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Bcachefs Lands More Bug Fixes In Linux 6.14

Last week saw the big set of Bcachefs updates merged for the Linux 6.14 kernel that included the last anticipated big on-disk format change as well as scalability improvements. It was a particularly big pull after Bcachefs missed out on any changes bei...

2025-01-30 14:05

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Intel Details Its Pluton-Capable Partner Security Engine With Core Ultra Series 2

One of the details not too widely talked about with Intel's newest Core Ultra Series 2 processors is the introduction of the Partner Security Engine, which is a new dedicated security engine on the SOC that is capable of running the Microsoft Pluton fi...

2025-01-30 12:53

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GNOME Display Control Utility "gdctl" Merged For GNOME 48

Just ahead of the GNOME 48 feature freeze this weekend, gdctl has been merged into GNOME's Mutter as the GNOME Display Control Utility...

2025-01-30 11:20

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Yandex Open-Sources Perforator: Find Code Inefficiencies & "Save Billions of Dollars"

Internet tech company Yandex announced the open-source release today of Perforator as a tool to help identify and evaluate code inefficiencies at scale. They say Perforator can lead to businesses saving "billions of dollars a year on server infrastruct...

2025-01-30 10:29

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Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down

Days after a DRM driver developer orphaned his drivers due to health reasons in stepping down, the sole maintainer at large of the Linux wireless (WiFi) drivers is stepping down and without any immediate replacement...

2025-01-30 10:16

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NVIDIA 570.86.16 Beta Linux Driver Published With GeForce RTX 5080 / RTX 5090 Support

The NVIDIA 570.86.16 beta Linux driver was just published in time for the GeForce RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 graphics cards hitting store shelves this morning...

2025-01-30 08:58

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AMD AE4DMA Driver Merged For Linux 6.14

In addition to the AMDXDNA driver being merged for Linux 6.14 for enabling the Ryzen AI NPUs, this next kernel version is introducing another new AMD kernel driver that hasn't been previously covered on Phoronix: AMD AE4DMA...

2025-01-30 07:00

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Intel Linux Graphics Driver Merges "Major Improvement" For Xe3 With VRT Support

The open-source Intel Linux Mesa graphics driver code has merged support for a "major improvement" found with next-gen Xe3 graphics... Variable Register Thread (VRT) as one of the nifty features that will help with Intel integrated and discrete graphic...

2025-01-30 06:38

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SoundWire Multi-Lane Support Submitted For Linux 6.14

All of the MIPI SoundWire related updates have been submitted for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel. SoundWire as a reminder is the standard interface for modern, small audio peripherals...

2025-01-30 06:20

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Linux 6.14 CXL Updates Make Preparations Around Type 2 Support & CXL 3.1

The Compute Express Link (CXL) updates have been sent out and merged for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel...

2025-01-30 04:00

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Wine Merge Request Opened For NTSYNC In-Process Synchronization With Linux 6.14+

Now that the full-functioning NTSYNC driver is ready for Linux 6.14 for better emulating the Windows NT synchronization primitives on Linux, the merge request has been opened for upstream Wine to land the NTSYNC integration on its side for in-process s...

2025-01-29 20:32

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AMD GPU Operator Announced For Automated Driver Installation & Kubernetes Support

AMD today announced two new software projects to better enhance their software support for Instinct accelerators / graphics deployments within the data center: AMD GPU Operator and AMD Metrics Exporter...

2025-01-29 20:21

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Open-Source RADV Radeon Driver Support For RDNA4: "Should Be Good Enough"

Lead RADV developer Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has provided some insight into the support expectations for this open-source Radeon Vulkan driver with the upcoming Radeon RX 9070 "RDNA4" graphics cards...

2025-01-29 15:29

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X.Org / FreeDesktop.org Encounters New Cloud Crisis: Needs New Infrastructure Very Soon

About five years ago X.Org / FreeDesktop.org was experiencing a cloud hosting crisis with their cloud costs running out of control after losing free credits for Google Cloud and the continuous integration (CI) testing driving up expenses. They ended up...

2025-01-29 13:07

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PyTorch 2.6 Delivers FP16 Support For x86 CPUs, Better Intel GPU Experience

PyTorch 2.6 is out today as the newest feature release to this widely-used machine learning library...

2025-01-29 12:49

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Ubuntu Developers Moving From IRC To Matrix For Real-Time Communication

Following a discussion on the Ubuntu development mailing list, Ubuntu developers have decided to adopt Matrix for their official real-time communication channels while deprecating IRC chat...

2025-01-29 10:34

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Linux GPU Compute Performance

Last week was the review embargo lift on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card while today the review embargo lifts on the GeForce RTX 5080, both of which graphics cards are officially available in the retail channel tomorrow (30 January). Due to w...

2025-01-29 09:00

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GNU C Library 2.41 Released With New C23 Features, Intel / AMD / Arm CPU Optimizations

As expected, GNU C Library "glibc" 2.41 is now available as the newest half-year feature release to this important C library for Linux systems and other environments...

2025-01-29 08:43

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Bytedance Praises eBPF - Notes 10% Improvement In Network Throughput

Bytedance is praising eBPF as the in-kernel virtual machine for dynamic programs to help speed-up network packet processing, greater tracing and profiling abilities, and a wide-range of other purposes for these dynamic in-kernel programs. By tapping eB...

2025-01-29 08:30

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Mesa 25.0 Sees New Driver Code To Further Enhance RadeonSI + ACO

AMD Mesa driver guru Marek Olšák has landed a new set of 48 patches into Mesa 25.0-devel Git for refactoring various AMD-related driver code to work on improving the ACO compiler support within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

2025-01-29 06:54

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