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Figure · 2026.03.09 · Helix 02 Living Room Tidy

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Linux Maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman Says AI Tools Now Useful, Finding Real Bugs
Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday March 28, 2026 @02:34PM from the better-bugs dept.

Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman tells The Register that AI-driven code review has "really jumped" for Linux. "There must have been some inflection point somewhere with the tools..."

"Something happened a month ago, and the world switched. Now we have real reports." It's not just Linux, he continued. "All open source projects have real reports that are made with AI, but they're good, and they're real." Security teams across major open source projects talk informally and frequently, he noted, and everyone is seeing the same shift. "All open source security teams are hitting this right now...."

For now, AI is showing up more as a reviewer and assistant than as a full author of Linux kernel code, but that line is starting to blur. Kroah-Hartman has already done his own experiments with AI-generated patches. "I did a really stupid prompt," he recounted. "I said, 'Give me this,' and it spit out 60: 'Here's 60 problems I found, and here's the fixes for them.' About one-third were wrong, but they still pointed out a relatively real problem, and two-thirds of the patches were right." Mind you, those working patches still needed human cleanup, better changelogs, and integration work, but they were far from useless. "The tools are good," he said. "We can't ignore this stuff. It's coming up, and it's getting better...." [H]e said that for "simple little error conditions, properly detecting error conditions," AI could already generate dozens of usable patches today.

The sudden increase in AI-generated reports and AI-assisted work has also spurred a parallel push to build AI into the kernel's own review infrastructure. A key piece of that is Sashiko, a tool originally developed at Google and now donated to the Linux Foundation.

Kroah-Hartman said some patches are being generated with AI now. "You have a little co-develop tag for that now. We're seeing some things for some new features, but we're seeing AI mostly being used in the review."

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Pancreatic Cancer mRNA Vaccine Shows Lasting Results In Early Trial
Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday April 19, 2026 @02:34PM from the give-it-your-best-shot dept.

NBC News reports on a 16-person clinical trial of "personalized messenger RNA vaccines" which use the immune system to fight cancer cells. "The goal is not to eliminate existing tumors, but instead to stamp out lingering, undetected cancer cells, and later any new cells that form before they can cause a recurrence."

Patients still have surgery to remove tumors. After that, the mRNA vaccines are personalized for each individual using genetic material taken from their unique tumor cells. In the clinical trial, after getting the vaccine, the patients also received chemotherapy, which is standard post-op treatment for operable pancreatic cancer... [The article notes that less than 13% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer live for more than five years, making it "one of the deadliest cancers."]

[E]xperts have long believed that people with pancreatic cancer could not generate an immune response against tumors. But after nine doses of the personalized vaccine, [clinical trial participant Donna] Gustafson is one of eight people in the 16-person Phase 1 trial who did just that, producing an army of immune cells called T cells that seek out and destroy tumor cells... [Dr. Vinod Balachandran, a vaccine center director who is leading the trial, said] it was unclear whether the immune response would last and lead to the patients living longer... New data collected during the trial's six-year follow-up period shows that it may. Those findings will be presented Monday at the American Association for Cancer Research's annual meeting in San Diego. Six years after treatment, Gustafson and six others who responded to the treatment are still alive...

More research is still needed. Genentech and BioNTech, the two drugmakers behind the vaccine, have already launched a larger Phase 2 clinical trial... Another team is working on an off-the-shelf vaccine that targets a protein called KRAS that is present in as many as 90% of pancreatic cancers. In a small, early trial, about 85% of the participants mounted an immune response to the protein.

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FDA Gives Green Light To the First Gene Therapy For Deafness
Posted by BeauHD on Saturday April 25, 2026 @03:00AM from the first-of-its-kind dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR:

The Food and Drug Administration approved the first gene therapy to restore hearing for people who were born deaf. The decision, while only immediately affecting people born with a very rare form of genetic deafness, is being hailed as a milestone in the quest to treat hearing loss. "It's the first time in history there's a new drug for hearing loss," says Zheng-Yi Chen, an associate scientist at Mass Eye and Ear in Boston who was not involved in the development of the therapy approved by the FDA Thursday. But his research team reported very promising results with a similar approach Wednesday. "I think it's an historical event, a landmark, a great development for the whole field," he says of the approval. [...] The FDA's decision was based on the results from the treatment of 20 patients born with a defective version of a gene known as OTOF, which is necessary to transmit sound from the ears to the brain.

