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Tinygrad 0.12 Released With Mesa NIR/NAK Support

Phoronix - Tue, 01/13/2026 - 01:35
Tinygrad 0.12 is out today for this deep learning stack led by George Hotz...

Firefox 147 Now Available With XDG Base Directory Specification Support

Phoronix - Mon, 01/12/2026 - 22:33
Firefox 147.0 release binaries have hit the Mozilla servers today as the latest monthly update to this open-source web browser. Firefox 147 is exciting for Linux users in finally delivering XDG Base Directory Specification support...

Intel Releases Open3D 0.19 With Experimental Cross-Platform GPU Support Using SYCL

Phoronix - Mon, 01/12/2026 - 22:19
Not to be confused with the Open 3D game engine, Intel's Intelligent Systems Lab Organization released Open3D 0.19 as the latest iteration of this open-source library for 3D data processing in Python and C++...

Nova Lake & Crescent Island Support Lands In The Intel Graphics Compiler

Phoronix - Mon, 01/12/2026 - 21:25
Released this morning is the Intel Graphics Compiler "IGC" 2.27.10 that comes with initial support for next-generation Nova Lake and Crescent Island Xe3P hardware...

LLMinus Working On AI/LLM-Powered Merge Conflict Resolution For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Mon, 01/12/2026 - 21:08
Building off an initial request for comments (RFC) patch series posted during the winter holidays, an updated RFC patch series was posted this weekend for LLMinus. LLMinus is an effort led by NVIDIA Linux kernel engineer Sasha Levin to provide a large language model (LLM) assisted merge conflict resolution tool focused on Linux kernel development...

LLVM Clang Adds Support For "Ampere1C" CPUs - Presumably AmpereOne Aurora

Phoronix - Mon, 01/12/2026 - 19:22
The LLVM/Clang compiler today introduced support for the Ampere Computing Ampere1C CPU core target...

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