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Fairphone 6 Announced With Same-Day Linux Support Patches

Phoronix - Wed, 06/25/2025 - 18:20
Dutch electronics company Fairphone today announced their Fairphone Gen 6 smartphone as the successor to the Fairphone 5. Fairphone 6 continues to be repair-friendly and was just announced this morning while already the Linux support patches have hit the Linux kernel mailing list...

Intel Open-Source Software Begins Adding Notices For Generative AI Use

Phoronix - Wed, 06/25/2025 - 18:05
Intel open-source software projects are beginning to relay notices that they may have been developed with support from Intel-operated generative AI solutions...

PNG Spec Updated For HDR Images & Animated PNGs

Phoronix - Wed, 06/25/2025 - 17:42
While WebP and AVIF generate much of the interest these days from a tech perspective for modern image formats, the PNG image format was just updated with new features...

Former Btrfs Lead Developer Chris Mason Announces New "rsched" Tool

Phoronix - Wed, 06/25/2025 - 08:27
Open-source Linux developer Chris Mason who is known for being the original lead developer of the Btrfs file-system recently began hacking on a new tool that he announced today, rsched...

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