Doctors infused billions of adeno-associated viruses into the patients' ears by making a small incision behind the ear to open a small hole in the skull. The viruses carried a healthy version of the OTOF gene that had been split in half to fit inside the virus. The gene provides instructions to make the otoferlin protein, which is necessary for hair cells in the inner ear to transmit sound to the brain. Most of the patients began to hear for the first time within weeks, with the quality of their hearing improving over the following months, according to [Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, which developed the gene therapy and plans to offer it for free in the U.S. It should be available within weeks.]. The amount of hearing patients gained varied, but 80% achieved at least some significant hearing restoration and 42% ended up with normal hearing, which included the ability to hear whispers, Regeneron says. The hearing ability has lasted at least two years so far.

The treatment can only help patients with the very rare form of deafness that Smith was born with, which only affects about 50 children each year in the U.S. But similar gene therapies are showing promise for other forms of genetic deafness. And researchers hope someday gene therapy may help with common types of hearing loss, like from aging and loud noise.

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https://cincodias.elpais.com/opinion/2026-04-23/las-claves-estee-lauder-y-puig-van-resolviendo-las-dificultades-de-su-fusion-transatlantica.html

https://elpais.com/economia/2026-04-22/el-gigante-chino-catl-presenta-baterias-con-autonomia-para-1500-kilometros-y-recargas-en-6-minutos.html

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https://cincodias.elpais.com/opinion/2026-04-23/las-claves-estee-lauder-y-puig-van-resolviendo-las-dificultades-de-su-fusion-transatlantica.html

https://elpais.com/economia/2026-04-22/el-gigante-chino-catl-presenta-baterias-con-autonomia-para-1500-kilometros-y-recargas-en-6-minutos.html

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Jajajjaja. Open AI y Anthropic se ponen a buscar pasta (de otros) para que financien a sus clientes para que estos les paguen lo que no les pueden pagar porque cuesta más que lo que se obtiene con ello.
Todo esto en un entorno catastrófico del Private Equity y el crédito privado.

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https://cincodias.elpais.com/opinion/2026-04-23/las-claves-estee-lauder-y-puig-van-resolviendo-las-dificultades-de-su-fusion-transatlantica.html

https://elpais.com/economia/2026-04-22/el-gigante-chino-catl-presenta-baterias-con-autonomia-para-1500-kilometros-y-recargas-en-6-minutos.html

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Jajajjaja. Open AI y Anthropic se ponen a buscar pasta (de otros) para que financien a sus clientes para que estos les paguen lo que no les pueden pagar porque cuesta más que lo que se obtiene con ello.
Todo esto en un entorno catastrófico del Private Equity y el crédito privado.

El contraste entre empresas top occidentales y orientales, en la misma página. A qué se dedican unas y otras y la sensación general que dan.

Con las occidentales me echo la mano a la cartera para agarrarla bien. La sensación de tongo financiero y venta de humo que dan es enorme. Bueno, no es una sensación.

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https://cincodias.elpais.com/opinion/2026-05-07/nvidia-y-la-eclosion-de-la-fotonica-en-los-centros-de-datos.html

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Boston Dynamics · 2026.05.05 · Atlas' Balancing Act | Boston Dynamics

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https://lectura.kioskoymas.com/el-pais/20260510/textview/page/89

Hotta o el calor infinito

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Parece que poco a poco empieza (ya era hora) un movimiento más amplio contra el modelo del "premium forzoso" que tanto les gusta a la los nuevos aspirantes a dictadores y señores neofeudales CEO y mandatarios occidentales.
Denomino "premium forzoso" a la práctica tan extendida hoy día (por ejemplo lo que hace la UE a las órdenes de las grandes automovilísticas) de meter un montón de cancamusa tecnológica totalmente innecesaria (y muchas veces contra el propio cliente) para que pases por caja y pagues auténticas burradas por reparaciones triviales.

