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The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has Expired

Phoronix - Sun, 07/19/2026 - 22:24
If you are looking for a reason to celebrate today, the last of the MPEG-4 Part 2 patents expired today...

FFmpeg Lands Latest AVX-512 Optimization: 1.372x Faster In Pixel Format Conversion

Phoronix - Sun, 07/19/2026 - 19:00
The latest hand-tuned code in the FFmpeg multimedia library for allowing better performance on today's modern Intel/AMD AVX-512-capable processors is showing 1.372x faster performance for RGB24 to RGBA pixel format conversions...

Legion Y700 Gen4 Tablet Powered By Snapdragon 8 Elite Seeing Linux Patches

Phoronix - Sun, 07/19/2026 - 18:29
The Legion Y700 Gen4 is an Android tablet that debuted last year and powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset. This 8.8-inch tablet is now seeing patches for enabling Linux support outside the confines of Android and will hopefully end up in the mainline kernel...

More ASUS Motherboards To Enjoy Working Sensor Monitoring With Linux 7.3

Phoronix - Sun, 07/19/2026 - 18:17
Thanks to the work of the open-source community, more ASUS desktop motherboards for Intel Core and AMD Ryzen systems are seeing working sensor monitoring under Linux. With the upcoming Linux 7.3 cycle, several additional ASUS motherboards will now enjoy working sensor monitoring...

GNU Hurd Makes Progress On AArch64, Writing Translators In Rust

Phoronix - Sun, 07/19/2026 - 08:53
The GNU Hurd project recently issued their Q2'2026 status report to outline recently development efforts. The Hurd is still happening!..

NVK Vulkan Performance Improving With Mesa 26.2 Against NVIDIA Proprietary Driver

Phoronix - Sun, 07/19/2026 - 03:57
The performance of the Nouveau kernel driver with the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver continues to improve each feature release in its quest toward better competing with NVIDIA's official Linux graphics driver with its proprietary Vulkan driver...

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