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Servo Browser Engine Restores Firefox Devtools Support

Phoronix - Mon, 09/23/2024 - 18:29
The Servo open-source browser layout engine has supported making use of the Firefox Devtools code for the provided web developer tools such as the HTML web page inspector and browser console. But that support had fallen into disrepair. Fortunately, thanks to a useful Outreachy project, the code has been updated and now working nicely with the newer Devtools code...

FFmpeg Merges Implicit DRM Synchronization For Vulkan

Phoronix - Mon, 09/23/2024 - 18:20
Following Vulkan Video H.264/H.265 video encoder support being merged into the FFmpeg library, the latest improvement for this open-source multimedia API when leveraging Vulkan is implicit DRM synchronization...

Linus Torvalds Adds User-Access Fast Validation Via Address Masking To Linux 6.12

Phoronix - Mon, 09/23/2024 - 04:14
In between Linus Torvalds' busy week being in Vienna for the Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit and related Linux Foundation events as well as managing the Linux 6.12 merge window with landing new features like sched_ext and real-time PREEMPT_RT, he also managed to finish up some of his own code for this next kernel version. Being merged today is his own code working on a new user access fast validation path using address masking...

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