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AMD Engineer Leverages AI To Help Make A Pure-Python AMD GPU User-Space Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 03/04/2026 - 19:09
AMD's VP of AI Software, Anush Elangovan, has used Claude Code to help craft a pure-Python AMD GPU user-space driver. This Python user-space driver is currently being created to help exercise other ROCm code and for debugging in passing through the ROCm/HIP user-space stack...

Old ATI R300 Open-Source Driver Sees Another New Fix In 2026

Phoronix - Wed, 03/04/2026 - 18:58
The Radeon R300 series turns 24 years old this year and thanks to the open-source ATI R300 Gallium3D driver that began via reverse engineering, it's still continuing to see the occasional random fixes from the open-source community...

Ubuntu Still Figuring Out A Plan For Dealing With California's Digital Age Assurance Act

Phoronix - Wed, 03/04/2026 - 18:46
The talk this week among open-source projects from Linux distributions to app stores like Flathub is how to deal with California's latest insanity: the Digital Age Assurance Act. California's AB 1043 state law is mandating that operating systems -- Linux included -- collect age information during account setup and exposing that age to eligible apps beginning on 1 January 2027. That leaves much uncertainty for Linux distributions and other repositories/stores and more. Canonical issued a statement today to clarify that they basically don't have a solution to announce yet...

Using KMSCON As The Default VT Console Delayed To Fedora 45

Phoronix - Wed, 03/04/2026 - 09:17
For the past few months have been an ambitious proposal to replace FBCON with the user-space KMSCON as the default VT console starting on Fedora 44. Unfortunately, this and a few other features have now been delayed to the Fedora 45 release six months later...

Open data and the AI resilience premium

Red Hat News - Wed, 03/04/2026 - 08:00
For many large companies, AI is on every agenda, yet many leaders are still trying to make sense of what to do next. A big reason for this uncertainty is that huge amounts of data are still locked away in separate departments or stuck in systems that don't talk to each other, making it hard to turn that data into real value.The shift toward open collaborationIn 2026, the most forward-looking companies are starting to let go of the instinct to hold data tightly. Instead, they are focusing on what you might call a resilience advantage: working in open, collaborative networks that increase streng

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