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Intel Extension For PyTorch Now Officially Supports Arc A-Series Graphics  Phoronix

NVIDIA today released their 550.54.14 driver, which is their first production-ready/stable driver version in the R550 series...

NVIDIA 550.54.14 Release Brings R550 Series Linux Driver To Stable  Phoronix

Nvidia Grace falls short of Threadripper 7000 in head-to-head Linux benchmarks  Yahoo! Voices

Nvidia Grace falls short of Threadripper 7000 in head-to-head Linux benchmarks  Tom's Hardware

KDE hopes its Slimbook V featuring an AMD 7840HS is enough to rival Windows  XDA Developers

While the Linux 6.8 kernel merge window has been over for several weeks now, due to a busy February of new hardware releases and lots of Linux hardware reviews/benchmarking, I've been behind in writing up my Linux 6.8 feature recap. For those wanting a concise look at the many great changes coming with Linux 6.8 that will debut as stable in March, here's an overview of the interesting Linux 6.8 changes.

Linux 6.8 Features Excite With New Intel Xe Driver, Performance Optimizations & New Hardware  Phoronix

NVIDIA 550.54.14 Linux Graphics Driver Released with Many Improvements  9to5Linux

NVIDIA 550.54.14 Linux Graphics Driver Released with Many Improvements  9to5Linux

The Linux Concept Journey — Loadable Kernel Module (LKM)  Medium

16-inch KDE Slimbook V Linux laptop with AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS up for pre-orders starting at €999  Notebookcheck.net

Sent in overnight was this week's batch of DRM "fixes" for Linux 6.8 that included some mostly minor fixes plus a few notable but small patches to Nouveau, the upstream open-source NVIDIA DRM/KMS kernel driver...

Nouveau Driver Squeezes In Some Last Minute Minor Additions For Linux 6.8  Phoronix

Snap store from Canonical (Ubuntu) hit with another crypto scam app  GamingOnLinux

Nephio R2 pushes open-source cloud-native network automation  SDxCentral

Kubuntu Focus M2 Linux laptop now comes with a Core i9-14900HX processor and NVIDIA RTX 40 series graphics  Liliputing

The Simple DirectMedia Library that is commonly used as an abstraction layer by cross-platform games and other software is now introducing a Vulkan renderer with SDL3...

I built a cheap DIY NAS server and saved $100s  Android Authority

As a follow-up to the news of Mesa looking at enabling Zink by default as part of the drivers to build out-of-the-box, that change has now been merged. Additionally, the D3D12 Mesa driver that sees regular contributions by Microsoft engineers is also now being compiled by default when running on Windows...