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DreamWorks' Open-Source MoonRay Renderer Now Part Of The Academy Software Foundation

Phoronix - Sat, 05/23/2026 - 18:05
Back in 2022 it was announced DreamWorks Animation was open-sourcing their MoonRay renderer that has been used in production feature films. It ended up being published as open-source in March 2023 as OpenMoonRay and since then has continued advancing with new feature releases and improvements. Now it's being contributed to the Academy Software Foundation as the newest project...

FreeBSD 15.1-RC1 Released: Fixes With Now Seeing More AI-Discovered Security Issues

Phoronix - Sat, 05/23/2026 - 08:52
In addition to the recent influx of Linux security vulnerabilities affecting Linux, FreeBSD has also begun receiving security reports via AI/LLM-driven discovery tools. FreeBSD 15.1-RC1 is out today ahead of the planned official release in June and it brings a handful of security fixes out of this new AI-driven security research space...

GNOME Commander 2.0 Released Following Rewrite In Rust & GTK4

Phoronix - Sat, 05/23/2026 - 08:24
GNOME Commander, the orthodox file manager for the GNOME desktop that was inspired by Norton Commander, has been rewritten in the Rust programming language and also now using the GTK4 toolkit...

Linux 7.1 Merges AMD Dynamic EPP Fixes, Intel Bartlett Lake Scaling Fix

Phoronix - Sat, 05/23/2026 - 02:50
Merged today for Linux 7.1 was this week's power management fixes with a few notable fixes for both AMD and Intel platforms...

OpenCL 3.1.1 Released To Address A Possible Performance Regression

Phoronix - Sat, 05/23/2026 - 00:29
Released earlier this month was the OpenCL 3.1 specification with a focus on enhancing AI and HPC workloads for this long-time Khronos specification. Out today is OpenCL 3.1.1 as a point release with an emphasis on addressing a possible performance regression of OpenCL 3.1...

systemd 261-rc1 Released With OS Installer, IMDS Subsystem & New storagectl

Phoronix - Fri, 05/22/2026 - 22:27
The first release candidate of systemd 261 is out today and it includes yet more features for this Linux init system and service manager...

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