After one week of running local AI on AMD's Strix Halo hardware in mid-August 2026, the user reports that the hardware is fine but the software stack is far from ready, with crashes and performance is…
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…
A developer switched from Ollama to llama.cpp to run a Qwen2.5-14B model on a dual-GPU AMD handheld, gaining efficiency and hardware control. The switch involved locating the Ollama blob, symlinking i…
Dictata v0.1.0, a 100% local system-wide voice dictation app for Windows built in Rust, transcribes speech via whisper.cpp and offers optional LLM cleanup, with no data leaving the machine. The releas…
OpenTESArena 0.18.0, the open-source re-implementation of The Elder Scrolls: Arena, is now available, adding enemy combat AI, leveling up, NPC conversations, thieving mode, and shopkeeper services. Th…
Upscal, a native C++/Vulkan image upscaler for Windows, offers free, offline AI enhancement for images and videos across Windows, macOS, iPhone, and iPad, with no cloud upload, subscription, or hidden…
FFmpeg 9.0 “Lei” shipped today, adding Vulkan GPU acceleration for 360-degree video and Samsung's APV codec, plus ONNX Runtime GPU execution for AI filters, while removing the CELT decoder and droppin…
AI coding agents are eroding Nvidia's CUDA software moat by lowering the expertise barrier for GPU kernel development, according to a tech analysis. Tools like Anthropic's Claude Code can generate per…
FFmpeg 9.0, the latest feature release of the open-source multimedia library, is now available with more Vulkan acceleration, including APV video decoding and Apple ProRes RAW Vulkan acceleration, plu…
Danny Arends, a long-time D language developer, has built DLLM, a minimal coding agent in D that runs directly on llama.cpp without Python or bindings, using D's ImportC feature to access the C API wi…
Quartz, a from-scratch Rust inference engine developed by Saient, has been open-sourced, enabling on-device video generation with Wan2.1 T2V (1.3B parameters) on a Samsung Galaxy S24's Vulkan GPU, alo…
NERVOSYS founder Adam Erickson launched IronAccelerator on July 28th, a Rust-based CUDA interface that claims faster host-side performance than cudarc while preserving its API. NERVOSYS reports host-t…
PostSlate, a video editing startup, achieves up to 10x faster inference on edge devices by switching from ONNX Runtime CPU to ncnn with Vulkan GPU backend, with ArcFace R50 dropping from 30 ms to 3 ms…
A developer released CRTULUM, a Rust-based Wayland and Vulkan application that renders a 3D CRT monitor on screen, captures other program windows or images, and runs RetroArch cores for emulation with…
Primate Labs released Geekbench 7, a major update to its cross-platform benchmarking tool, with new and improved workloads for CPUs and GPUs that better reflect real-world usage in 2026. The update in…
Primate Labs released Geekbench 7 today, featuring overhauled CPU and GPU performance tests that emphasize machine learning, content creation, and real-world tasks such as face tracking, image upscali…
Primate Labs launched Geekbench 7, a benchmarking suite with redesigned multi-core and GPU benchmarks that focus on real-world application performance and machine learning tasks. The GPU benchmark inc…
Sascha Willems released an updated tutorial, "How to Vulkan in 2026," demonstrating modern Vulkan 1.3 features including dynamic rendering, buffer device address, descriptor indexing, and Synchronizat…
PixelUp, a 100% offline AI video upscaler for Windows, uses optimized FSRCNN and ESPCN deep learning models with universal hardware acceleration via CUDA, Vulkan, or CPU to upscale low-resolution vide…
A developer details how to build high-performance edge AI pipelines on Android using CameraX and TFLite, addressing common performance pitfalls like the 'Edge AI Wall' and advocating for hardware acce…