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Basemark last week released GPUScore: Breaking Limit as a "groundbreaking cross-platform ray-tracing benchmark" that is scalable from mobile to desktops. They self-describe Breaking Limit as "the world's first true cross-platform benchmark for ray tracing." Given that and the benchmark meeting my benchmarking criteria, I've been trying it out on various AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards under Linux.

AMD's GPUOpen group this morning released the FidelityFX SDK 1.1 version that incorporates FidelityFX Super Resolution 3.1 (FSR 3.1) as the newet version of their game upscaling tech. Plus it introduces new components in the for of the Breadcrumbs Library and Brixelizer...

Merged for Mesa 24.2 is a massive set of patches providing a new platform abstraction for NVK, the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver. With this new platform abstraction it begins to open the door toward running the NVK driver on alternative kernel (DRM) drivers...

Google Just Extended Linux Kernel Support for Android: This is Good!  It's FOSS News

Eldorado ransomware campaign found targeting Windows and Linux systems alike  TechRadar

Check Rockchip NPU Usage on Linux  It's FOSS

Clonezilla Live 3.1.3 Disk Cloning Tool Is Here Powered by Linux Kernel 6.9  9to5Linux

Intel Pushes Out New Linux Patches For Lunar Lake & Arrow Lake, Focusing On Next-Gen Performance Monitoring ...  Wccftech

Intel Pushes Out New Linux Patches For Lunar Lake & Arrow Lake, Focusing On Next-Gen Performance Monitoring Capabilities  Wccftech

Box64 v0.3 is now available as the newest feature release to this user-space x86_64 emulator for Linux binaries on AArch64 (ARM64) hosts. Box64 is one of several promising projects in this area for being able to run x86_64 games and applications under ARM64 with great speed...

Box64 v0.3 Brings Support For Emulating x86_64 Binaries With AVX/AVX2 On ARM  Phoronix

Hyperscalers Begin Working On CentOS Stream Hyperscale 10  Phoronix

With CentOS Stream 10 beginning to take shape as the basis for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, the Hyperscale Special Interest Group (SIG) has begun crafting CentOS Stream Hyperscale 10...

For those using an Apple Magic Keyboard with a T2-secured Mac, the upcoming Linux 6.11 kernel will enable working keyboard backlight support...

Fedora 41 Workstation With GNOME To Be Wayland Only!  It's FOSS News

Eldorado ransomware-as-a-service gang targets Linux, Windows systems  The Register

Google Extends Linux Kernel Support To Maintain Android Device Security Longer  VOI English

How to Monitor an Ubuntu Server With Prometheus: Collecting and Visualizing System Metrics  Linux Journal

Naughty Dog May Still be Using Linux to Develop Parts of its Games  GameRant

Mozilla Firefox 128.0 is now available for download ahead of the official release announcement due out in the coming hours...