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New Rule Forbids GNOME Shell Extensions Made Using AI Generated Code

Phoronix - 3 hours 51 min ago
The GNOME.org Extensions hosting for GNOME Shell extensions will no longer accept new contributions with AI-generated code. A new rule has been added to their review guidelines to forbid AI-generated code...

LoongArch32 Support Begins Taking Shape In Linux 6.19, GCC 16

Phoronix - 4 hours 12 min ago
The LoongArch CPU architecture changes have been merged for the Linux 6.19 merge window. This domestic Chinese CPU architecture inspired by MIPS and RISC-V began with 64-bit LoongArch64 but with Linux 6.19 the foundation is being laid for LoongArch32 as a 32-bit variant...

New Linux Patch Confirms: Rust Experiment Is Done, Rust Is Here To Stay

Phoronix - 13 hours 56 min ago
Rust for Linux lead developer Miguel Ojeda posted the patch a short time ago to "conclude the Rust experiment". The "experiment" of Rust programming language code in the Linux kernel is over as it's now accepted to be a success and "Rust is here to stay" in the kernel...

KDE Plasma 6.6 Will Finally Support Proper Screen Mirroring On Wayland

Phoronix - 14 hours 12 min ago
It's an exciting week in KDE Plasma development land ahead of the holidays. Plasma 6.6 continues tacking on more feature work for Wayland...

Haiku OS Sees Port Of Go 1.18 Programming Language

Phoronix - 14 hours 22 min ago
The BeOS-inspired Haiku operating system has received a recent port of the Go programming language to the platform. Plus Haiku also saw app improvements and more over the month of November...

Wine 11.0-rc2 Released With 28 Known Bug Fixes

Phoronix - 16 hours 27 min ago
Following last week's Wine 11.0-rc1 release that marked the feature freeze as well in working toward Wine 11.0 in January, out today is Wine 11.0-rc2...

Linux 6.19 Lands x2AVIC Patches For AMD SVM Handling Up To 4096 vCPUs

Phoronix - 20 hours 9 min ago
The Kernel-based Virtual Machine "KVM" updates for Linux 6.19 include preparations by AMD for handling up to a possible 4,096 virtual CPUs for VMs...

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