Esto serían por ejemplo conexiones móviles en un coche para que el fabricante meta lo que le dé la gana en tu coche 24/7 o electrónica con piezas "caja negra" que en nombre de la seguridad hacen que cualquier mínimo problema opaco tengas que pasar por su taller y soltar mínimo 500€ por decir algo.

Supongo que muchos de vosotros estaréis familiarizados con John Deere, la marca de tractores yanki muy famosa en los últimos años por sangrar sin piedad a los agricultores usando este mismo sistema de extorsión y robo.
Si no, os invito a que os informéis porque es muy alarmante a los extremos a los que llega esta empresa y de cómo el gobierno en EE.UU. les permite actuar de forma abusiva. Esto es a donde vamos en la UE con muchas cosas (el caso más obvio los automóviles), ya que nuestros dirigentes europedos están muy preocupados por el bienestar de los pobres CEO y las pobrecitas empresitas que tanto sufren contra los malvados chinos, que cometen el pecado de fabricar coches baratos y que hacen lo que tienen que hacer (llevarte de A a B).

¿El cliente siempre tiene la razón? No. El cliente es un siervo de la gleba y un pringao al que hay que sacarle todo lo que podamos y si puede ser a la fuerza legal mejor. Al cliente que le jodan.
No es de extrañar que la industria del automóvil europea le tenga tanto miedo a los fabricantes chinos. Les jode el modelo de negocio John Deere, ya que es la única manera que encuentran de ser rentables sin cambiar lo que llevan haciendo toda la vida.

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/06/04/0043253/demand-is-booming-for-new-no-tech-repairable-tractor

Demand Is Booming For New No Tech, Repairable Tractor

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: The secondary market for decades old, low-tech John Deere tractors has been booming for years as farmers have sought reliable tractors that they can actually fix without having to deal with John Deere's repair monopoly. A Canadian company has seen that demand and came up with a radical thought: What if they made a new, repairable, "no-tech" tractor to solve what has become a gigantic pain point for farmers? Alberta's Ursa Ag says that it has been inundated with demand after announcing its tractor, which costs roughly half as much as a Deere and has the benefit of not being a repair nightmare.
 
 [...] Ursa Ag markets its tractors as "no frills" and "built to last." Ursa Ag's Doug Wilson told me that the company designed the tractor because of a need in the marketplace for a new machine that isn't loaded with tech and is easy to maintain. The company follows in the footsteps of consumer electronics companies like Fairphone, which makes a repairable smartphone and Framework, which makes modular, repairable laptops. The demand Ursa Ag has seen is part of the backlash to manufacturer repair monopolies and the injection of technology and internet-connected sensors and terms of use into even the most basic of gadgets. "I talk to farmers every day and I hear from farmers every day about how they went out and bought machinery from 1987 so that it wouldn't have a computer on it," Wilson said. "All of this came from a simple discussion with a customer who wanted to be able to turn [the tractor] on at the start of the day, to use it, and shut it off at the end of the day. It needed to work, so that's what we built."
 
 Ursa Ag's tractor has been hyped in agriculture circles after Wilson showed the tractor off at a Canadian farm show and it was featured by Farms.com. Wilson said more than a thousand farmers have contacted him after that show, from roughly 30 countries. "I got a handwritten letter from a farmer in France who doesn't own a computer and wanted us to mail him information about the tractors," he said. He said the company has thus far made a couple fewer than 100 tractors but is working on tripling its production capacity and has seen a lot of demand over the last few months. "Given the number of my customers that carry flip phones, I would say there is consumer pressure to back away from some of the technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks," Wilson said. "So that is definitely transferable to dishwashers and washing machines, refrigerators. Refrigerators that have screens on them that'll tell you what's inside. It's a little crazy."
 
 "That high-tech stuff, the million-dollar John Deere tractor has a place. It has technology that is well worth the money," Wilson said. "But that technology is needed for 5 percent of what a farm does. There are so many applications for tractors on farms that don't require technology. The technology that goes into even a calculator is not required for most farming applications."