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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-03 20:39:08)
Intel Prepares More Nova Lake Graphics/Display Enablement For Linux 7.3

On Thursday Intel sent out their first batch of Intel kernel graphics driver changes of new feature material targeting the Linux 7.3 kernel. This first batch of drm-intel-next for v7.3 continues to focus heavily on lining up Nova Lake's Xe3P integrated graphics/display support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-DRM-First-For-Linux-7.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-03 20:09:08)
NVIDIA VR-NVL BMC Device Tree Being Upstreamed For OpenBMC Support

NVIDIA's latest Linux kernel mailing list patches are for providing the Device Tree for the baseboard management controller (BMC) of their Vera Rubin VR-NVL server platform. With the Linux kernel patches and also for U-Boot, it's part of the upstreaming effort for supporting the open-source OpenBMC software on their latest hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-VR-NVL-BMC-DT
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-03 20:09:06)
Linux 7.2-rc2 BPF Code Being Hardened Against JIT Spraying Attacks

Some post-merge-window code changes merged overnight ahead of Linux 7.2-rc2 this weekend is hardening the kernel's BPF code against JIT spraying attacks...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc3-BPF-Hardening
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-03 19:39:05)
Linux Preparing To Retire Its 32-bit MSR Interfaces

Currently measuring in at 32 patches, SUSE engineer Juergen Gross has been leading the effort to end the Linux kernel's usage of their 32-bit model specific register (MSR) interfaces so the more modern 64-bit interfaces can be exclusively used. This allows for better code unification and cleaning up the MSR code...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Ending-32-bit-MSR-Work
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-03 09:39:06)
ReactOS Implements First Windows NT6 System Call In Step Toward Vista Compatibility

The ReactOS project that is striving to be the "open-source Windows" with Windows driver and software binary compatibility hit another milestone today.  ReactOS to date has primarily targeted Windows NT 5.2 as the architecture from Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 but with an eye toward Windows NT 6.0 for Windows Vista and later compatibility with software. ReactOS has now landed their…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-First-NT6-Syscall
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-03 06:39:05)
Fedora 45 Considering x86_64 Shadow Stack Usage By Default

A change proposal under consideration for Fedora Linux 45 would enable x86_64 Shadow Stack usage by default in the name of better security on modern Intel and AMD systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-45-Consider-Shadow-Stack
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-03 02:54:05)
EFS File-System Slated For Removal With Linux 7.3 After 20+ Years Unmaintained

The EFS file-system was used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and disk partitions on SGI IRIX before IRIX 6.0 switched over to XFS. Inside the Linux kernel has been a read-only EFS file-system driver without a maintainer for 20+ years while for Linux 7.3 it's expected to be removed...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/EFS-File-System-Removal-Coming
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-03 00:24:06)
Linux Kernel Developers Again Discussing AI Agent Attribution - Potentially Dropping It

When AI/LLM agents are used in the creation of Linux kernel patches, the policy for a while now has been that it should be specified using an "Assisted-by" tag as part of the patches/commits. But Linux kernel developers this week have been discussing whether to revise that policy or to potentially eliminate it...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-AI-Attribution-Again
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-02 23:24:08)
RISC-V RVV Vector Performance Benchmarks With The SpacemiT K3 SoC

Since May we have been benchmarking the SpacemiT K3 RISC-V SoC as one of the first to market RISC-V chips supporting the RVA23 profile. The SpacemiT K3 has shown how far RISC-V performance has come in the past half decade and one of the promising elements of this modern RISC-V SoC with its X100/A100 cores is supporting the RISC-V Vector Extension "RVV" 1.0. In this article are some initial benchmarks look…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/risc-v-rvv-vector-benchmarks
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-02 22:24:05)
Intel Posts Initial GCC Compiler Patches For AI Compute Extensions "ACE"

The x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group led by Intel and AMD recently firmed up the AI Compute Extensions (ACE) specification for optimizing x86 for AI computation tasks around matrix multiplication and the like for machine learning workloads. The cross-vendor ACE extension is ultimately a successor to Intel's Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX). Posted to the GCC mailing list today by Intel engineers are th…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-GCC-ACE-AI-Patches
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-02 21:24:05)
Vibe Coded X11 Server Written In Rust Adds Xinerama, FreeBSD Support & Other Features

One month ago we reported on YSERVER as a modern X11 server written in Rust with the help of Claude Code. Since then YSERVER has continued to advance in supporting more X11 functionality thanks to the help of Claude Code (AI) and out today is version 1.3 o this display server...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/YSERVER-1.3-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-02 21:09:04)
KDE Plasma Affected By Arbitrary Code Execution To Break Sandboxes With "Open New Window"

A security disclosure has been made public today for a yet-to-be-patched arbitrary code execution vulnerability with the KDE Plasma desktop...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-ACE-New-Window
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-02 19:54:09)
Linux Looking To Retire A Number Of Old ARM Platforms In Early 2027

It's not only old x86 i486 CPU support being removed from the Linux kernel but a number of older ARM platforms and features are on the chopping block too. A proposal has been laid out for deprecating and then removing a number of outdated ARM platforms and features from the Linux kernel in early 2027...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Drop-Old-ARM-2027
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-02 19:54:07)
FFmpeg Introduces Vulkan APV Encoder

Back in May the FFmpeg project introduced Vulkan-accelerated decoding for the APV video format. The Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec was being handled using Vulkan shaders in a similar way to how FFmpeg implemented Vulkan acceleration for Apple ProRes. Now there is Vulkan-accelerated APV encoding too...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-Vulkan-Encoder-APV
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-02 19:54:06)
Rusticl OpenCL Driver Improving Hardware Utilization In Mesa 26.2

