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Microsoft Announces Open-Source "Wassette" Using Rust + WebAssembly To Help AI Agents

Phoronix - Thu, 08/07/2025 - 04:44
Microsoft formally announced today its newest open-source project: Wassette. The Wassette is MIT-licensed and includes Linux and macOS support alongside Windows while being a Rust+WebAssembly-based project focused on securing AI agents...

Mesa 25.2 Released With Many Improvements For RADV, Intel & NVK Drivers

Phoronix - Thu, 08/07/2025 - 01:46
Mesa 25.2 is now available as the newest quarterly feature release for this set of open-source Linux graphics drivers predominantly for OpenGL, Vulkan, and video acceleration support on the Linux desktop...

Intel Xe Enabling SR-IOV PF By Default, Marking Driver As "Broken" For Non-4K Kernels

Phoronix - Wed, 08/06/2025 - 22:25
On top of all the Linux 6.17 kernel graphics driver feature changes that landed last week like promoting Panther Lake's Xe3 graphics to on-by-default, SR-IOV for Battlemage GPUs, multi-GPU preparations, Wildcat Lake enablement work, and more, some additional Intel Xe kernel graphics driver changes were submitted today for merging to Linux 6.17 in the coming days...

AlmaLinux Introduces Native NVIDIA Support Using Open-Source Kernel Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 08/06/2025 - 21:59
The AlmaLinux project announced today that there is now "native" NVIDIA graphics driver support for AlmaLinux 10 and AlmaLinux 9 using NVIDIA's open-source kernel modules that are now conveniently packaged in an AlmaLinux repository for easy usage complete with NVIDIA's closed-source user-space packages like CUDA...

Linux 6.17 Fixes A Performance Bottleneck In The Futex Code

Phoronix - Wed, 08/06/2025 - 20:50
Merged last week for Linux 6.17 were the FUTEX locking changes that include addressing an observed performance bottleneck...

Btrfs Sees Urgent Fix Following Recent Reports Of Log Tree Corruption

Phoronix - Wed, 08/06/2025 - 20:11
On Linux 6.15.3+ there have been increased reports of log tree corruption being hit by users of the Btrfs file-system. Fortunately, a fix has now been submitted for Linux 6.17 Git and then for back-porting to the recent stable kernel versions...

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