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Linux 6.18 Power Management Brings Panther Lake Power Slider & New Drivers

Phoronix - Tue, 09/30/2025 - 01:00
Linux ACPI and power management maintainer Rafael Wysocki today sent out all of the feature updates and changes intended for the now-started Linux 6.18 merge window. There are some new Intel additions as well as for the growing range of different ARM-based SoCs and other hardware...

NVIDIA, Disney & Google Contribute Open-Source Newton Engine To The Linux Foundation

Phoronix - Mon, 09/29/2025 - 23:25
Earlier this year NVIDIA announced Newton as an open-source physics engine focused on robotic simulations. This physics engine was developed by NVIDIA in cooperation with Google DeepMind and Disney Research. Today it's been contributed to the Linux Foundation...

Intel Releases New LLM Scaler Betas For GenAI On Battlemage GPUs

Phoronix - Mon, 09/29/2025 - 22:58
Back in August Intel released LLM-Scaler 1.0 as part of Project Battlematrix for help getting generative AI "GenAI" workloads running on Arc (Pro) B-Series graphics cards. Out today are two new LLM Scaler beta releases for further enhancing the AI capabilities on Intel Battlemage GPUs...

Blender 5.0 Vulkan Render Tests Passing On AMD & NVIDIA But Failing For Intel

Phoronix - Mon, 09/29/2025 - 21:06
Blender 5.0 is working its way toward an official release in mid-November and is soon transitioning from its alpha to beta stage. Among the key changes with Blender 5.0 are its Vulkan renderer being in good shape overall, HDR support when using Vulkan and Wayland on Linux, and other enhancements. Today some brief details were shared around the current state of the Vulkan support for Blender 5.0...

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