Apex Compute, the California-based startup founded in 2024 that is developing high-efficiency AI accelerators for real-time edge AI inferencing, is building an open-source Vulkan driver based on Mesa …
Qualcomm announced an early developer preview of Linux running on its upcoming Snapdragon X2 Series laptop processors, revealed alongside demonstrations at Snapdragon Summit, targeting kernel contribu…
Darktable 5.6.1, the first maintenance update in the 5.6 series of the open-source photography workflow application, was released today, improving AI-based RAW processing and GPU stability. The update…
Linus Torvalds fixed a two-year-old Linux kernel bug in Intel's Xe GPU driver that caused black screens on Intel Arc GPUs, after 24 debug patches and 18 kernel boots. The fix changed a memory offset r…
Mesa 26.2, released August 5, enables NVIDIA DLSS on Linux through the open-source NVK Vulkan driver by implementing the VK_NVX_binary_import extension, allowing the driver to load prebuilt NVIDIA CuB…
Sunset Visitor studio announced 'Prove You're Human', a psychological horror game where players, as a digital clone named Santana, must convince a sentient-seeming AI called Mesa that it has no physic…
Sunset Visitor studio founder Remy Siu announced the upcoming psychological horror game Prove You're Human, in which players must convince an AI that it is not alive. The game follows Santana, whose d…
Code enabling experimental DLSS support for the open-source NVK Vulkan driver was merged into Mesa 26.2-devel on June 19, 2026. The feature, gated behind the NVK_EXPERIMENTAL=dlss environment variable…
The open-source NVK Vulkan driver for Nvidia GPUs has merged experimental support for DLSS by importing pre-compiled CUDA binaries via the VK_NVX_binary_import extension, bypassing Nvidia's proprietar…
The open-source NVIDIA NVK Vulkan driver merged support for Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) into Mesa 26.2-devel, enabling DLSS on Linux/Steam Play for modern games. The implementation relies on t…
AMD engineers are preparing open-source graphics driver support for a new GFX1156 graphics IP block in Mesa 26.2, which falls under the RDNA 3.5 "refresh" lineup as a future APU part. The GFX1156 is n…
This article describes a method to run OpenGL 4.6 applications, specifically Minecraft, on macOS by translating OpenGL calls through a chain of graphics APIs: OpenGL → Vulkan → Metal. The process uses…