📰 AI Helped Uncover A "50-80x Improvement" For Linux's IO_uring
Linux block maintainer and IO_uring lead developer Jens Axboe recently was debugging some slowdowns in the AHCI/SCSI code with IO_uring usage. When turning to Claude AI to help in sorting through the issue, patches were devised that can deliver up to a "literally yield a 50-80x improvement on the io_uring side for idle systems." The code is on its way to the Linux kernel...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AI-50-80x-IO-uring
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🪐 Hidden over 430 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus, the protoplanetary disk around the young star AS 209 is riddled with striking gaps and rings thought to be carved by newly forming planets. ALMA observations revealed the disk’s outermost gap may be created by a planet similar in mass to Neptune, astonishing astronomers because it would be forming over 200 astronomical units from its star—far beyond the realms where planets are usually born. ✨
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🪐 The black hole MAXI J1820+070, about 10,000 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus, is known for its rapid and dramatic changes in brightness. These "black hole outbursts" happen when the black hole pulls in matter from a companion star, causing huge X-ray flares as the material heats up and spirals inward—revealing just how active and unpredictable these cosmic giants can be. ✨
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🪐 A rogue planet called ISO-Oph 98, discovered in the Ophiuchus star-forming region about 475 light-years from Earth, is so light it’s only about 0.6% the mass of our Sun—closer to a giant planet than to a star. Unlike most planets, rogue planets like ISO-Oph 98 drift through space without orbiting any star, shining faintly with their own leftover heat rather than reflecting sunlight. ✨
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🪐 The magnetar 1RXS J170849.0–400910, located about 18,000 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus, is known for its titanic magnetic field, which can reach over 100 trillion times the strength of Earth's. This intense magnetism is so powerful that it can twist the star's crust, triggering sudden bursts of X-rays and gamma rays—brief flashes that outshine entire regions of space before fading into darkness. ✨
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