Lorenzo Stoakes, an Arm engineer who works on the Linux kernel’s memory-management code, posted a patch series on November 10, 2026 that removes him as a reviewer from several memory-management (MM) sections of the kernel’s MAINTAINERS file. In a later reply on the mailing list, he estimated that AI-generated submissions now make up about half or more of what he sees. The four-patch series drops his reviewer entries for MM core, MM misc, reclaim and the Rust-related MM sections. A fourth patch adds a CREDITS entry for his earlier work as a Transparent Huge Page (THP) co-maintainer. He keeps his…
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Nexus Mods is recruiting a Senior Desktop Engineer (Linux Gaming) to build out Linux support in Vortex, its desktop mod manager, with SteamOS and the Steam Deck as the main targets. The position pays £65,000 to £75,000 a year. It is remote, but candidates must live in the UK, and the company says it cannot sponsor international visas. GamingOnLinux reported the opening on November 12 after the Nexus Mods team contacted the site about it. Nexus Mods’ listing for the role, as GamingOnLinux published it, describes Vortex as Windows-first with Linux support on the roadmap. The listing says Vortex already…
Kora Systems, the Palo Alto company formerly called Playtron and led by Cyanogen co-founder Kirt McMaster, unveiled Kora on Nov. 10, a Linux desktop OS whose Cortex inference engine splits AI workloads across the CPU, GPU and NPU and across other machines on the same network. Cortex runs local models by default and adds frontier cloud models when a task calls for them, according to Kora’s press kit, which projects that about 70% of the model calls it manages will run locally in 2027. The engine is proprietary and not open source. The OS underneath is built on Linux and…