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Developer successfully ports Linux to 1994 Sega 32X — Genesis and MegaDrive expansion runs open-source OS on paltry 23MHz processors and 256KB of RAM  Tom's Hardware

I removed GNOME and my laptop battery lasted 40 minutes longer — this is what I replaced it with  MakeUseOf

The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Project, which has received more than $750k USD in funding to improve the experience of FreeBSD on laptops, is out with its newest monthly progress report. A lot continues to happen for improving the FreeBSD laptop story, which in many aspects also benefits FreeBSD on the desktop too...

FreeBSD Laptop Support Continues Improving With WiFi, GPU & Audio Driver Work  Phoronix

Linux Foundation Adopts Open Source StratoWeave From Deutsche Telekom  Open Source For You

KosmicKrisp as the Vulkan API driver built atop Apple's Metal API in Mesa for macOS and iOS systems is now advertising Vulkan 1.4 compatibility...

DLSS Updater 4.3.0 Expands Beyond DLSS On Linux  Open Source For You

OpenMandriva's accused repo wrecker says it wasn't sabotage – it was a message  The Register

CIQ Open Sources Galaxy Proxy Alongside Linux Automation Upgrades  Open Source For You

Linux Foundation Operationalises x402 Foundation For Automated Machine Payments  Open Source For You

Ripple, Visa, Mastercard Join Linux Foundation’s x402 to Build Payment Rails for AI Agents  finance.biggo.com

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Coinbase-born x402 Transfers to Linux Foundation, 40 Organizations to Develop Common Specification for AI Payments  XenoSpectrum

Ripple Joins Linux Foundation’s x402 Foundation  bloomingbit

Reverse-engineering brings RK3576 NPU support to open-source Rocket driver for mainline Linux  CNX Software

China's AI labs are exporting innovation back to Silicon Valley, claims Linux Foundation CTO  digitimes

Back in May OpenCL 3.1 was announced with a focus on AI and HPC workloads. Just over two months later, this incremental update over OpenCL 3.0 now has its first listed conformant OpenCL 3.1 implementation for passing the OpenCL 3.1 conformance test suite cases. It's Apple Silicon M1/M2 graphics running on Asahi Linux with the Mesa Rusticl driver...

Khronos Lists First Conformant OpenCL 3.1 Implementation: Apple M1/M2 On Asahi Linux With Rusticl  Phoronix

While many organizations have recently adopted a cloud-first strategy, a significant number of those have since pivoted to operating in an open hybrid cloud environment. For insurance organizations, adopting a hybrid cloud strategy was largely because moving all operational data to the public cloud environments was impossible due to strict regulatory requirements and legal data privacy concerns.Insurers hold a vast amount of proprietary, personally identifiable data. In addition to basic financial data, insurers need to have sensitive information about policyholders so they can accurately ass

Red Hat AI 3.4 is officially available. While it is packed with incredible engineering milestones, business leaders care less about the underlying code and more about one critical question: How does this platform help scale the business?For organizations currently struggling to push AI past the proof-of-concept (PoC) stage and into fully operational, revenue-driving production environments, this update addresses those exact challenges. A recently commissioned Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study highlighted that Red Hat AI delivered an impressive 233% ROI by drastically dr