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      Firefox 154 Now Available With "Manage AI" Quick Action

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 August 2026

    Firefox 154 is now available as the newest monthly update bringing a few new features, enhancements, and other alterations to this open-source web browser...
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      Intel & AMD Power Management Driver Improvements Ready For Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 August 2026

    In advance of the Linux 7.3 merge window opening, Linux power management subsystem maintainer Rafael Wysocki of Intel submitted all the power management, ACPI, and thermal control code. As not too much of a surprise, Intel and AMD driver updates dominate the power management changes for Linux 7.3...
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      KTransformers 0.7 Expands AVX-512 Support To Benefit AMD EPYC Servers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 August 2026

    KTransformers as the framework for heterogeneous LLM inference and fine-tune optimizations is out today with its v0.7 feature release...
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      Con Kolivas Revives "-ck" Patches & MuQSS To Improve Linux Desktop Responsiveness

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 August 2026

    Huge surprise this morning! Longtime Linux users may recall the out-of-tree work done years ago by open-source developer Con Kolivas... And as part of that his work on the Brain F*** Scheduler that evolved into the MuQSS scheduler, all in the name of working to improve Linux desktop and mobile responsiveness. While a number of years ago he decided to retire from this out-of-tree Linux kernel work, out of the blue he announced a new -ck patch series today with updated MuQSS code...
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      Linux 7.3 On PowerPC Now Supports In-Kernel Rust, Initial Power12 Enablement Begins

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 August 2026

    The PowerPC pull request has already been sent in for the now open Linux 7.3 merge window. The headline feature this cycle on the POWER side is Rust kernel support for PowerPC 32-bit PPC32BE big endian and PowerPC 64-bit PPC64LE little endian architectures...
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      ARM64 BBML3 Feature Ready With Linux 7.3, NVIDIA Olympus Workarounds

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 August 2026

    AI/LLM patch craziness hurt ARM64 development for the Linux 7.2 cycle that no real features landed for that kernel version on AArch64. Fortunately, the ARM Linux developers are more prepared now and for Linux 7.3 are introducing some new ARM64 features...
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      GNU Linux-libre 7.2-gnu Released Following More Driver Cleaning

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 August 2026

    Following yesterday's release of the Linux 7.2 kernel, GNU Linux-libre 7.2-gnu is now available for this kernel downstream that strips out support for drivers depending upon non-free-software microcode/firmware, the ability to load closed-source kernel modules, and other restrictions in the name of software freedom...
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      Linux 7.2 Released With Faster I/O, New AMD & Intel Driver Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 August 2026

    Linus Torvalds just released Linux 7.2 as stable! After a very busy kernel cycle due to the increased patch and reporting churn due to AI/LLM ages, Linux 7.2 managed to make it out today on-schedule for this feature-packed kernel. Linux 7.2 is going on to power Ubuntu 26.10 and other upcoming Linux distribution releases...
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      GIMP Making Progress On New Project File Format After Nearly 30 Years With XCF

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 August 2026

    The GIMP project has published their latest development update to highlight the interesting work that's ongoing toward GIMP 3.4 and future releases...