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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-17 19:24:04)
Mozilla AI Releases Llamafile 0.10.4 With New Transcribefile Built On Transcribe.cpp

Mozilla AI developers have released a new version of Llamafile,  their solution for easy-to-use LLMs as a single file that work across hardware and operating systems. With Llamafile 0.10.4 is now Transcribefile, as a new piece built off their recently announced Transcribe.cpp project...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Llamafile-0.10.4
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-17 19:09:05)
OpenBLAS 0.3.34 Improves Multi-Threading, Support For A Memory-Safe C Toolchain

OpenBLAS 0.3.34 released on Thursday as this popular, open-source BLAS library providing optimized support for a variety of CPUs/architectures. OpenBLAS 0.3.34 continues working on squeezing more performance  out of today's processors as well as delivering other new features...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenBLAS-0.3.34-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-17 10:09:07)
Frame: A New X11 Server Implementation Written Entirely In x86_64 Assembly

Previously we covered YSERVER as an X11 server written in the Rust programming language with the help of Claude Code. A Phoronix reader wrote in today to share an even more esoteric X11 server implementation that has come about and again written in large part by AI/LLM usage: Frame is an X11 server written in pure x86_64 Assembly...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Frame-X11-Server-Assembly
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-17 06:24:07)
KDE KWin Introduces Support For Server-Side Drop Shadows

The KDE Plasma 6.8 will be introducing support for server-side drop shadows with the feature recently having been merged to KWin...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Server-SIde-Drop-Shadows
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-17 06:09:06)
AMD's GAIA Continues Striving To Be Your Ultimate AI Companion For Emails

Yesterday saw the release of AMD's Lemonade 11.0 local AI server as well as ROCm 7.14 as the first production release built using TheRock. Out today is AMD's GAIA 0.22 software as their latest AI software release in working toward the AMD Advancing AI event next week in California...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GAIA-0.22
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-17 03:09:06)
FreeBSD Intern Working On Porting AMD ROCm To The BSD World

An intern with the FreeBSD Foundation is working on porting AMD's ROCm compute stack to run on this popular BSD environment...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Intern-AMD-ROCm
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-17 01:09:05)
Wayland 1.26 Released With New Pointer Warp Event

Simon Ser just announced the stable release of the Wayland 1.26 release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-1.26-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-17 00:24:05)
Microsoft Goes Nostalgic In Newest Open-Source Drop: Comic Chat Open-Sourced After 30 Years

Introduced in 1996 with Internet Explorer 3.0, Microsoft Comic Chat provided comic-like avatars driven IRC chat client. After 30 years, this proprietary IRC chat client that was removed in Internet Explorer 6.0, is now open-source software...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Comic-Chat-OSS
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-16 22:09:08)
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D Linux Performance

Today the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D goes on sale as the lowest-price AMD 3D V-Cache processor being marketed for gamers. This 8-core / 16-thread processor features a 4.5GHz boost clock and a total of 104MB of cache while being based on the older Zen 4 architecture and coming in at about $329 USD. Here is a look at how the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D is performing on Linux.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-7-7700x3d
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-16 22:09:06)
Linux Floppy Driver For Apple's Super Woz Integrated Machine "SWIM" In Old Macs Improved

This is quite unexpected and was not on my bingo card for this year or even decade... The Linux driver for the floppy disk controller in Apple's legacy Super Woz Integrated Machine (SWIM) saw a large set of patches today for improving its performance and delivering various fixes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-2026-Apple-SWIM-Floppy
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-16 19:24:08)
New Linux Driver Improving Support For GETAC Rugged Laptops

GETAC manufactures a line of rugged/semi-rugged laptops for use in the public safety, defense, industrial manufacturing, oil and gas, and other industries. While shipping with Microsoft Windows out-of-the-box, a new driver has been proposed as GETAC MPMD as a minimal ACPI driver for improving support for these GETAC rugged laptops. In particular, the driver will allow the various programmable buttons on these l…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GETAC-ACPI-Driver-Buttons-Linux
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-16 19:24:06)
Ubuntu Kernel Team Warns Of Temporary AMD GPU Performance Regression Up To 42x

The Ubuntu Kernel Team issued a statement this morning to proactively warn Ubuntu Linux users on Ubuntu 26.04 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS HWE users that the next kernel point release will contain a performance regression for AMD GPUs in compute-heavy workloads with up to a 42x performance hit. The positive news is that due to this being an upstream regression in a Linux 7.0 point release, upstream s…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-7.0-AMDGPU-Regress
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-16 19:09:06)
Imagination PowerVR BXM-4-64 GPU Firmware Upstreamed For The T-Head TH1520

Now in the upstream linux-firmware.git centralized repository is the firmware binary needed for enabling the Imagination Tech PowerVR BXM-4-64 Rogue GPU found with the Alibaba T-Head TH1520 SoC...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/IMG-PowerVR-BXM-4-64-FW
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-16 11:54:06)
AMD ROCm 7.14 Announced As New Production Release, Ryzen AI 400 Series Support

As a follow-up to the article over ROCm 7.14 being tagged, AMD has formally announced the availability of ROCm 7.14 and it's their new production release rather than being a tech preview...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-7.14
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-16 09:39:05)
AMD ROCm 7.14 "TheRock" Tech Preview Tagged For Latest AMD GPU Compute Stack

AMD's software team appears to be busy getting ready for next week's Advancing AI event happening next week in San Francisco. In addition to the release today of the Lemonade 11.0 local AI server, TheRock 7.14 was also tagged as the modern build system for ROCm working on the latest tech preview releases of this open-source AMD GPU compute stack...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-TheRock-7.14
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-16 06:24:06)
Mesa 26.2-rc1 Released In Ending Feature Work For This Quarter's 3D Graphics Stack

