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Valve's new Linux VRAM fix almost triples framerates in some games on the 4GB Radeon RX 6500 XT  XDA

AMD on the software side continues investing heavily in GAIA "Generative AI Is Awesome" as their cross-platform solution built around the Lemonade SDK for running local AI agents on your AMD-powered hardware from CPUs to GPUs and NPUs. With today's GAIA update, custom-generated AI agents are now portable with easy import and export support...

Released at the beginning of the month was a new version of HarfBuzz, a widely-used, open-source text shaping engine. With this HarfBuzz 14.0 release it introduced a GPU-based text rasterization library that supported GLSL shaders as well as HLSL, WGSL, and APple's Metal MSL. Since then this GPU-accelerated library has been seeing more improvements...

Archinstall 4.3 Arch Linux Installer Adds Support for Installing Additional Fonts  9to5Linux

As enterprise IT enters the era of autonomous workflows, we are excited to introduce the Red Hat Lightspeed Agent for Google Cloud, now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace.The Red Hat Lightspeed Agent for Google Cloud is an enterprise-ready tool designed specifically for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to help Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and IT administrators manage their Red Hat infrastructure on Google Cloud using natural language. Built on the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol using Google’s Gemini models, the agent integrates directly into the Gemini Enterprise environment. The a

In the tech world, we often talk about the "next big thing." But as I’ve shared before, real innovation isn’t just about the initial spark of an idea; it’s about the collective effort required to move that idea from a research lab into a resilient, production-grade environment. It’s about the "and"—combining research and innovation with enterprise operations. That’s why I’m proud to announce that The Open Accelerator is joining the Google for Startups Cloud Program. With this collaboration, participants in The Open Accelerator will gain access to a breadth of Google resources des

In early 2025, I wrote that uncertain times call for greater operational control and IT resiliency. Today, those uncertainties have materialized into a permanent shift in how European organizations view their digital future. By moving AI from the sandbox to the center of the enterprise, the industry has placed a massive new burden on IT infrastructure, making rigorous operational oversight the new baseline for success. Enterprises need greater control over how and where AI runs and a consistent way to govern fast moving technologies like agentic AI.To understand how IT leaders are navigating t

Geopolitical shifts and evolving regulatory frameworks like the EU AI Act, the NIS2 Directive, and the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) continue to redefine the landscape for global enterprises. This has shifted digital sovereignty from an abstract compliance concept to a critical strategic mandate for risk mitigation. For organizations in highly regulated industries, achieving true digital autonomy requires more than just localizing physical data centers. It demands developing a strong sovereign support model to help build, deploy and run critical workloads in-jurisdiction. This requ

Valve's new low-VRAM Linux fix nearly triples FPS in select games on AMD's RX 6500 XT  TweakTown

The Kernel-based Virtual Machine changes were recently merged for the Linux 7.1 merge window for further enhancing KVM as this important piece of the open-source virtualization stack...

Last week saw the "NTFS resurrection" as Linux Torvalds put it with the new/overhauled NTFS driver having been merged for Linux 7.1. Even still, the NTFS3 driver that was contributed a few years ago by Paragon Software remains in the mainline kernel and today were some fixes/improvements merged for that existing driver...

Linux 7.1 will have an optional new NTFS driver  theregister.com

Valve low-VRAM Linux fix tested on RX 6500 XT, gains reach 6.4% in some games  VideoCardz.com

Now you can run Steam games in Linux on some handhelds that ship with Android  Liliputing

While FEX-Emu has been garnering a lot of attention due to being sponsored by Valve and slated to be used by the Steam Frame for running Linux x86_64 binaries on AArch64, the Box64 project continues moving along with similar goals for x86_64 binaries on other CPU architectures...

Box64 0.4.2 Begins Working On POWER PPC64LE Backend, Support For SteamRT3 + Proton 11  Phoronix

Git developers continue working toward Git 3.0 while out today is Git 2.54 with a few interesting additions...

Ubuntu 26.04 will block your upgrade on Thursday if your containers still use cgroup v1  XDA

It's not only the uutil's Rust Coreutils project seeing performance improvements but some increased healthy competition now from GNU Coreutils. With today's release of GNU Coreutils 9.11 the wc command is up to multiple times faster and even cat can be up to 15 times faster...

Valve's new low VRAM optimization shines in select games in early 4GB GPU test  Notebookcheck