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Firefox 153 Available With Support For Vulkan Video Decoding, Experimental JPEG-XL

Phoronix - Mon, 07/20/2026 - 19:32
Mozilla has uploaded the Firefox 153.0 release binaries today for the newest monthly update to this cross-platform web browser. Making Firefox 153 exciting is that it's the newest Extended Support Release "ESR" as well as introducing Vulkan Video decode support...

openSUSE Seeking Additional Corporate Sponsors

Phoronix - Mon, 07/20/2026 - 19:17
While openSUSE is closely aligned with SUSE as a company, they aren't the exclusive sponsor of this free and open-source Linux distribution with its rolling-release Tumbleweed and Leap stable releases. AMD has been a longtime major supporter of openSUSE and the Fastly content delivery company has been another platinum sponsor too besides SUSE. There are also various other lower-tier sponsors while today the openSUSE Project put out a call for further corporate sponsorship...

AMD Posts AVX10_V2_AUX ISA Support Patches For GCC Compiler

Phoronix - Mon, 07/20/2026 - 18:27
Earlier this month Intel compiler engineers posted initial GCC compiler patches for the AI Compute Extensions "ACE" that was born out of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group to augment AVX and scalar code with new capabilities for AI/ML workloads. Now as part of that an AMD compiler engineer posted patches over the weekend for AVX10_V2_AUX ISA support...

Linux's Qualcomm Crypto Accelerator Driver "Harmful" And Being Disabled: Slower Than CPU, History Of Bugs

Phoronix - Mon, 07/20/2026 - 18:17
The Qualcomm Crypto Engine Accelerator "QCE" driver is being disabled within the Linux 7.3 kernel over a number of issues, including being slower than having the CPU cores handling cryptographic work and a history of different driver bugs. Plus race conditions causing security issues and other challenges...

Hyprland 0.56 Released With Many Enhancements To This Wayland Compositor

Phoronix - Mon, 07/20/2026 - 18:06
Out today is Hyprland 0.56 as the newest feature update to this unique Wayland compositor and incorporating just under three months worth of improvements...

Claude Code Skills: Automate Repetitive Linux Tasks with Custom Skills

Tecmint - Mon, 07/20/2026 - 16:23
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This walks through what a Claude Code Skill actually is, how to install pre-built skills from Anthropic’s marketplace, how to

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