Mesa 26.2 was branched today from Mesa Git and in turn Mesa 26.3-devel is now open on mainline...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.2-rc1-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-16 05:09:07)
AMD Releases Lemonade 11.0 Local AI Server With Text-To-Speech, Other New Features

Ahead of the AMD Advancing AI event next week, today AMD released Lemonade 11.0 as the latest feature release of their local AI server supporting AMD Ryzen CPUs, AMD Radeon GPUs, and AMD Ryzen AI NPU acceleration...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Lemonade-11.0
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-16 01:24:06)
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS vs. Windows 11 vs. CachyOS Performance On A $5399 Laptop

Earlier this month on Phoronix I reviewed the Razer Blade 18 RZ09-0582 as the first laptop Razer is certifying for Linux use via Canonical's hardware certification program for Linux. It offered very nice performance with the Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics albeit costly with a configured price of $5399 USD. That review featured benchmarks on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS but …
https://www.phoronix.com/review/razer-blade18-windows-linux
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-15 22:09:05)
Linux Patches Finally Allow Apple Magic Keyboard/Mouse Battery Monitoring Via Bluetooth

Besides the ongoing challenges of enabling newer Apple Silicon SoC support on Linux, Apple peripheral support on Linux remains a mixed bag depending on the product as well. The latest functionality now being addressed is for having battery reporting work for the Apple Magic Mouse and Magic Keyboard when connected via Bluetooth...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-Magic-Bluetooth-Battery
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-15 19:54:05)
Linus Torvalds Reaffirms That Linux Is Not "Anti-AI" & Not A "Social Warrior" Project

Overnight Linux creator Linus Torvalds wrote another well crafted message that reaffirms the Linux kernel position of not being against AI and lashing back against some kernel developers that are against AI/LLM usage within the kernel project...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Is-Not-Anti-AI
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-15 19:24:07)
Vocalinux 0.14 Beta Released For Offline Voice Dictation / Speech-To-Text On Linux

Ubuntu 26.10 is notably working on laying the foundation for a context-aware desktop and their initial deliverable being worked on is Myna as a speech-to-text solution for the Linux desktop. Interestingly there is already a promising voice dictation / speech-to-text solution for the Linux desktop called Vocalinux that continues advancing and is usable right now for those looking at their …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vocalinux-0.14-Beta
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-15 19:24:06)
FreeBSD Laptop Support Continues Improving With WiFi, GPU & Audio Driver Work

The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Project, which has received more than $750k USD in funding to improve the experience of FreeBSD on laptops, is out with its newest monthly progress report. A lot continues to happen for improving the FreeBSD laptop story, which in many aspects also benefits FreeBSD on the desktop too...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Laptops-June-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-15 18:54:06)
Mesa's Native Vulkan-To-Metal Driver Now Advertises Vulkan 1.4

KosmicKrisp as the Vulkan API driver built atop Apple's Metal API in Mesa for macOS and iOS systems is now advertising Vulkan 1.4 compatibility...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KosmicKrisp-Vulkan-1.4
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-15 10:09:05)
Khronos Lists First Conformant OpenCL 3.1 Implementation: Apple M1/M2 On Asashi Linux With Rusticl

Back in May OpenCL 3.1 was announced with a focus on AI and HPC workloads. Just over two months later, this incremental update over OpenCL 3.0 mow has its first listed conformant OpenCL 3.1 implementation for passing the OpenCL 3.1 conformance test suite cases. It's Apple Silicon M1/M2 graphics running on Asahi Linux with the Mesa Rusticl driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenCL-3.1-Conformance-Apple
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-15 07:54:05)
COSMIC Epoch 1.3 Released With New Frosted Glass Option

For those that were intrigued by the COSMIC desktop's "Frosted Glass" effect, it's now available in released form with today's COSMIC Epoch 1.3 release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Epoch-1.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-15 04:54:04)
FreeBSD 16 Retires The Last Of Its GPL Code From Its Base System

As of this past week in the FreeBSD source tree for FreeBSD 16, the last of the GNU GPL licensed code from the base system has been retired...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-16-Goes-GPL-Free
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-15 04:09:06)
BOSGAME VTA-439: A Great, Linux-Friendly Mini PC Powered By AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470

For those that were intrigued by the recent launch of the AMD Ryzen AI Halo developer platform with a very capable mini PC but looking for something more affordable and not needing quite as much horsepower or AI focus, BOSGAME recently launched their VTA-439 mini PC. The BOSGAME VTA-439 is powered by the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 with Radeon 890M graphics for those wanting still quite a capabl…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/bosgame-vta-439
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-15 01:24:05)
Blender 5.2 LTS Released With Many Great Enhancements

Blender 5.2 is out today as the newest Long Term Support release for this leading, open-source 3D modeling software...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-5.2-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-15 00:39:05)
System76 Launches New Adder Pro Laptop With NVIDIA GPU, 2K OLED & Up To 96GB RAM

System76 today announced their new Adder Pro laptop that they are promoting as the "gamer's dream machine" with its NVIDIA graphics, 2K OLED 500 nit display, up to 96GB RAM, and 3.37 lb weight...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-Adder-Pro-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-14 22:39:03)
Linux Foundation's Latest Foray Is To Standardize Internet-Native Payments For AI Agents

There is yet-another-foundation being stewarded by the Linux Foundation that further broadens its scope outside of the typical Linux/open-source umbrella. Today the Linux Foundation announced the launch of the x402 Foundation for aiming to standardize Internet-native payments for AI agents and applications...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Foundation-x402
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