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Mesa PanVK Driver Seeing Up To 25.7x Speedup For MSAA

Phoronix - 3 hours 45 sec ago
The open-source PanVK driver providing Vulkan support for modern Arm Mali graphics hardware is seeing big speed-ups in the multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) performance in Vulkan tests as a result of new code merged today to Mesa 26.1...

Linus Torvalds Drops Old Linux Kconfig Option To Address Tiresome Kernel Log Spam

Phoronix - 7 hours 8 sec ago
Following yesterday's Linux 7.0-rc1 release, Linus Torvalds authored and merged a patch to get rid of the Linux kernel's WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM Kconfig option. While that option was added with good intentions, on some systems it can yield a lot of unnecessary kernel log spam...

Qualcomm Posts Patches For New DSP Accelerator Linux Driver

Phoronix - 8 hours 16 min ago
The newest driver proposed for the Linux kernel's accelerator "accel" subsystem is named QDA and is a Qualcomm DSP Accelerator driver...

Intel Releases OpenVINO 2026 With Improved NPU Handling, Expanded LLM Support

Phoronix - 9 hours 56 min ago
Intel's open-source OpenVINO AI toolkit is out with its first major release of 2026. With today's OpenVINO 2026.0 release there is expanded large language model (LLM) support, improved Intel NPU support for Core Ultra systems, and a variety of other enhancements for benefiting Intel's CPU / NPU / GPU range of products for AI...

Firefox 148 Now Available With The New AI Controls / AI Kill Switches

Phoronix - 11 hours 36 min ago
Firefox 148 release binaries are now available ahead of the official release announcement on Tuesday. Most notable is the new AI controls found with Firefox 148 for those wishing to disable Firefox's growing AI capabilities...

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