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Qualcomm Posts Patches For New DSP Accelerator Linux Driver

Phoronix - Tue, 02/24/2026 - 04:00
The newest driver proposed for the Linux kernel's accelerator "accel" subsystem is named QDA and is a Qualcomm DSP Accelerator driver...

Intel Releases OpenVINO 2026 With Improved NPU Handling, Expanded LLM Support

Phoronix - Tue, 02/24/2026 - 02:19
Intel's open-source OpenVINO AI toolkit is out with its first major release of 2026. With today's OpenVINO 2026.0 release there is expanded large language model (LLM) support, improved Intel NPU support for Core Ultra systems, and a variety of other enhancements for benefiting Intel's CPU / NPU / GPU range of products for AI...

Firefox 148 Now Available With The New AI Controls / AI Kill Switches

Phoronix - Tue, 02/24/2026 - 00:40
Firefox 148 release binaries are now available ahead of the official release announcement on Tuesday. Most notable is the new AI controls found with Firefox 148 for those wishing to disable Firefox's growing AI capabilities...

Linux 7.0 Features Include More Preparations For AMD Zen 6 & Intel Nova Lake

Phoronix - Tue, 02/24/2026 - 00:06
While the version bump to 7.0 is driven solely by Linus Torvalds' versioning preferences, with Linux 7.0 there are many great changes to be found in this upcoming stable kernel version to power the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Here is a recap of all the interesting changes with Linux 7.0.

FreeBSD's Rust Kernel Support Could Be Stable Enough To Try This Year

Phoronix - Mon, 02/23/2026 - 23:13
The FreeBSD Project has published their Q4'2025 status report to outline progress made on their software, infrastructure, and other initiatives over the past quarter. Meanwhile among the work to look forward to this year in FreeBSD is getting their Rust kernel driver support up to scratch...

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