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      KDE Plasma 6.6.1 Released With Initial Batch Of Bug Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 February 2026

    Following last week's Plasma 6.6 release, KDE developers today shipped Plasma 6.6.1 as the first point release with an assortment of different bug fixes...
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      CGIT 1.3 Web Frontend For Git Released After Six Years

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 February 2026

    Jason Donenfeld of WireGuard and Linux cryptography fame has taken a break from that to release a new version of CGIT, the lightweight web interface for Git repositories. CGIT 1.3 is the first new release in six years and comes with a lot of changes...
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      Mesa PanVK Driver Seeing Up To 25.7x Speedup For MSAA

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 February 2026

    The open-source PanVK driver providing Vulkan support for modern Arm Mali graphics hardware is seeing big speed-ups in the multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) performance in Vulkan tests as a result of new code merged today to Mesa 26.1...
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      Linus Torvalds Drops Old Linux Kconfig Option To Address Tiresome Kernel Log Spam

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 February 2026

    Following yesterday's Linux 7.0-rc1 release, Linus Torvalds authored and merged a patch to get rid of the Linux kernel's WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM Kconfig option. While that option was added with good intentions, on some systems it can yield a lot of unnecessary kernel log spam...
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      Qualcomm Posts Patches For New DSP Accelerator Linux Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 February 2026

    The newest driver proposed for the Linux kernel's accelerator "accel" subsystem is named QDA and is a Qualcomm DSP Accelerator driver...
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      Intel Releases OpenVINO 2026 With Improved NPU Handling, Expanded LLM Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 February 2026

    Intel's open-source OpenVINO AI toolkit is out with its first major release of 2026. With today's OpenVINO 2026.0 release there is expanded large language model (LLM) support, improved Intel NPU support for Core Ultra systems, and a variety of other enhancements for benefiting Intel's CPU / NPU / GPU range of products for AI...
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      Firefox 148 Now Available With The New AI Controls / AI Kill Switches

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 February 2026

    Firefox 148 release binaries are now available ahead of the official release announcement on Tuesday. Most notable is the new AI controls found with Firefox 148 for those wishing to disable Firefox's growing AI capabilities...
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      Linux 7.0 Features Include More Preparations For AMD Zen 6 & Intel Nova Lake

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 February 2026

    While the version bump to 7.0 is driven solely by Linus Torvalds' versioning preferences, with Linux 7.0 there are many great changes to be found in this upcoming stable kernel version to power the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Here is a recap of all the interesting changes with Linux 7.0.
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      FreeBSD's Rust Kernel Support Could Be Stable Enough To Try This Year

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 February 2026

    The FreeBSD Project has published their Q4'2025 status report to outline progress made on their software, infrastructure, and other initiatives over the past quarter. Meanwhile among the work to look forward to this year in FreeBSD is getting their Rust kernel driver support up to scratch...