Red Hat engineer Karol Herbst has landed his latest optimization work to Rusticl in Mesa 26.2. The latest effort for this Rust-based OpenCL driver that works across Gallium3D drivers is around better hardware utilization...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rusticl-Better-Utilization-Mesa
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-02 18:56:39)
JPEG-XL libjxl 0.12 Brings More Performance Optimizations

A new release of libjxl is now available for this reference implementation of the JPEG-XL image format, including both image encode and decode support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/JPEG-XL-libjxl-0.12
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-02 18:56:36)
Box3D Debuts As New Open-Source 3D Physics Engine

Erin Catto who has been developing the Box2D 2D physics engine for games announced the release of Box3D. Box3D is now providing a new open-source 3D physics engine that is forked off from the Box2D code...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Box3D-Open-Source-3D-Physics
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-02 10:54:08)
Fedora Council Seeks To Shutdown Current Discussions Over AI Developer Desktop

Stemming from the widely varying views over the recent Fedora proposal for an "AI Developer Desktop" catering to running local AI and machine learning workloads in pre-configured environments with a seamless hardware-accelerated experience, the Fedora Council issued a statement this evening to effectively shutdown discussions for now over a Fedora AI Developer Desktop and to pause the Fedora …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Council-AI-Desktop
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-02 09:39:05)
Steam On Linux Usage Receded A Bit In June

Back in March Steam on Linux use shot up to 5.33% as a big 3.1% improvement over February. In April it dropped to 4.52% and then fell to 3.99% in May. Valve just published the Steam Survey numbers for June and it points to another minor setback from the recent all-time high of Steam on Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-June-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-02 06:09:06)
KDE Linux Introduces "Developer Mode" Option, Easier Log Collection

With the start of the new month comes a new progress report on the KDE Linux distribution for the prior month. Even with KDE developers being busy to ship Plasma 6.7 in June, they still accomplished a lot when it comes to KDE Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Linux-June-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-02 03:09:04)
System76 Launches New Lemur Pro Laptop Powered By Intel Panther Lake

System76 today announced their new Lemur Pro high-end Linux laptop that is now powered by the Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" SoCs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-Lemur-Pro-Panther-Lake
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-02 01:24:04)
Linux 7.3 To Overcome "Significant Bottleneck" For Small I/O With PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSDs

While the Linux 7.2 feature merge window ended just days ago and the better part of two months now before v7.2 will be released as stable, there are already features beginning to accumulate that will target the Linux 7.3 cycle. The most exciting change I've seen to kick off that dance ahead of Linux 7.3 is addressing a "significant" bottleneck affecting small direct I/O performance wit…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Faster-Small-Direct
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-02 00:54:06)
AMD Sends Out Latest Linux Patches For RMPOPT Optimization

Earlier this year AMD disclosed the RMPOPT instruction that given the timing will seemingly be introduced with upcoming Zen 6 EPYC "Venice" processors. The RMPOPT feature amounts to a performance optimization for AMD EPYC SEV-SNP enabled servers by cutting down on the associated Reverse Map Table (RMP) overhead. Linux enablement of AMD RMPOPT remains ongoing and out this week is the latest iteration of the enabl…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-RMPOPT-Linux-v10
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-01 22:39:08)
Glibc Introduces /etc/tunables.conf For System-Wide Tunables

Red Hat has contributed new system-wide tunables infrastructure to the GNU C Library "glibc" that allows specifying system-wide tunables via the new /etc/tunables.conf configuration file...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-System-Tunables
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-01 22:39:06)
RADV & RadeonSI Drivers See New Fixes For AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs

Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team continues taking special focus on AMD Radeon GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 era GPUs for enhancing the open-source graphics driver support for these aging graphics cards...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-L2-Flush-Fix-GFX6-GFX7
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-01 19:39:25)
GCC 16.2 Being Planned For Early August Release

For those that prefer waiting until the first bug-fix/point release before upgrading to a major new feature series, GCC 16.2 is being planned for an early August release for delivering back-ported bug fixes to the GCC 16 compiler...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-16.2-Early-August
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-01 19:24:05)
ASUS ROG Strix Laptop Sees Driver Fix For Linux Performance Too Low Compared To Windows

With modern laptops, proper platform/WMI drivers are becoming more depended upon not only for supporting all typical functionality from keyboards to backlights and other handling, but also for achieving proper performance. For many laptop vendors, the Linux platform drivers are maintained by the open-source community and actual customers. The latest example of the challenges of the c…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-ROG-Strix-G16-Fix
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-01 19:09:08)
Asahi Linux Fixes Booting With macOS 27, Progress On M3 & Apple Video Decode

The Asahi Linux project published a new blog post outlining recent development efforts in getting Apple Silicon hardware working with their downstream Linux distribution. There is ongoing work on bringing up Apple M3 support, fixing boot support for macOS 27 beta systems, Apple Video Decoder (AVD) support progress, and more...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Linux-AVD-Firmware-M3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-01 18:54:08)
NVIDIA Working On New "TLV" Firmware Binary Format For Nova Driver

NVIDIA engineers have been developing a new binary format for their GPU firmware images for use with the in-development, open-source Nova kernel driver. With this new TLV binary firmware format it aims to be easier to parse by their Rust-based driver code...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Nova-Driver-TLV
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-01 09:39:22)
Performance Optimizations, NVIDIA Vera, Arc Pro B70 & Other Linux Highlights From Q2

As the last planned article on Phoronix of Q2, here is a look back at what excited readers the most in the second quarter. There were 872 original news articles this quarter as well as 54 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles. Here is what excited readers the most over these past three months...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Q2-2026-Highlights
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