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…
Linux 7.3 is expected to drop the FreeVxFS file-system driver, a read-only kernel driver for the Veritas VxFS file system formerly used by HP-UX and SCO UnixWare. Christian Brauner queued a patch by C…
Linux 7.2-rc6 was released with an unusually large number of patches, which Linus Torvalds described as 'huge' and the biggest rc6 in years by commit count. The release includes heavy fixes in sound, …
Phoronix reported that July 2026 saw the expiration of the last MPEG-4 Part 2 patent, Valve sponsoring a RADV port to Windows, and Linus Torvalds reaffirming that Linux is not anti-AI. The site publis…
GNOME developers advanced a formal Request For Comments (RFC) process for the project, with Sophie Herold of the GNOME Fellowship program laying out a proposed framework for discussion on GNOME Discou…
Debian developers are weighing five proposals for a general resolution on AI and large language model (LLM) usage within the project, ranging from an outright ban on LLM-assisted contributions (Propos…
The GCC Steering Committee announced a policy to decline any legally significant code contributions made via AI/LLM agents, except for test cases, aligning with existing GNU policies. The decision, ba…
A new open-source Linux desktop called Starling, written largely via the Claude AI assistant and using the Swift programming language with its own Wayland compositor in C, has been announced after six…
NVIDIA and more than two dozen companies, including Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Red Hat, SpaceX, and Palantir, have formed the Open Secure AI Alliance to improve security for open-source AI models. The all…
Linux 7.2-rc5 was released Sunday with a large patch set, driven in part by AI/LLM agents discovering bugs, according to Linus Torvalds. The release includes extensive networking fixes, audio driver u…
Debian developers are considering a general resolution to decide whether to permit or forbid contributions written with the assistance of large language models (LLMs) or other generative AI tooling. T…
AMD announced at its Advancing AI event in San Francisco that its ROCm software stack will adopt a six-week release cycle, replacing the previous quarterly schedule to deliver new features, performanc…
At the AMD Advancing AI 2026 event, AMD heavily emphasized open-source, open ecosystems, and open standards, with executives repeatedly stating "Our model at AMD is really on openness." The company an…
AMD CEO Lisa Su confirmed at AMD Advancing AI 2026 that the EPYC Zen 7 "Florence" processors will feature a next-gen process node, ACE AI compute extensions developed with Intel through the x86 Adviso…
AMD announced ROCm.AI, an AI-driven platform for developers, at its Advancing AI day, claiming it delivers an average of 3.3x inference improvement and 2.4x training improvement over ROCm 7.0. The pla…
AMD announced the EPYC 9006 "Venice" server processors at Advancing AI 2026, promising up to 256 cores per socket, support for DDR5-8000 and MRDIMM-12800 memory, PCIe Gen 6, and roughly 20% more perfo…
AMD launched the Instinct MI455X GPU with 432GB of HBM4 memory on a 2nm process, offering up to 4x the performance of the MI355X, alongside the Helios AI rack combining EPYC Venice CPUs, MI455X GPUs, …
AMD released Ryzen AI Software 1.8 on GitHub ahead of Lisa Su's keynote at the AMD Advancing AI event, adding support for new large language models, text-to-speech, embedding, and translation models, …
AMD-backed open-source project Lemonade released version 11.5 of its local AI server, featuring the completed Lemonade Router for automatically routing queries to relevant models based on rule, classi…
AMD's Ryzen AI Halo LED driver is queued for introduction in the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle, enabling LED customization on Ryzen AI Halo mini PCs. The driver, developed by AMD engineers, allows turning LE…