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AMD today is announcing what they call "the most powerful PRO GPU under $1,000" with the Radeon PRO W7700 that has a suggested price of $999. Like the rest of the Radeon PRO W7000 series, the W7700 enjoys fully upstream and working open-source Linux graphics driver support for launch day. I received an AMD Radeon PRO W7700 and have been putting it through its paces successfully under Linux.

Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Form the High Performance Software Foundation  Yahoo Finance

Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Form the High Performance ...  PR Newswire

With the SC23 Super Computing conference kicking off today in Denver, Intel has just lifted the embargo on a number of disclosures.

3DMARK is pitting all major OS' head-to-head with Steel Nomad  OC3D

Valve's Steam Deck is a heavy user of relying on pre-compiled shaders to yield quicker start times and a more efficient handheld gaming experience. But in cases where bugs happen and a shader compiler fix needs to be back-ported, there isn't a straight-forward means of properly handling that for the Steam Deck. But with new knobs being added to the Mesa RADV driver code, there will be some options for better dealing with this moving forward...

RADV Adds Knobs To Force Shader Re-Compilation - Helping ...  Phoronix

Following the recent talk of XWayland's rootful mode becoming more useful, Red Hat's Olivier Fourdan has continued enhancing the XWayland rootful support. Last week he opened up the merge request for adding HiDPI support to this mode...

Ahead of Supercomputing SC23 week, a new version of OpenBLAS has been published for this leading open-source Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) library. OpenBLAS 0.3.25 brings new improvements for Intel and AMD x86_64 CPUs as well as a number of general improvements, and continued tuning for other architectures like ARM64, POWER, and LoongArch...

OpenBLAS 0.3.25 Adds New AVX-512 Optimizations For Sapphire ...  Phoronix

After some time spent in testing, TuxClocker 1.3 with its new AMD GPU features was released as stable overnight...

New BiBi-Windows Wiper Targets Windows Systems in Pro-Hamas ...  The Hacker News

After a very exciting two weeks, the merge window for Linux 6.7 is now wrapped up and Linus Torvalds has published Linux 6.7-rc1 as the first release candidate leading up to the stable release around the end of the calendar year...

Linux 6.7-rc1 Released With NVIDIA GSP & Bcachefs While Itanium ...  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.7 Release Candidate  9to5Linux

Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.7 Release Candidate  9to5Linux

Back in September of this year, we announced a new industrial edge platform, designed in collaboration with Intel, that provides manufacturers with a modern approach to building and operating industrial controls. This industrial edge platform was created to provide a holistic solution, spanning from real-time shop floor control and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) to full IT manageability, that enables industrial control system (ICS) vendors, system integrators (SIs) and manufacturers to automate previously manual industrial automation tasks including: system development, deplo

OBS Studio Adds Support for Intel QSV, HEVC & AV1 on Linux  OMG! Ubuntu!

TUXEDO Pulse 14 Linux Laptop Refreshed with AMD Ryzen 7  OMG! Ubuntu!

The Linux 6.7 Merge Window Is Massive With Many New Features  Phoronix