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AMD's HIP Moves To Using LLVM's New Offload Driver By Default

Phoronix - Tue, 02/24/2026 - 21:09
A change merged to upstream LLVM Git yesterday for LLVM 23 is moving AMD's HIP to using the new/modern offload driver by default. This aligns with a prior change for NVIDIA CUDA and already in place for OpenMP offloading too...

Intel Formally Ends Four Of Their Go Language Open-Source Projects

Phoronix - Tue, 02/24/2026 - 19:28
Following various Intel open-source projects recently being archived with Intel formally discontinuing their development, another wave of Intel open-source projects were formally sunset on Monday...

LLVM/Clang 22 Compiler Officially Released With Many Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 02/24/2026 - 19:13
LLVM/Clang 22.1 was released overnight as the first stable release of the LLVM 22 series. This is a nice, feature-packaged half-year update to this prominent open-source compiler stack with many great refinements...

KDE Plasma 6.6.1 Released With Initial Batch Of Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Tue, 02/24/2026 - 19:02
Following last week's Plasma 6.6 release, KDE developers today shipped Plasma 6.6.1 as the first point release with an assortment of different bug fixes...

CGIT 1.3 Web Frontend For Git Released After Six Years

Phoronix - Tue, 02/24/2026 - 18:55
Jason Donenfeld of WireGuard and Linux cryptography fame has taken a break from that to release a new version of CGIT, the lightweight web interface for Git repositories. CGIT 1.3 is the first new release in six years and comes with a lot of changes...

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