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The Linux kernel 7.3 released on Sunday afternoon with 18,765 non-merge commits from 3,021 developers, including 807 first-time contributors. Significant changes include new failfs filesystem, fchroot system call, and working-set tracking for virtual machines, setting the stage for the 7.4 merge window.
DeepSeek released V4.1 Flash-1017 on October 17, updating its Flash model with improvements in reasoning, coding, agent tasks and visual understanding. The model weights are available on Hugging Face under the MIT license. The company said the update reduces task execution time and output length, allowing users to complete work faster and at lower cost.
UCLA researchers developed PhoneBot, an open source humanoid robot platform costing approximately $400 in hardware. The system uses four Android phones, including an older Honor 9 released in 2017, for vision and control. Training reduced joint-angle symmetry error from 0.254 radians to 0.003 radians across five runs. The project remains limited by low-powered servos and lacks arms for object manipulation.