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Apple M3 Booting On Linux After Three Years Plus Other SoC Updates In Linux 7.2

Phoronix - Fri, 06/19/2026 - 19:09
Just shy of 1,000 new patches were merged on the SoC side for the Linux 7.2 kernel. Among all those patches are enabling five more SoCs to work with the mainline Linux kernel -- including the long-awaited Apple M3 support...

AMD Introduces An AI-Powered Bash Coding Agent

Phoronix - Fri, 06/19/2026 - 18:31
Just days after AMD engineers released a new Lemonade AI server with MCP server integration to make it much more useful, they have now released a new release of their GAIA "Generative AI Is Awesome" open-source software. With AMD GAIA 0.21.2, they have introduced a bash coding agent is their latest big ticket item in the AI space...

Intel TDX Now Much More Practical With Ability To Apply Important Updates Without Reboot

Phoronix - Fri, 06/19/2026 - 18:18
For those interested in Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) with modern Intel Xeon processors for confidential computing but also view system uptime as critical, beginning in Linux 7.2 the TDX support is now much more practical with allowing live updates without the need to reboot the running system in the event of security updates and similar...

ARCTIC Fan Controller, More ASUS & ASRock Boards Have Sensor Monitoring With Linux 7.2

Phoronix - Fri, 06/19/2026 - 18:08
For those that enjoy keeping an eye on all their system vitals from temperatures to voltages, the hardware monitoring "HWMON" updates have seen many device additions for Linux 7.2...

AMD ISP4 Driver Merged To Linux 7.2 Kernel

Phoronix - Fri, 06/19/2026 - 09:00
The media subsystem changes were merged tonight for the Linux 7.2 merge window and it includes the long-awaited AMD ISP4 driver now in the mainline kernel.. This ISP4 driver is what completes the loop for enabling the web camera on the HP ZBook Ultra G1a and other future high-end AMD Ryzen laptops...

Linux 7.2 Gets Rid Of The Last Optimized MD5 Implementation

Phoronix - Fri, 06/19/2026 - 08:47
The Linux kernel has dropped the last of its architecture-specific optimized MD5 hashing algorithm implementations...

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