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Microsoft announced the Cobalt 200 processor as their next-generation cloud-native CPU for the Azure Cloud. The Cobalt 200 will feature 132 Arm Neoverse-V3 based cores...

Microsoft Announces Cobalt 200 CPU With 132 Arm Neoverse-V3 Cores  Phoronix

AMD FSR Redstone Officially Launches for Radeon RX 9000 Series on December 10, Linux Developer Makes FSR 4 Available to Older GPUs  The FPS Review

Screw it, I’m installing Linux  The Verge

Steamworks SDK adds support for Linux Arm and Android, and it seems we know the first Android game on Steam  GamingOnLinux

When it comes to GPU virtualization we have seen AMD engineers carry out a lot of work in recent years around the Xen hypervisor even when it hasn't seen as much interest from other vendors. We found out that much of their interest in Xen for GPU virtualization is due to automotive / in-vehicle infotainment demands and it remains that way. They continue cooking some new features and they say "the best is yet to come" in a new presentation on their Xen virtualization efforts...

6 things I wish I knew before moving from Windows to Linux  How-To Geek

Alice Ryhl of Google sent out the main set of Rust language code changes for the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) graphics/display driver subsystem ahead of Linux 6.19. Notable is continued DRM core infrastructure work for Rust plus the open-source NVIDIA "Nova" driver continues taking shape albeit isn't yet ready for end-user usage...

More NVIDIA Nova Enablement For Linux 6.19 With Other Rust Graphics Driver Code  Phoronix

Microsoft's New Windows AI Feature Comes With Warnings About Malware and Data Theft  It's FOSS

Intel's ISA documentation was updated last week to confirm Nova Lake processors will support AVX10.2 and APX extensions after they were not officially acknowledged in prior versions of the spec and the initial open-source compiler enablement with -march=novalake also left them without those prominent ISA capabilities. Following that documentation update, a few days ago LLVM Clang updated their Nova Lake compiler support for the new ISA capabilities and now the GCC compiler has received similar treatment...

Sent out today was likely the last batch of HID subsystem fixes ahead of the Linux 6.18 kernel releasing as stable around the end of the month. With it are some new device-specific quirks for fixing hardware support for a mouse and keyboard...

Linux 6.18 Receives Fixes For ELECOM M-XT3URBK & SONiX AK870 PRO Devices  Phoronix

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Last week's Vulkan 1.4.333 brought a new ray-tracing extension with VK_EXT_ray_tracing_invocation_reorder that was derived from a prior NVIDIA vendor extension (VK_NV_ray_tracing_invocation_reorder). This new extension for Shader Execution Reordering "SER" is showing to deliver some nice performance potential for Vulkan ray-tracing performance...

For the past several months a Uniwill laptop driver for the Linux kernel has been in development to expose extra platform capabilities for laptops manufactured by this Taiwanese OEM/ODM manufacturer. Assuming no last minute issues, this driver is now set to premiere in Linux 6.19 for helping Uniwill laptops and hardware from other brands relying on Uniwill as the device manufacturer...

Uniwill Laptop Driver Set To Premiere In Linux 6.19 Kernel  Phoronix

Red Hat’s Kernel Talent Drain: David Howells’ Exit Signals Deeper Woes  WebProNews

RADV’s Rise: How Valve and AMD Are Reshaping Linux Graphics in Late 2025  WebProNews

The migration toolkit for virtualization 2.10 (MTV) is now generally available and expands on capabilities introduced in the recent release to better support your virtual machine (VM) migration journey with minimal downtime and reduced risk. With updates to storage offloading, your organization can efficiently plan and execute your VM migrations with MTV 2.10.Faster migrations, greater confidence with storage offloadingSpeed is a critical component of a VM migration. Storage offloading is now available in Technology Preview in MTV 2.10. For large-scale migrations, network bandwidth is often a