2+ hour, 12+ min ago  (211+ words) The open-source PanVK driver providing Vulkan support for modern Arm Mali graphics hardware is seeing big speed-ups in the multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) performance in Vulkan tests as a result of new code merged today to Mesa 26.1... - Categories Computers Display Drivers…...

6+ hour, 11+ min ago  (217+ words) Following yesterday's Linux 7.0-rc1 release, Linus Torvalds authored and merged a patch to get rid of the Linux kernel's WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM Kconfig option. While that option was added with good intentions, on some systems it can yield a lot of unnecessary kernel log…...

7+ hour, 28+ min ago  (190+ words) The newest driver proposed for the Linux kernel's accelerator "accel" subsystem is named QDA and is a Qualcomm DSP Accelerator driver... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Qualcomm Posts Patches…...

9+ hour, 8+ min ago  (224+ words) Intel's open-source OpenVINO AI toolkit is out with its first major release of 2026. With today's OpenVINO 2026.0 release there is expanded large language model (LLM) support, improved Intel NPU support for Core Ultra systems, and a variety of other enhancements for benefiting…...

10+ hour, 47+ min ago  (207+ words) Firefox 148 release binaries are now available ahead of the official release announcement on Tuesday. Most notable is the new AI controls found with Firefox 148 for those wishing to disable Firefox's growing AI capabilities... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux…...

12+ hour, 14+ min ago  (218+ words) The FreeBSD Project has published their Q4'2025 status report to outline progress made on their software, infrastructure, and other initiatives over the past quarter. Meanwhile among the work to look forward to this year in FreeBSD is getting their Rust kernel…...

12+ hour, 54+ min ago  (205+ words) It was less than four years ago that the modern AMDGPU/AMDKFD open-source driver stack was at four million lines of C code and header files. Now with the Linux 7.0 kernel it has surpassed six million lines. Or put another…...

13+ hour, 29+ min ago  (155+ words) For those interested in Vulkan Video on the Intel "ANV" open-source Linux driver, merged last week to Mesa 26.1-devel were some H.265 encode fixes... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Intel…...

15+ hour, 50+ min ago  (206+ words) While these days nearly every major desktop Linux distribution is using Wayland or at least making it available, a decade ago before reaching that maturity one of the options for showing off the potential of Wayland was the oddly-named RebeccaBlack…...

17+ hour, 8+ min ago  (164+ words) FFmpeg developer Lynne is most known recently for all the Vulkan Video work to this open-source multimedia library while merged today to FFmpeg is another great contribution outside the scope of that: xHE-AAC MPS212 audio decoding support... - Categories Computers Display Drivers…...