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NVIDIA 595 Linux Graphics Driver Released as Latest Production Branch Version  9to5Linux

Proposed code for Blender's EEVEE engine can lead to both the OpenGL and Vulkan performance doubling in instancing-heavy scenes that are CPU bottlenecked...

Krita 6.0 debuted today as the Qt6 port of this digital painting program aligned with KDE/Qt development. Krita 6.0 also brings improved Wayland support while Krita 5.3 is being simultaneously released for running on the mature Qt5 toolkit...

Krita 6.0 Released With Qt6 Port & Better Wayland Support  Phoronix

Inside Pay2Key: Technical Analysis of a Linux Ransomware Variant  Morphisec

CIQ and AMD Collaborate to Deliver Optimized Enterprise AI and HPC Infrastructure  PR Newswire

Krita 6.0 Digital Painting App Released with Wayland Color Management Support  9to5Linux

10 beginner-friendly Linux distros that aren’t Mint (and why you might prefer them)  How-To Geek

War Thunder Infantry gets a new trailer and test event  GamingOnLinux

Linux 7.1 To Overcome Reporting Limitation For Multiple Batteries Per HID Device  Phoronix

Systemd-free antiX Linux 26: Debian 13, in bonsai form  theregister.com

A limitation affecting various gaming headsets, graphic tablets, wireless earbuds, multi-device receivers and more with Linux has been not being able to report multiple batteries per HID device. After patches were proposed last year for dealing with the increasingly common scenario these days of having multiple batteries per device, the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel is set to address this limitation...

You've heard wrong: Pop!_OS isn't the best beginner Linux distro  How-To Geek

OpenBLAS 0.3.32 is now available for this optimized open-source Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms "BLAS" library. Notable with the OpenBLAS 0.3.32 release is improving CPU auto-detection for newer Intel processors...

Back in February AMD engineers introduced a new GFX1170 GPU target in LLVM for their AMDGPU shader compiler and was marked with new "RDNA 4m" branding. It's part of the GFX11 family associated with RDNA3 but carrying this new "4m" branding. In follow-up commits they made further ISA changes distinguishing it from existing RDNA 3 GPUs. Now there are two more RDNA 4m targets being added...

Additional AMD RDNA 4m GPU Targets Coming: GFX1171 & GFX1172  Phoronix

KubeCon Europe is running this week in Amsterdam and NVIDIA used the event to talk up their open-source work around AI and newest open-source contributions...

Opera GX Debuts on Linux with Performance Controls  findarticles.com

Opera GX for Linux is way more than great gaming browser - here's why  ZDNET

The GTK 4.0 toolkit released in December 2020 while the GTK3 toolkit has continued to be maintained given a lot of software still relying on that older version. GTK 3.24.52 was released yesterday and with this version it's now shifting its release cadence to just one new update per year...