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Mozilla Announces "Thunderbolt" As An Open-Source, Enterprise AI Client

Phoronix - Thu, 04/16/2026 - 20:22
Mozilla today announced "Thunderbolt" as an open-source AI client built for control and independence. Mozilla Thunderbolt, while having the worst possible name, is built for organizations and others wanting to deploy self-hosted AI infrastructure...

Intel LASS In Good Shape For Linux 7.1

Phoronix - Thu, 04/16/2026 - 19:02
In addition to Linux 7.1 supporting FRED by default for Flexible Return and Event Delivery, another Intel CPU feature now in good shape for this next kernel version is Linear Address Space Separation (LASS)...

Linux Begins Removing Support For Russia's Baikal CPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 04/16/2026 - 18:25
Beyond Linux 7.1 beginning to phase out Intel 486 CPU support, this next Linux kernel version is also beginning to remove driver code for supporting Russia's Baikal CPUs...

Linux 7.1 Picks Up The MMC Changes After Rejected By Linus In Linux 7.0

Phoronix - Thu, 04/16/2026 - 18:12
Back during the Linux 7.0 merge window the MMC changes were rejected by Linus Torvalds as "complete garbage" that wasn't building properly and not vetted through linux-next. He went without pulling any MMC changes for the v7.0 cycle while now for Linux 7.1 the code has been better tested and successfully merged...

KDE Gear 26.04 Released With Numerous Improvements To KDE Apps

Phoronix - Thu, 04/16/2026 - 18:02
Following the recent KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop release, KDE Gear 26.04 is out today for shipping all the latest updated KDE desktop applications...

AMD Linux Graphics Driver Introducing "Power Module" To Better Match Windows Behavior

Phoronix - Thu, 04/16/2026 - 08:48
With the set of today's AMDGPU kernel graphics driver Display Core (DC) patches is a rather curious addition with wiring up the Linux code to a "power module" that looks like it will better match Microsoft Windows behavior with the AMD Radeon driver around display-related power savings features...

Linux 7.1 Delivers Performance Regression Fix For Sheaves

Phoronix - Thu, 04/16/2026 - 08:28
The Linux 7.1 kernel is bringing performance improvements for Sheaves, the per-CPU caching layer introduced several kernel cycles ago (Linux 6.18) for better efficiency on today's high core count hardware. Sheaves began as an opt-in feature but since Linux 7.0 is now being used for all caches...

SDL Adds Policy To Forbid LLM/AI Generated Code Contributions

Phoronix - Thu, 04/16/2026 - 05:24
The SDL library widely used by cross-platform games and part of the Steam Runtime has now established a policy to block code contributions made using AI / Large Language Models (LLMs)...

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