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While most hardware vendors are relying on LLVM when it comes to offloading compute work to GPUs, AI accelerators, FPGAs, and similar heterogeneous compute environments, right now each vendor is basically creating their own LLVM offloading run-time among a lot of other duplicated -- and often downstream only -- code. The new "llvm/offload" project hopes to lead to better collaboration in this area...

LLVM Looking To Better Collaborate Around Common AI/GPU ...  Phoronix

Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra gets a performance boost on Linux ...  GamingOnLinux

Following an FCV optimization for the latest Intel graphics hardware, ASTC LDR emulation, some still-pending Vulkan sparse support for ANV atop the existing i915 driver, and other recent Intel open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver optimizations, another optimization was just merged into Mesa 23.3...

Proton update fixes Tekken 8 on Steam Deck & weird Cyberpunk ...  Dexerto

Mortisomem is a horror-adventure based in early 20th century Brazil  GamingOnLinux

Linux 6.6: la versione finale verrà rilasciata il 29 ottobre  HTML.it

Turbo Overkill is a brutal FPS well worth your time  GamingOnLinux

DoNot Team's New Firebird Backdoor Hits Pakistan and Afghanistan  The Hacker News

Diablo be damned, Last Epoch plans to release 1.0 in February, 2024  GamingOnLinux

The Etnaviv Gallium3D driver within Mesa has long been focused on reverse engineering and supporting Vivante graphics IP found in various SoCs. That driver has worked out well for open-source OpenGL support for Vivante graphics while more recently Etnaviv has begun tackling Vivante neural processing unit (NPU) support that is beginning to be found in various SoCs...

itch.io is hosting a Queer Halloween Stories Bundle 2023  GamingOnLinux

GE-Proton 8-21 released fixing up FSR issues  GamingOnLinux

After the Raspberry Pi 5 was excitingly announced a few weeks ago, Eben Upton shared today that ramping up the production has gone better than initially anticipated and that these AArch64 single board computers are beginning to ship to customers...

Raspberry Pi 5 Single Board Computers Begin Shipping  Phoronix

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 22nd, 2023  9to5Linux

ITPro Today's Linux Commands Cheat Sheet  ITPro Today

Numeric operations on Linux  Network World

qBittorrent 4.6 Released with Initial I2P Support, Torrent Tags Editing, and More  9to5Linux

35 Essential Linux Commands For Beginners  Gizchina.com