorsโ€, reads the Mozilla Store description, โ€œthis is a keyboard that looks good, feels better and sneaks in a little personality where you least expect itโ€ (unaware the personality is exactly where one would expect it: on the keys). [โ€ฆ]

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AI Made A Lot Of "Hideous" Code But Found Major Bottlenecks For Faster Linux Compilation

An ARM Linux engineer leveraged AI/LLMs to help uncover some improvements to "significant speed up" the Linux kernel build times. In the process the LLM used generated "a lot of code, much of it hideous" but in the end was used to find some very significant time savings for faster kernel builds via more task parallelization in different areas of the kernel build process...

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systemd 262-rc2 Adds An AI Canary For Detecting Unreviewed AI/LLM Code Contributions

One week after releasing systemd 262-rc1, systemd 262-rc2 is now available with further fixes and refinements for this init system and service manager. Systemd is also the latest open-source project introducing an AI canary for aiming to detect AI/LLM-based code contributors that weren't reviewed by an actual person in advance of the pull request...