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      There's Hope That At Least Colorado's Age Attestation Bill Could Exclude Open-Source

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 March 2026

    Last week was a statement by System76 regarding recent age verification laws in California and Colorado among other US states that could have a profound impact on Linux distributions and other open-source software. The Colorado legislation is especially pressing to System76 considering that is where they are based. Fortunately, they aren't taking this lightly and there is some hope that at least in Colorado open-source software could be excluded...
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      NVIDIA Releases New R595-Derived Vulkan Developer Beta For Linux With New Features

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 March 2026

    Last week NVIDIA released the 595.45.04 Linux driver beta as their first release in the R595 series for Linux and it's running very well in initial testing. Today as part of their Vulkan developer beta program, they have released the NVIDIA 595.44.02 driver that brings some new Vulkan API features...
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      NVIDIA Adds Official Support For RHEL-Compatible Distributions Like AlmaLinux With CUDA 13.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 March 2026

    With CUDA 13.2 that is now shipping, NVIDIA has provided official support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux compatible distributions/downstreams like AlmaLinux to CUDA. With this official NVIDIA CUDA support for these RHEL-compatible distributions, NVIDIA is also allowing the NVIDIA packages to be distributed directly from the OS package repositories...
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      Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Officially Supporting Cloud-Based Authentication With Authd

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 March 2026

    Canonical for a while has been developing Authd as an authentication service for external cloud-based identity providers. Authd was designed from the ground-up to provide secure management of identity and access for Ubuntu systems while only with next month's Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release is it actually hitting the universe archive...
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      Intel Publishes XeSS 3 SDK To GitHub - Still As Windows-Only Binaries

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 March 2026

    Intel just published the XeSS 3.0 SDK to GitHub as the newest version of their Xe Super Sampling AI-enhanced upscaling technology for gamers. Sadly though it remains proprietary software and only with native support for Windows...
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      AMD Formally Launches Ryzen AI Embedded P100 Series 8-12 Core Models

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 March 2026

    AMD announced back at CES the Ryzen AI Embedded P100 series with initially the models up to six Zen 5 cores launching while the eight through twelve core models would be available later in H1. Today AMD formally announced those higher-tier Ryzen AI Embedded P100 series parts...
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      NVIDIA 595 Linux Driver Running Well In Early Benchmarks

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 March 2026

    Last week NVIDIA released the 595.45.04 beta Linux driver as their first public build in the R595 release branch. The NVIDIA R595 Linux driver is bringing a number of Vulkan driver improvements, HDR enhancements, DRI3 v1.2 support, and a variety of other improvements. Benchmarking the NVIDIA 595.45.04 Linux driver the past few days on GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" have been showing some nice incremental performance improvements over the current NVIDIA 590 driver stable series.
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      New Rust Driver Aims To Improve Upstream Linux On Synology NAS Devices

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 March 2026

    A set of patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list last week introduce a new driver for enhancing the upstream/mainline Linux kernel support for Synology network attached storage (NAS) devices. This new driver is Synology Microp and is making use of the Linux kernel's modern Rust programming language support...
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      GCC 16 Compiler Aiming For Mid-April Release Candidate But "Slow" Progress On Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 March 2026

    Richard Biener of SUSE published a new status report on the state of GCC 16 development. Regression fixing has been going slow but they are hoping to publish a release candidate by mid-April...