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FreeBSD Laptop Support Continues Improving With WiFi, GPU & Audio Driver Work

Phoronix - Wed, 07/15/2026 - 17:56
The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Project, which has received more than $750k USD in funding to improve the experience of FreeBSD on laptops, is out with its newest monthly progress report. A lot continues to happen for improving the FreeBSD laptop story, which in many aspects also benefits FreeBSD on the desktop too...

Mesa's Native Vulkan-To-Metal Driver Now Advertises Vulkan 1.4

Phoronix - Wed, 07/15/2026 - 17:39
KosmicKrisp as the Vulkan API driver built atop Apple's Metal API in Mesa for macOS and iOS systems is now advertising Vulkan 1.4 compatibility...

live on linux - CDM Create Digital Music

Google News - Wed, 07/15/2026 - 15:00
live on linux  CDM Create Digital Music

Khronos Lists First Conformant OpenCL 3.1 Implementation: Apple M1/M2 On Asahi Linux With Rusticl

Phoronix - Wed, 07/15/2026 - 09:14
Back in May OpenCL 3.1 was announced with a focus on AI and HPC workloads. Just over two months later, this incremental update over OpenCL 3.0 now has its first listed conformant OpenCL 3.1 implementation for passing the OpenCL 3.1 conformance test suite cases. It's Apple Silicon M1/M2 graphics running on Asahi Linux with the Mesa Rusticl driver...

How insurance organizations balance strict compliance with data agility

Red Hat News - Wed, 07/15/2026 - 08:00
While many organizations have recently adopted a cloud-first strategy, a significant number of those have since pivoted to operating in an open hybrid cloud environment. For insurance organizations, adopting a hybrid cloud strategy was largely because moving all operational data to the public cloud environments was impossible due to strict regulatory requirements and legal data privacy concerns.Insurers hold a vast amount of proprietary, personally identifiable data. In addition to basic financial data, insurers need to have sensitive information about policyholders so they can accurately ass

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