Linus Torvalds announced Linux 35 years ago today with 10,000 lines of code; it's now 40 million lines and runs most of the internet. The infrastructure it powers keeps mutating: Apple just launched desktop machines built specifically for local AI development, OpenAI's upcoming Jalapeño chip is shaping up as a dedicated inference beast, and SpaceX says it plans to put an NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack into orbit next year as part of its Starmind project.
Not all the hardware news is celebratory. Forensic investigators confirmed that a Russian drone guided by an NVIDIA Jetson Orin killed three civilians in Ukraine, the first documented case of a fully autonomous targeting system causing civilian deaths. Separately, CISA gave agencies a three-day window to patch a perfect-10 Oracle flaw, and researchers are warning about a new Sleepwalker backdoor targeting Windows machines.
On the lighter end: Claude's memory now carries across both chats and Cowork sessions, a GPT-5.6 model designed a custom CPU that runs Doom inside the Turing Complete sandbox, and one developer fed a 107-page spec to Claude Code and got a cross-platform Task Manager clone for Mac and Linux out the other end. Xiaomi also shipped a new CPU that matches Apple's cores single-threaded and beats them by a wide margin multithreaded, for anyone still counting silicon wins.
