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AMD's Lemonade AI Server Now Much More Useful With MCP Server Integration

Phoronix - Thu, 06/18/2026 - 03:43
The open-source Lemonade AI server for "100% free and private" AI usage across Windows and Linux in leveraging AMD Ryzen AI NPUs, Radeon GPUs, and x86_64 CPUs, is now much more powerful with today's v10.8 release...

Experimental, Reverse-Engineered & AI Assisted Rust Driver Targets Modern DisplayLink Hardware

Phoronix - Thu, 06/18/2026 - 00:23
The original DisplayLink USB display adapters were great for working with an upstream, open-source driver while sadly the newer DisplayLink tech has been limited to an out-of-tree driver and proprietary user-space daemon. But posted today is an experimental "Vino" driver that is a clean-room, reverse-engineered driver for newer DisplayLink hardware...

Epic Games Announces Lore Open-Source Version Control System

Phoronix - Wed, 06/17/2026 - 22:45
Epic Games announced today they have created a new version control system that is now open-source as Lore. Given the proliferation and excellence of Git, you may be wondering why Epic Games is pursuing another VCS option... They are specifically catering Lore to games and entertainment purposes with large file sizes...

Intel Core Ultra X7 Panther Lake Performance On Linux 7.1

Phoronix - Wed, 06/17/2026 - 22:30
After recently noting the Intel Arc B580 Battlemage performance improving with Linux 7.1 and similarly finding performance gains for the Arc Pro B70 on Linux 7.1, several Phoronix readers have been wondering whether the newer Xe3 graphics with Panther Lake similarly benefit. Here are some CPU and iGPU benchmarks of the Core Ultra X7 358H "Panther Lake" SoC between Linux 7.0 and the recently stabilized Linux 7.1 kernel.

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