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GNOME Mutter 50.rc Released With Better NVIDIA Performance, SDR-Native & Better HDR

Phoronix - 18 hours 46 min ago
There is two weeks to go until the GNOME 50 stable release while out today is the release candidate of Mutter 50. This Mutter 50.rc release brings some exciting last-minute enhancements to this Wayland compositor...

Sovereign Tech Fellowship Opens Up To Community Managers, Technical Writers

Phoronix - Tue, 03/03/2026 - 23:36
Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency announced a new and expanded Sovereign Tech Fellowship program that is now open to community managers and technical writers, beyond just FOSS maintainers from the prior round...

Apple Announces "Fusion Architecture" With M5 Pro & M5 Max

Phoronix - Tue, 03/03/2026 - 23:19
Apple announced today the new Fusion Architecture with the M5 Pro and M5 Max SoCs that also feature a next-generation GPU...

Intel Adapting Linux's LAM In Preparing For ChkTag

Phoronix - Tue, 03/03/2026 - 21:54
Last year AMD and Intel as part of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group announced ChkTag for x86 memory tagging across processors to better fight buffer overflows and use-after-free errors. In preparing for ChkTag with future processors, Intel has begun adapting their Linear Address Masking (LAM) support to more nicely jive with it...

Intel Preps A Lot Of Xe3 Code For Linux 7.1 Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 03/03/2026 - 21:12
Intel yesterday sent out their first "drm-xe-next" pull request to DRM-Next of new Xe kernel graphics driver improvements they have readied for their eventual upstreaming into the Linux 7.1 kernel...

AMD Makes rocprof-trace-decoder Open-Source

Phoronix - Tue, 03/03/2026 - 19:13
AMD open-sourced the ROCprof Trace Decoder "rocprof-trace-decoder", a tool useful for developers targeting the AMD GPU compute stack...

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