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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-05 09:54:07)
OpenRazer 3.12.4 Fixes Compatibility With Linux 7.2
OpenRazer 3.12.4 is now available as the newest update to these out-of-tree, unofficial Linux drivers for Razer devices. OpenRazer when paired with the likes of Polychromatic or other GUI options is what makes for a nice experience running Razer gaming peripherals under Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenRazer-3.12.4
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-05 04:54:04)
FEX 2607 Optimizing For Yet-To-Be-Released ARM 256-bit SVE2 Hardware
The FEX Emulator that allows running Linux x86/x86_64 software on ARM64 (AArch64) systems, including the likes of Wine / Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for Windows gaming on ARM, is out with its newest monthly feature release. The Valve-backed project for running x86_64 games and other software on ARM for the upcoming Steam Frame and other more typical ARM Linux systems has been baking more optimizations …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-2607-Emulator
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-05 01:40:05)
Linux DRM Scheduler Patches Yield Massive Improvement For Job Submission Latency
A set of patches to the Linux kernel's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) scheduler that is shared among different kernel graphics drivers is showing the potential of delivering much lower job submission latency when the system is loaded with many runnable CPU processes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-Scheduler-Lower-Job-Submit
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-04 22:54:06)
4K @ 60 FPS USB Video Capture Finally Becomes Less Problematic On Linux
One area of Linux hardware testing I haven't explored much in many years has been modern USB video capture for the lack of said hardware. The last time I did much video capturing on Linux was during the Hauppauge PCI card days. It turns out though that USB video capture of 4K 60 FPS content has been a pain point under Linux but is finally smoothing out with newer versions of the Linux kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/4K-60-FPS-USB-Video-Capture
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-04 22:40:03)
Phoronix Premium Summer Sale To Help Support Linux Hardware Testing
For those that missed Phoronix turning 22 years old last month when running a special to help support the site, a few readers mentioned recently they missed out on seeing the deal in time. Paired with the US Independence Day holiday and summer sales elsewhere, now through 10 July is a Phoronix Premium summer sale if wishing to view the site ad-free while supporting the daily open-source/Linux news cover…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/2026-Summer-Sale
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-04 21:24:04)
GNOME Lands ext-background-effect-v1 Support For Background Blur Effect
Added to the Wayland Protocols repository back in May of 2025 was the ext-background-effect-v1 protocol for background blur that had been under discussion since early 2024. The initial focus is on being able to apply a blur effect on a window's background or otherwise a specified screen region. GNOME 51 has now merged support for ext-background-effect-v1 with the latest Mutter code...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-Background-Blur
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-04 19:39:34)
Linux 7.3 Adding More Graphics PCI IDs For Intel Nova Lake S
In addition to this week's drm-intel-next pull request beginning to lay out the Intel kernel graphics driver changes for Linux 7.3, the first drm-xe-next pull request was sent out on Friday. Intel Nova Lake enablement remains the hot area for the Intel GPU driver code...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-More-Nova-Lake-S-IDs
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-04 19:24:04)
Linux 7.2-rc2 Raising The Default RISC-V 64-bit CPU Limit To 256 Cores
A post merge-window change that landed in Linux Git overnight ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.2-rc2 release is bumping the default limit on the number of supported CPU cores for RISC-V 64-bit. Now by default Linux will support up to 256 cores with RISC-V 64-bit kernel builds...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-RISC-V-256-Cores
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-04 18:54:15)
KWin Compositor In KDE Plasma 6.8 Drops Support For Desktop OpenGL
Along with releasing Plasma 6.7.2 this week, KDE developers continue to be quite busy working on new features and improvements for the Plasma 6.8 release while also furthering along fixes for future Plasma 6.7 point releases...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.8-KWin-No-Desktop-GL
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-04 09:54:07)
GNOME Mutter GPU Reset Recovery Becoming A Reality
While typically quite rare encountering a GPU reset under Linux in most conditions, currently if encountering one under GNOME your session gets wiped out. But thanks to a Google Summer of Code "GSoC" project this year, GNOME's Mutter compositor is finally seeing real GPU reset recovery handling...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-GPU-Reset-Recovery-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-04 07:54:07)
GNOME 51 Alpha Released With Numerous Enhancements
In working toward the stable GNOME 51 desktop release due out in September, today marks the alpha release of GNOME 51...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-51-Alpha
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-04 04:09:19)
UPower 1.91.3 Fixes Behavior To Avoid Degrading Your Laptop Battery Faster
The UPower abstraction layer used for power management on Linux systems, especially laptops and desktops, is out with an important fix today to avoid inadvertently falling back to the laptop battery "fast" charging mode on some laptops that in turn could degrade your laptop battery faster...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/UPower-1.91.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-04 00:54:04)
Vulkan Adds Extension For OCP's Microscaling MX Formats To Help Machine Learning
Vulkan 1.4.356 is out today and it's interesting for the lone new extension debuting: VK_EXT_shader_ocp_microscaling_types. The VK_EXT_shader_ocp_microscaling_types is for enabling the Open Compute Project's Microscaling MX data types to help with machine learning workloads with Vulkan...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.356-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-04 00:24:05)
Coreboot + AMD openSIL On MSI Ryzen Motherboard Now Works With Windows 11
With 3mdeb's Dasharo port of AMD openSIL and Coreboot running on the Gigabyte EPYC motherboard, 3mdeb engineers have been devoting more time to their bring-up of Coreboot+openSIL on the MSI PRO B850-P consumer motherboard for desktop AMD Ryzen. They now even have Microsoft Windows 11 working atop this open-source firmware alternative along with other features implemented...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Coreboot-openSIL-MSI-Windows
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-03 21:39:04)
Rust Coreutils cp Ended Up Breaking Ubuntu Image Builds With Latest Incompatibility
While the Rust Coreutils offers better memory safety than GNU Coreutils due to being written in the Rust programming language, subtle incompatibilities continue to be spotted in the Rust Coreutils implementations of the different commands. The latest coming to light this week was the Rust Coreutils cp command breaking Ubuntu image builds due to differences in argument handling...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-cp-Ubuntu-Images
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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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