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Intel Appears To Have Quietly Sunset "On Demand" Software Defined Silicon  Phoronix

Back in 2021 on Phoronix was first to report on Intel preparing Linux patches for a "Software Defined Silicon" feature for activating extra licensed hardware features. That Software Defined Silicon support continued moving forward and was then announced as Intel On Demand with a focus on users being able to pay to activate additional accelerators found on select SKUs but not enabled by default...

Building off Friday's release of Wine 11.2 is now Wine-Staging 11.2 as this experimental/testing version of Wine with hundreds of extra patches that have yet to be introduced in upstream proper for this open-source software enabling Windows games and applications on Linux. Notable in this bi-weekly update are more patches for continuing to improve the Adobe Photoshop installer support on Linux...

Wine-Staging 11.2 Brings More Patches To Help Adobe Photoshop On Linux  Phoronix

Of Intel's different CPU accelerator IPs, the arguably most useful and with the greatest customer interest remains around QuickAssist Technology (QAT). Intel QAT allows offloading various compression and encryption tasks for better performance. Intel this week released QATlib 26.02 as the newest version of their user-space library for leveraging QuickAssist Technology on capable hardware...

Back in 2022 DreamWorks Animation announced they were open-sourcing their MoonRay renderer and was then published in early 2023 for this renderer that has been used in a variety of featured animated films. Since then they have continued advancing this MoonRay code via the open-source OpenMoonRay project and this week published their newest feature update...

The Linux lsusb command has 5 secret uses you should know  How-To Geek

With QEMU 10.2 that released at the end of last year is the new "MSHV" accelerator for allowing VMs to be created from a Microsoft Hyper-V guest without using nested virtualization. Last weekend at FOSDEM 2026 was a presentation on this MSHV accelerator for those interested...

Microsoft On QEMU 10.2's New MSHV Accelerator For Hyper-V Guests  Phoronix

Claude Opus 4.6 has delivered a striking proof point for autonomous software development, with agent teams building a Linux compatible C compiler from scratch in just two weeks using AI driven workflows. The project reportedly consumed $20,000 in API tok  LinkedIn

DKnife toolkit abuses routers to spy and deliver malware since 2019  Security Affairs

Intel Arc B390 Beats Radeon 890M In Linux Benchmarks  eTeknix

Breaking Linux on Purpose: The Art of System Recovery Without Reaching for the Reinstall Button  WebProNews

January brought major updates to these 6 Linux distros  How-To Geek

With the Linux 6.19 stable kernel expected to be released tomorrow (8 February), here is a reminder about the top features to expect from this next version of the Linux kernel...

4 reasons I stopped using Ubuntu and don't miss it  MakeUseOf

GOG is already working on native Linux support  theverge.com

New Proposal Explores Machine Learning Assistance for Linux Kernel Behavior  Linuxiac

I went back to Linux and it was a mistake  theverge.com

5 open-source apps I install immediately after installing Linux  MakeUseOf