GIMP 3.0, AI Exploit, and Linux Updates 🖥️💡

Andrew Pierno

Andrew Pierno

— 1 min read
GIMP 3.0, AI Exploit, and Linux Updates 🖥️💡

Welcome to The Compiler, a daily curation of tech news

🗞️ IN THE NEWS

  • GIMP 3.0 has been released, marking a major milestone for open-source image editing. The update brings a modernized UI and improved performance.Read more
  • A security researcher won $50k by exploiting an AI agent, highlighting potential vulnerabilities in AI systems.Read more
  • The US FTC has launched a broad antitrust investigation into Microsoft, which could have significant implications for the tech industry.Read more
  • A benchmark study compares memory requirements for running 1M concurrent tasks across different programming languages and runtimes in 2024.Read more

🔍 UNDER THE HOOD

Microsoft Patches Exchange Server Fix

Corrects issues caused by previous updateView patch details

FFmpeg Git Lands Vulkan Video Enhancements

Potential performance improvements for video processingView commits

Linux 6.13 Staging Clears Out 107k Lines of Code

Removal of old and unmaintained drivers improves kernel maintainabilityView changes

🧵 REPO OF THE WEEK

No suitable repo found this week.

🤔 SHOWER THOUGHTS FOR DEVS

If we spent as much time fixing tech debt as we do arguing about tabs vs spaces, our codebases would be pristine.

Thanks for reading!

Andrew Pierno

Read more