may 26, 2026
5 links from the engineering internet.
github ships code coverage in pull requests in public preview
aggregate code coverage percentage is now visible directly on prs via uploaded cobertura reports; requires the code-quality:write permission and the upload-code-coverage action. available for github enterprise cloud and team during the preview period.
llama.cpp b9333 adds apple device id support to metal backend
pr #23566 adds apple device id selection to the metal gpu backend, letting users target specific accelerators on apple silicon; the release also ships over 30 platform binaries across linux, mac, and windows.
nvidia vera cpu benchmarks: olympus arm cores rival x86 for the first time
phoronix's first benchmarks of nvidia's vera data center cpu with in-house olympus cores show the first arm chip to compete broadly with intel and amd x86_64 processors; 88 cores, 450w tdp, and 1.2tb/s memory bandwidth.
intel posts 17 patches to add pmtctl telemetry tool to linux kernel
intel submitted 17 patches adding pmtctl to the linux kernel source tree; the tool provides perf-stat-style access to intel platform monitoring technology metrics, similar to turbostat, and is proposed to live alongside it.
kotlinconf'26 keynote: kotlin 2.4 preview, unified toolchain, koog 1.0 stable
jetbrains previewed kotlin 2.4.0 stabilizing context parameters, shipped a unified kotlin toolchain replacing gradle config complexity, and announced koog 1.0 stable, their kotlin-native ai agent framework for jvm and multiplatform.