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Kernel prepatch 7.2-rc7

The 7.2-rc7 kernel prepatch is out for testing. It is still bigger than Linus would like, but he said nonetheless: " I don't currently see any value in delaying the 7.2 release, so I would expect that to happen next weekend unless something really bad pops up. "

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GitHub Models is now retired

GitHub Models is now retired I missed this news until today, when the GitHub Actions run for my simonw/research repository failed with this error message: GitHub Models is temporarily unavailable as…

  • GitHub Models, model playground tool, retired
  • Announced via GitHub Actions failure message
  • Speculated cost of free tokens led to shutdown

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