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A Small But Useful Debugging Addition For AMD Zen Systems With Linux 7.1

Phoronix - 2 hours 38 min ago
A small but convenient feature is coming with the Linux 7.1 that will be useful in debugging AMD Zen system problems and information reporting/transparency purposes...

NetBSD 11.0 Nears Release With RC3 Released For Testing

Phoronix - Mon, 04/06/2026 - 22:53
For the better part of the past year NetBSD developers have been preparing for the NetBSD 11.0 release and in February NetBSD 11.0-RC1 released followed by 11.0-RC2 and now a third release candidate was announced today...

Wine Staging 11.6 Ships Big Patch Series For Working On DirectComposition

Phoronix - Mon, 04/06/2026 - 22:15
Following Friday's release of Wine 11.6 with reviving the Android driver and improving game mod support as part of DLL loader updates, Wine-Staging 11.6 is out today with extra patches atop...

Many MediaTek MT76 WiFi Driver Improvements Coming For Linux 7.1

Phoronix - Mon, 04/06/2026 - 18:40
Separate from the recently discussed work on MediaTek MT7927 "Filogic 380" support being worked on for the MT76 Linux driver (still undergoing review), a number of other MediaTek MT76 wireless driver improvements are queued up ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window opening as soon as next week...

Google Proposes JSIR As A High-Level IR For JavaScript

Phoronix - Mon, 04/06/2026 - 18:11
Google engineers have been developing JSIR as a high-level intermediate representation (JSIR) for JavaScript that they are already using in production at the company code code analysis and transforming other code/bytecode to JavaScript as well as for deobfuscating JavaScript code...

Tiny Corp Begins Accepting Pre-Orders For Their $10M Exabox

Phoronix - Mon, 04/06/2026 - 18:03
Open-source friendly company Tiny Corp that is behind the Tinygrad MIT-licensed neural network framework and developing a "sovereign" AMD GPU driver stack with their Tinybox hardware offerings has their sights on shipping the Exabox next year. The Tiny Corp's Exabox is expected to retail for around $10M USD but offer immense AI compute power...

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