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      Many MediaTek MT76 WiFi Driver Improvements Coming For Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 April 2026

    Separate from the recently discussed work on MediaTek MT7927 "Filogic 380" support being worked on for the MT76 Linux driver (still undergoing review), a number of other MediaTek MT76 wireless driver improvements are queued up ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window opening as soon as next week...
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      Google Proposes JSIR As A High-Level IR For JavaScript

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 April 2026

    Google engineers have been developing JSIR as a high-level intermediate representation (JSIR) for JavaScript that they are already using in production at the company code code analysis and transforming other code/bytecode to JavaScript as well as for deobfuscating JavaScript code...
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      Tiny Corp Begins Accepting Pre-Orders For Their $10M Exabox

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 April 2026

    Open-source friendly company Tiny Corp that is behind the Tinygrad MIT-licensed neural network framework and developing a "sovereign" AMD GPU driver stack with their Tinybox hardware offerings has their sights on shipping the Exabox next year. The Tiny Corp's Exabox is expected to retail for around $10M USD but offer immense AI compute power...
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      Linux 7.0-rc7 Released With Improved Docs For AI Agents, WiFi Driver Performance Fix

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 April 2026

    Timed for Easter this year is the seventh weekly release candidate for the Linux 7.0 kernel. If all goes well, Linux 7.0 stable will be out next week...
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      Linux 7.1 To Begin Removing i486 CPU Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 April 2026

    It's finally time: a patch queued into one of the development branches ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window is set to finally begin the process of phasing out and ultimately removing Intel 486 CPU support from the Linux kernel. Anyone still using an i486 CPU with an upstream Linux kernel would be incredibly rare and no known Linux distribution vendors are still shipping with i486 CPU support, but in case you are, you can continue to be running one of the existing Linux LTS kernel versions...
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      AMD & Valve Deliver Better Kaveri / Kabini APU Experience With Upcoming Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 April 2026

    A nice Easter surprise are some last minute updates submitted to DRM-Next of the final planned AMDGPU/AMDKFD feature changes for the upcoming Linux 7.1 feature cycle...
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      Linux 7.0-rc7 Adding More Documentation For AI Tools To Send Better Security Bug Reports

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 April 2026

    For helping with the increase of AI tools scouring the Linux kernel source tree and sending security bug reports, a pull request sent today ahead of the Linux 7.0-rc7 improves the documentation to better guide AI agents -- and anyone reading the documentation -- how to send better quality bug reports...
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      hid-omg-detect: Linux Driver In Development To Detect Malicious HID Devices

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 April 2026

    Zubeyr Almaho has been leading work on a new HID driver named hid-omg-detect with an intent on passive monitoring to watch out for any malicious HID devices being connected to the system...
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      Linux Sees Fixes For Its GD-ROM Driver In 2026 For Sega Dreamcast

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 April 2026

    Seeing new Linux patches for benefiting Sega Dreamcast devices wasn't on my bingo card for 2026. A patch series was sent out today for fixing the Linux kernel's GD-ROM driver for accessing media using the drivers on "real" Sega Dreamcast devices...