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Firefox 149 Beta Released With Convenient Split-View Mode

Phoronix - Thu, 02/26/2026 - 09:17
Following the Firefox 148 release with the new AI controls, Mozilla promoted Firefox 149 to beta today...

b4's Review TUI With AI Integration Nearing Pre-Alpha Release

Phoronix - Thu, 02/26/2026 - 08:41
The b4 tool used for managing patch workflows to the Linux kernel has been seeing a lot of work recently on b4 review as the text user interface (TUI) to help expedite the patch review process for the Linux kernel. The b4 review TUI has been integrating AI agent code review helpers powered by the likes of Claude Code too for trying to help enhance the efficiency for Linux kernel patch reviews. That b4 review work is quickly approaching a pre-alpha state...

Linux 6.18 LTS / 6.12 LTS / 6.6 LTS Support Periods Extended

Phoronix - Thu, 02/26/2026 - 04:19
Greg Kroah-Hartman today extended the planned maintenance periods of the latest Linux 6.18, Linux 6.12, and Linux 6.6 Long Term Support (LTS) kernel series...

LLVM Clang 22 Compiler Performance Largely Unchanged Over Clang 21 On AMD Zen 5

Phoronix - Thu, 02/26/2026 - 04:05
With yesterday's stable release of the LLVM Clang 22 compiler it didn't take long for Phoronix readers to begin asking about the performance of this half-year feature update to this prominent open-source C/C++ compiler. What I am seeing so far are no big surprises with the performance largely being similar to Clang 21 across various open-source C/C++ workloads in the testing thus far. This initial round of reference benchmark results between LLVM Clang 22, Clang 21, and Clang 20 were done on an AMD EPYC Turin (Zen 5) Linux server.

Mesa 26.0.1 Released With Important Security Fix For OOB Memory Access From WebGPU

Phoronix - Thu, 02/26/2026 - 00:56
Mesa 26.0.1 is now available as the first point release of this quarter's Mesa 26.0 series. Besides the usual bug fixing, Mesa 26.0.1 is more pressing than usual since it contains a security fix for possible out-of-bounds memory access in WebGPU contexts from web browsers...

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