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In recent weeks we have been exploring different areas of the Intel Arc Pro B70 graphics performance on Linux from various OpenCL and Vulkan to Level Zero compute benchmarks, scaling up to four Arc Pro B70 graphics cards, comparing to NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell, and other relevant tests. While not intended for gaming, many Phoronix readers keep raising requests for seeing the Arc Pro B70 performance for Linux gaming given the lack of any consumer BMG-G31 GPU. So for those curious, here is a look at the Linux gaming performance with the Arc Pro B70 graphics card.

Intel Arc Pro B70 BMG-G31 Linux Gaming Performance  Phoronix

MontaVista Expands MVShield to Support Ubuntu LTS Platforms Beyond Standard Maintenance  The National Law Review

Arm Announces Metis: Agentic AI Security Framework  Phoronix

Arm today announced the open-sourcing of Metis, an agentic AI security framework that delivers context AI-powered security analysis in looking out for software vulnerabilities...

Linux Fu: Fake Webcams Have Many Uses  Hackaday

FOSS Weekly #26.22: Win for Linux, Firefox New AI Feature, AMD Betrayal, Rust Linux Commands and More  It's FOSS

QEMU Shifting On AI Policy To Allow Some AI/LLM-Generated Contributions  Phoronix

The QEMU processor emulator that plays an important role in the open-source Linux virtualization stack had a policy that forbid any contributions including or derived from AI-generated content. But there are now second thoughts with a proposed patch that will permit AI/LLM contributions in non-critical areas...

For competing with the Apple MacBook Neo, Google Chromebooks, and other entry-level laptops, Qualcomm today announced the Snapdragon C series SoCs...

Ahead of Computex, Intel today announced the introduction of the Arc G-Series. While taking on the "Arc" branding, this isn't a new graphics card from Intel but rather their new processors with integrated graphics for handheld gaming devices...

Building off the KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta release earlier in May, a second beta was declared today in preparing for the Plasma 6.7 stable debut in mid-June...

AI agents get their own phone directory built atop DNS  The Register

Linux Foundation Launches DNS-AID Protocol to Revolutionize AI Agent Connectivity  streamlinefeed.co.ke

Stylish 2.5D action brawler Skroyder Rumble brings a weird Brazilian-inspired cartoon world  GamingOnLinux

Anthropic’s Mythos AI Finds Decades-Old Open-Source Bugs  LinuxInsider

While there has been talk of potentially branching off the older Mesa graphics drivers, the ATI R300 Gallium3D driver just won't die yet. The R300 Gallium3D driver for supporting ATI R300 through R500 graphics cards saw a big rework merged today in restructuring the driver's intemediate representation (IR) handling...

ThinkPad T14 Gen 7: These features work with Linux - and these do not  Notebookcheck

OviOS Linux 6 makes the switch from SysV to systemd  Notebookcheck

KRAID is a new Rust-written shader compiler currently being developed for the Panfrost/PanVK open-source Arm Mali driver code. KRAID is designed for Mali's Valhall graphics processors and new as a modern, clean sheet design...