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RISC-V processor IP purveyor SiFive just announced they have raised $400 million USD in an over-subscribed Series G financing round. This latest funding is so they can further focus on delivering high performance RISC-V designs for the data center...

SiFive Raises $400M To Double Down On High Performance RISC-V For Data Centers  Phoronix

In addition to RISC-V discontinuing its eXecute In Place "XIP" kernel support for Linux 7.1, there is an optimized strnlen() function coming for Linux 7.1 on RISC-V as well as some other optimized functions...

RISC-V Optimized strnlen Implementation For Linux 7.1 Yields Big Speed-Up  Phoronix

Natalie Vock of Valve's Linux graphics driver team primarily working on the RADV Vulkan driver has come up with a new interesting creation: patches to the Linux kernel and KDE for sharply improving the gaming experience for those running systems with limited amounts of video memory. Such as for graphics cards with just 8GB of dedicated vRAM, the patches now available -- initially on CachyOS for a nice out-of-the-box experience -- provide a noticeably better Linux gaming experience...

Valve Developer Improves The Linux Gaming Experience For Limited vRAM Hardware  Phoronix

Solus Says It Has No Plans to Implement Age Verification  Linuxiac

My top 5 Linux desktops of 2026 (so far) - and I've tried them all  ZDNET

Beyond the capabilities of just the Vulkan Video API, the FFmpeg multimedia library has made interesting Vulkan-accelerated adaptations using compute shaders. With Vulkan compute they've implemented Apple ProRes video acceleration, FFV1 decode, and other features. The newest Vulkan feature now in place for FFmpeg is 360 degree video conversion...

Rethinking Linux security operations | perspective | SC Media  SC Media

Hackers Impersonate Linux Foundation Leader in Slack to Target Open Source Developers  CyberSecurityNews

Tails 7.6.1 drops as an emergency release to fix Tor Browser vulnerabilities  Notebookcheck

The open-source Lemonade local AI server that enables using Ryzen AI NPUs on Linux for LLM usage as well as AMD Radeon GPU support and common x86_64 CPU support (in addition to Microsoft Windows support) is now becoming easier to embed within other apps for AI usage...

AMD Making It Easier To Embed Lemonade AI Capabilities Into Other Apps  Phoronix

The newest Vulkan API extension now wired up for Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is VK_EXT_primitive_restart_index that was introduced last week...

RADV Lands Support For Vulkan's New Primitive Restart Index Extension  Phoronix

European firm releases free Linux tool to stop foreign apps from calling home  Cybernews

Miracle-WM as the Wayland compositor / window manager built atop Canonical's Mir project is out with a big new feature release. This "hackable" and i3/Sway-inspired Wayland compositor has landed a WebAssembly-based plug-in system for opening up new possibilities as well as a new Rust API with this week's v0.9 release...

PipeWire 1.6.3 Improves RAOP Compatibility to Make It Work on More Devices  9to5Linux

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Raises Requirements – Linux is Now Formally “Heavier” Windows 11  GameGPU