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Chrome 85 Beta Brings WebHID API For Better Gamepad Support, AVIF Image Decode

Phoronix - Fri, 07/24/2020 - 03:27
Following the recent Chrome 84 stable release, Google has now promoted Chrome 85 to beta as their latest feature update to this cross-platform web browser...

FGKASLR Revved For Improving Linux Kernel Security

Phoronix - Fri, 07/24/2020 - 01:34
Intel open-source developer Kristen Carlson Accardi continues work on Function Granular Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization (FGKASLR) as a big improvement over traditional KASLR address space layout randomization...

Unity 2020.1 Released With Many Fixes For Vulkan & Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 07/23/2020 - 21:58
Unity 2020.1 is out today as the latest feature release for this popular, cross-platform game engine...

V3DV Vulkan Driver Now Running vkQuake On The Raspberry Pi

Phoronix - Thu, 07/23/2020 - 21:18
It was just at the start of July that the Raspberry Pi 4 "V3DV" Vulkan driver started running more sample code while now it reached the milestone of being able to run vkQuake -- the Vulkan ports for the classic Quake games...

AMDVLK 2020.Q3.2 Radeon Vulkan Driver Christened Early Due To Bugs

Phoronix - Thu, 07/23/2020 - 18:55
While it was just two days ago that AMDVLK 2020.Q3.1 debuted and normally there is a two to three week release cadence for these open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver code drops, this morning was already met by the debut of AMDVLK 2020.Q3.2...

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