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Linux Foundation & Others Launch "Akrites" To Defend Open-Source Software From AI-Enabled Exploits

Phoronix - 2 hours 15 min ago
The Linux Foundation along with others like Amazon, Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Red Hat, and others have joined forces to launch Akrites. The Akrites project is aiming to help defend critical open-source software from the brisk pace of new AI/LLM-discovered software bugs and vulnerabilities in ensuring that said issues are effectively addressed before they can be exploited by bad actors...

DXVK 3.0 Released With DXBC-SPIRV For Shader Compilation, Descriptor Heaps By Default

Phoronix - 2 hours 55 min ago
Philip Rebohle announced the release today of DXVK 3.0 as the latest major feature release for this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 implementation atop the Vulkan API for use by Wine and Valve's Steam Play (Proton)...

Academy Software Foundation Announces The "Wayland For Artists Working Group"

Phoronix - 5 hours 12 min ago
The Academy Software Foundation that advances open-source efforts for the VFX/cinema industry and more with the likes of OpenVDB, OpenMoonRay, Open Shading Language, and other projects, has announced the formation of a new working group to help with Wayland adoption for artists...

Updated Raspberry Pi OS With Linux 6.18 LTS Delivers Some Performance Benefits

Phoronix - 6 hours 54 min ago
Last week marked the release of an updated Raspberry Pi OS that moved to Linux 6.18 LTS from its former Linux 6.12 kernel base along with making a number of other package updates. Given the jump to the newer Long Term Support kernel and other improvements, I ran some fresh benchmarks on the Raspberry Pi 5 (Raspberry Pi 500+) to see the performance difference out of the updated operating system.

Servo 0.3 Released With The Demo Browser Becoming More Useful

Phoronix - Thu, 06/25/2026 - 23:40
Servo 0.3 released today as the latest version of this modern browser engine developed in Rust. With Servo 0.3 the demo servoshell browser is becoming more useful and supporting additional modern web features while Servo also continues to possess much potential moving forward on the embedded front as an alternative to the likes of the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF)...

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