AMD released ZenDNN 6.0, an open-source deep neural network library for accelerating inference on Ryzen and EPYC CPUs. The update arrives before the official Zen 6 debut and includes improvements to t…
XWayland 24.1.13 has been released to fix two security issues in the X.Org codebase, including a buffer overflow (CVE-2026-55999) and a use-after-free (CVE-2026-56000) discovered by Trend Micro Zero D…
NVIDIA confirmed details of its next-generation Rosa CPU with Rigel core, which will feature higher per-core performance, larger L2 cache, and more efficient memory handling while maintaining Vera's s…
AMD's Ryzen AI Halo mini PC, built on the Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" platform, began shipping this week after pre-orders last month. Phoronix tested the device, which features fully open-source softwa…
AMD has launched its own Linux distribution, the Ryzen AI Developer Platform 1 'Rex', built atop Debian, for its Ryzen AI Halo mini PC. The OS, which includes ROCm preloaded, surprised reviewers expec…
Intel is preparing Linux kernel patches for IPU8 web camera support in upcoming Nova Lake laptops, succeeding Panther Lake's IPU7.5. The patches suggest IPU8 may incorporate more AI features for image…
The FEX Emulator, a Valve-backed project for running x86/x86_64 software on ARM64 systems, released its FEX 2607 update with optimizations for yet-to-be-released 256-bit SVE2 ARM processors, improveme…
Vulkan 1.4.356 introduces the VK_EXT_shader_ocp_microscaling_types extension, adding support for Open Compute Project Microscaling MX data types (MXFP4, MXFP6, MXFP8, MXINT8) to improve machine learni…
Linux kernel developers are debating whether to simplify or eliminate the requirement for AI/LLM agent attribution in patches, with prominent developer Christian Brauner arguing the current policy cre…
Intel engineers posted initial GCC compiler patches for the AI Compute Extensions (ACE), a cross-vendor x86 specification for optimizing AI and machine learning workloads. The ACE specification, devel…
YSERVER, a modern X11 server written in Rust with AI assistance from Claude Code, has released version 1.3 with new features including FreeBSD support, Xinerama extension, direct mode VT switching, an…
Phoronix reported that Q2 2025 featured 872 news articles and 54 hardware reviews, with top stories including Linux kernel optimizations, NVIDIA Vera CPU, Intel Arc Pro B70, and AI/LLM impacts. Popula…
Intel has removed AMX-TF32 support from its ISA programming reference manual and is stripping the feature from the GNU Compiler Collection, killing the planned extension before its debut in Xeon Diamo…
The Servo browser engine released version 0.3 with improvements including CSS font features, new DOM APIs, SpiderMonkey updates, and WebGPU support, while operating on less than $8,000 in monthly dona…
GCC 17 has landed support for the SpacemiT X100 RISC-V core, the first widely-available RVA23 profile compliant design, via -mcpu=spacemit-x100 and -mtune=spacemit-x100 targeting. The SpacemiT K3 SoC …
ZLUDA v6 has been released with improved PhysX support on AMD GPUs and better Windows compatibility, but the project has lost its commercial funding from an unnamed party, reverting to a weekend proje…
The Linux kernel in Q2 2026 removed old hardware drivers including i486 CPU support and eliminated the strncpy API after six years of work, while AI/LLM-detected security vulnerabilities drove some ch…
GNOME-aligned AI assistant Newelle released version 1.4.5, adding integrated AI image generation support via Stable Diffusion and cloud models from OpenAI, Pollinations, and OpenRouter. The update als…
The Linux Foundation, Amazon, Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Red Hat, and others launched Akrites, a project to defend critical open-source software from AI-discovered vulnerabilities. Akrites …
AMD engineer Steven Xiao contributed an ONNX Runtime back-end for FFmpeg's DNN filter, enabling AI model inferencing on multiple GPU and NPU platforms including NVIDIA CUDA, Windows DirectML, and AMD …