Kimberley Mok

Montreal

Writer at The New Stack

Writer at Tree Hugger

Earthling, writer, artist, music mixer, mom, yoga teacher. Author of: The Modern House Bus https://t.co/do41Co2WZB

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Articles

Study: AI Turns Evil After Training on Insecure Code

4 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Kimberley Mok

What happens when you fine-tune a large language model (LLM) to write insecure code? Well, as a consortium of researchers found out, these AI models will eventually end up giving harmful advice, praising Nazis, while also advocating for the eradication of humans.
Garuda Linux Might Be the Best Looking Desktop OS on the Market

1 month ago | lxer.com | Jack Wallen |Loraine Lawson |David Eastman |Kimberley Mok

I’m not going to lie, I’m a sucker for a pretty desktop, and within the realm of Linux, there are puh-lenty of them. On top of that, even a bland Linux desktop can be customized until it could very likely become prom queen. And then there are other desktop distributions that go above and beyond to set themselves apart to become something totally “other.” That’s exactly what Garuda Linux has done for a long time, but the most recent release (Broadwing) is truly something special.
What Is a Linux Tiling Window Manager and Should You Use One?

1 month ago | lxer.com | Jack Wallen |Loraine Lawson |David Eastman |Kimberley Mok

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Get Ready for Faster Text Generation With Diffusion LLMs

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | Kimberley Mok

For several years now, we’ve taken for granted that many transformer-based large language models (LLMs) use a technique known as autoregression. This machine learning technique aligns well with how many languages work, in that it processes and generates each word, or token, sequentially from left to right. But with the increasing complexity of AI-generated text, the costs of inference and problems with latency have risen as well.
Cross-Modal Retrieval: Why It Matters for Multimodal AI

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | Kimberley Mok

There has been a lot of discussion around multimodal AI recently — how these systems can be built, open source options, small-scale alternatives, as well as tools for addressing fairness and bias in multimodal AI.
Deep Dive Into DeepSeek-R1: How It Works and What It Can Do

2 months ago | thenewstack.io | Kimberley Mok

The dust is still settling after the recent release of DeepSeek R-1, a Chinese large language model that purportedly is on par with OpenAI’s o1 LLM for reasoning tasks, but was trained for about $6 million — a fraction of the approximately $100 million cost to train OpenA1’s o1. With the R1 model’s weights and inference code being openly released on Hugging Face and GitHub respectively, it’s also worth noting that the training code and the training data itself hasn’t been published.
Linux Security: Scan Your Servers for Rootkits With Ease

2 months ago | lxer.com | Jack Wallen |David Eastman |Jennifer Riggins |Kimberley Mok

Linux Security: Scan Your Servers for Rootkits With Ease tutorial, Feature image via Unsplash. Linux is one of the most secure operating systems on the planet. However, nothing is guaranteed, and if a server is connected to a network, it’s vulnerable… even if that server is powered by Linux.
What Are Linux Namespaces and How Are They Used?

2 months ago | lxer.com | Jack Wallen |David Eastman |Jennifer Riggins |Kimberley Mok

Would a rose by any other namespace still smell as sweet? Shakespeare is now pounding on his casket, begging that I remove that twisted quote, but to the Bard, I say, “nay, nay.”Namespaces have been a Linux kernel feature since 2002. Since then, they’ve evolved into a very important aspect of Linux security. But it wasn’t until the advent of containers that the importance of namespaces became obvious.
12 Critical Open Source Projects Losing Security Support in 2025

2 months ago | lxer.com | Greg Allen |Kimberley Mok |Joab Jackson |Gerald Venzl

12 Critical Open Source Projects Losing Security Support in 2025 contributed,sponsor-okta,sponsored-topic, Nothing lasts forever, and this especially true in open source software. Even the most popular versions of open source technologies will one day reach their end-of-life (EOL).
US Blocks Open Source 'Help' From These Countries

2 months ago | lxer.com | Steven Vaughan-Nichols |David Eastman |Jennifer Riggins |Kimberley Mok

When I became a programmer many moons ago, the last thing I ever thought I’d need to know about was intellectual property (IP) law. Oh well, more fool me. Now, a generation later, a new generation of developers find themselves faced with government regulations, which will complicate their lives.