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One Line Fix Coming For Achieving Better Linux Performance On The HP OMEN 8E41 Laptop

Phoronix - Wed, 02/04/2026 - 19:08
A one-line patch to the HP WMI x86 platform driver for Linux was posted for allowing the HP OMEN Transcend Gaming Laptop 14-fb1xxx to correctly hit its rated TDP limit for allowing better performance outside of the Microsoft Windows confines...

libinput 1.31 Bringing Support For Fast Three-Finger Swipes

Phoronix - Wed, 02/04/2026 - 18:53
Linux input expert Peter Hutterer of Red Hat announced today the first release candidate of libinput 1.31, the input handling library used by both modern X.Org Server and Wayland desktop environments...

AMD Expands FPGA Offerings With Mid-Range Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2

Phoronix - Wed, 02/04/2026 - 18:36
AMD announced today an expansion of their FPGA prodict line-up with the Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 for "intelligent, high performance systems" for medical, industrial, and other fields...

Leveraging urunc For Efficiently Running BSD Applications In Linux Environments

Phoronix - Wed, 02/04/2026 - 09:21
While there is the Linuxulator as a kernel-level solution on FreeBSD for running unmodified Linux binaries that can even work for gaming on FreeBSD, running BSD applications on Linux isn't talked about as much. But developers have found that for those wanting to run BSD applications in Linux environments, the urunc lightweight container runtime can work out rather well for efficiently handling BSD apps on Linux...

What’s new in post-quantum cryptography in RHEL 10.1

Red Hat News - Wed, 02/04/2026 - 08:00
In May 2025, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL) shipped with the first steps toward post-quantum cryptography (PQC) to protect against attacks by quantum computers, which will make attacks on existing classic cryptographic algorithms such as RSA and elliptic curves feasible. Cryptographically relevant quantum computers (CRQC) are still not known to exist, but that does not mean the risk is zero. For example, "harvest now, decrypt later" attacks do not need a quantum computer now, one only needs to become available before the stored encrypted data loses its value, and depending on the transferr

NVIDIA DLSS For Blender Under Review But Licensing Concerns Persist

Phoronix - Wed, 02/04/2026 - 05:08
A few months ago at SIGGRAPH was a demo of Blender with NVIDIA Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) integration. The pull request is now open for landing NVIDIA DLSS support into Blender for better quality upscaling/denoising and performance but concerns persist over the licensing due to NVIDIA DLSS binaries...

Dank Fedora MiracleWM & Other Fedora 44 Changes Approved

Phoronix - Wed, 02/04/2026 - 04:15
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee "FESCo" has signed off on the latest batch of Fedora 44 change proposals as they work toward nearing the end of feature work for this spring update to Fedora Linux. Plus some early changes for Fedora 45 have also been granted...

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