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 …
The Linux 7.2 kernel merge window has no new ARM64 KVM features, with developers attributing the lack to an overwhelming number of AI-fueled fixes flooding the mailing list. Other architectures like R…
Linux 7.2 kernel adds protections against crafted or corrupted perf data, preventing out-of-bounds reads/writes, infinite loops, heap overflows, and segmentation faults. Red Hat's Arnaldo Carvalho de …
Linux 7.2 kernel now supports post-quantum ML-DSA signatures for IMA and EVM, replacing RSA and ECC to protect against future quantum attacks. The update also introduces staged deletion of IMA measure…
EROFS, the open-source read-only file-system, has been updated in Linux 7.2 with optimized chunk mapping for more efficient I/O and added sparse support for pcluster layout to better handle large spar…
Fwupd 2.0.21 was released to backport fixes for over 250 potential security issues uncovered by AI security scanners, including Anthropic's Mythos. The update targets Linux distributions still using t…
Intel released Optimization Zone 1.1, a centralized repository of tuning guides for maximizing performance on Intel Xeon processors and some desktop CPUs. Newly covered workloads include Apache Cassan…
Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash AI model helped Linux user Marco Scardovi diagnose a 36-second boot delay on his ASUS ROG Strix G16 G614 laptop, caused by firmware leaving a touchpad GPIO line asserted. A D…
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 released GAIA 0.21.2, introducing gaia-bash, an AI-powered bash scripting assistant for writing, reviewing, testing, and debugging shell scripts on AMD hardware. The agent supports multiple interf…
A years-old bug in the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver causing laptop display freezes may finally be fixed with the help of Anthropic's Claude AI. The issue, tracked back to 2017, affected numerou…
AMD's upcoming GFX1250 and GFX1251 GPU targets, flagged with SRAM ECC support in LLVM, are confirmed as enterprise Instinct hardware, likely for the MI400 series. The feature flag, shared only with pr…
The rise of AI/LLM-generated patches is slowing down ARM64 Linux kernel development, according to maintainer Will Deacon. The extra review burden has pushed some features to future cycles, though Linu…
AMD-backed Lemonade AI server released v10.8 with Model Context Protocol (MCP) server integration, enabling MCP-compatible clients like GitHub Copilot and Claude Desktop to use local AI models as tool…