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Arm Preparing Live Firmware Activation Support For Linux

Phoronix - 53 min 52 sec ago
A new platform feature being worked on by Arm engineers for the Linux kernel is Live Firmware Activation to allow for updated firmware components to be deployed without requiring a system reboot...

Linux 7.0 Better Supporting The Logitech MX Master 4 Bluetooth Mouse

Phoronix - 1 hour 9 min ago
For those that happen to have the Logitech MX Master 4 wireless mouse or are considering this high-end ~$120 USD Bluetooth mouse, better support for it was merged yesterday to Linux 7.0...

CMake 4.3 Released With Package Import/Export Using The Common Package Specification

Phoronix - 10 hours 32 min ago
Version 4.3 of the CMake software development tool / build system was released today. Notable with CMake 4.3 is support for importing and exporting packages described using the Common Package Specification (CPS) for greater interoperability in the ecosystem...

systemd 260 Released: mstack, SysV Service Scripts Removed & AI Agents Documentation

Phoronix - 14 hours 47 min ago
Systemd 260 was just released as the newest stable version of this widely-used Linux init system and service manager. Systemd 260 brings yet more features to this critical open-source project and to be incorporated into H1'2026 Linux distributions...

OpenJDK 26 Released With The Java Applet API Finally Removed

Phoronix - 15 hours 37 min ago
OpenJDK 26 is out today as the newest GA reference version for the Java SE platform. With Java 26, it's finally time to say a goodbye to the Java Applet API...

AMD MLIR-AIE Releases New AIECC C++ Compiler To Help Bring New Workloads To Ryzen AI NPUs

Phoronix - 16 hours 2 min ago
AMD Ryzen AI NPUs are now running LLMs on Linux with the recently debuted Lemonade 10.0 server and FastFlowLM 0.9.35 adding Linux support. In addition to those software components, AMD engineers have also been developing MLIR-AIE as a compiler toolchain for AMD AI Engine devices such as Ryzen AI NPUs in leveraging LLVM-based code generation with the Multi-Level Intermediate Representation (MLIR). Out today is MLIR-AIE v1.3 with some notable new features...

AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 Begins Supporting RISC-V

Phoronix - 17 hours 17 min ago
The community-focused, RHEL/CentOS-derived AlmaLinux distribution announced its support today for the RISC-V CPU ISA with AlmaLinux Kitten 10 builds being made available...

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