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CERN Renounces RHEL in Favor of Debian

CERN will move its 2,200-machine accelerator-control fleet from Red Hat-derived distributions to Debian 13, completing the transition by Q4 2026.

CERN engineers announced at MiniDebConf Winterthur that accelerator-control systems, spanning more than 2,200 front-end computers and 17,000 embedded devices, will migrate from Red Hat-derived distributions to Debian 13 ('Trixie'). The trigger was RHEL 9's x86-64-v2 and RHEL 10's x86-64-v3 compiler baselines, which would obsolete legacy Core 2-era and custom industrial boards built for 10-15 year lifecycles. Debian was chosen for retaining x86-64-v1 baseline support, a large package repository, and PREEMPT_RT real-time patch integration in mainline kernels. CERN's compute farms and Tier-0 grid infrastructure will remain on AlmaLinux and RHEL.

Hacker News · securitySep 10, 18:33 UTC · 5d agoOther HN 20↑ · 10 comments

The AI ‘Ghosts’ Contaminating Academic Publishing

Samsung and University of Warsaw researchers find LLMs repeatedly generate the same fake author names, contaminating academic records with 1,655 ghost-authored DOIs.

A preprint from Samsung and the University of Warsaw, "The Ghost Couple: Correlated LLM Name Priors and Their Haunting of the Web and Academic Publishing," shows that LLMs such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini repeatedly generate the same fictional names like Elena Vasquez, Marcus Chen, and Aris Thorne as experts and co-authors. Researchers identified 1,655 ghost-authored records on CERN-operated Zenodo carrying real DataCite DOIs, fabricated journals, and backdated publication dates. Ghost names also form synthetic research groups on ResearchGate and are indexed without verification by Google Scholar and Semantic Scholar. The researchers suggest correlated name priors could serve as provenance signals for detecting AI-generated content.

404 MediaAug 27, 18:14 UTC · 19d agoAI research

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