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AMD's Lemonade SDK For Local AI Adds NVIDIA CUDA Support  Phoronix

MacOS 27 beta boots Asahi Linux off Apple Silicon  The Register

Fwupd 2.1.5 Linux Firmware Updater Released with Support for Elan Touchscreens  9to5Linux

Intel Arc Pro B70 Showing Off Some Performance Wins With Linux 7.1  Phoronix

Intel Arc Pro B70 Showing Off Some Performance Wins With Linux 7.1  Phoronix

Intel Arc Pro B70 Showing Off Some Performance Wins With Linux 7.1  Phoronix

After recently noticing the Intel Arc B580 performing better on Linux 7.1 for that kernel version soon to be released as stable, I was curious if there were performance gains also to be found with the new flagship Arc Pro B70 BMG-G31 workstation graphics card. Here are some benchmarks of the Intel Arc Pro B70 in relevant workloads between Linux 7.0 and the near-final Linux 7.1 kernel.

The Linux Foundation continues working to get more involved in new AI initiatives. Today the Linux Foundation announced the OpenSharing Project with an effort to standardize AI asset and data exchange...

Linux Foundation's Latest AI Effort Is Around AI Asset & Data Exchange  Phoronix

Copilot is good for one thing at least: helping to keep old GPUs alive and kicking  PC Gamer

Linux Lite 8.0 sheds Chrome, slims down, and finds its name fits better than ever  The Register

You may hate the idea of AI coding, but it could keep your old AMD GPU alive if you run Linux  TweakTown

Linux Foundation Announces OpenSharing Project to Standardize AI Asset and Data Exchange  Fidelity

Linux Foundation Announces OpenSharing Project to Standardize AI Asset and Data Exchange  PR Newswire

NVIDIA engineer Kyrylo Tkachov posted a patch for testing yesterday to significantly reduce the amount of time it takes the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for conducting a native bootstrap. The time spent in the configure process for native GCC builds is reduced by around 43% while the overall bootstrap wall time is lowered by around 15%...

AM62x PRU Academy goes live for BeaglePlay and PocketBeagle 2  LinuxGizmos.com

The cros_ec Linux kernel driver is used for supporting the ChromeOS Embedded Controller "EC" used by Chromebooks and various other laptops like Framework Laptops. With patches pending to cros_ec, support for custom fan curves is being introduced...

Linux's CrOS EC Driver To Support Custom Fan Curves - Useful For Framework Laptops  Phoronix

DataStrike Expands Linux Managed Services Practice as Demand for Secure Open-Source Infrastructure Accelerates  PR Newswire

Good News For Linux Terminal Junkies! Proton Drive Now Has a CLI  It's FOSS