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Notable Intel & AMD CPU Changes Merged For Linux 7.0-rc3

Phoronix - Sun, 03/08/2026 - 19:38
This week's batch of "x86/urgent" patches that were merged overnight for Linux 7.0 contain some fixes and other adjustments worth highlighting for both AMD and Intel...

LLM-Driven Large Code Rewrites With Relicensing Are The Latest AI Concern

Phoronix - Sun, 03/08/2026 - 19:29
The newest open-source concern around AI that is seeing a lot of interest this weekend is when large language models / AI code generators may rewrite large parts of a codebase and then the "developers" claiming an alternative license incompatible with the original source license. This became a real concern this week with a popular Python project experiencing an AI-driven code rewrite and now published under an alternative license that its original author does not agree with and incompatible with the original code...

digiKam 9.0 Leading Open-Source Digital Photo Manager Software Released

Phoronix - Sun, 03/08/2026 - 19:05
The KDE/Qt-aligned digiKam software for managing RAW digital photos is out today with the big digiKam 9.0 release...

Linux 7.0 Fixes Battery Reporting For The Apple Magic Trackpad 2

Phoronix - Sun, 03/08/2026 - 18:58
Merged back in 2018 for Linux 5.0 was support for the Apple Magic Trackpad 2. Merged this week for the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel is fixing battery reporting for those using the Magic Trackpad 2 under Linux...

Linux 7.0 Adds A New Minor Performance Optimization Shown With AMD Zen 2 CPUs

Phoronix - Sun, 03/08/2026 - 09:23
The Linux event poll "epoll" code for efficient I/O multiplexing and monitoring of file descriptors for seeing when I/O is possible has a new optimization merged today for Linux 7.0...

Budgie 10.10.2 Brings Improved Labwc Wayland Compositor Integration

Phoronix - Sun, 03/08/2026 - 01:46
Out today is Budgie 10.10.2 as the latest minor update to this open-source desktop environment that began as part of the Solus Linux project...

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