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      Chrome 146 Now In Beta With WebNN Origin Trial For Neural Networks In The Browser

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 February 2026

    Following yesterday's Chrome 145 release with JPEG-XL support, Chrome 146 today was promoted to the beta channel to help facilitate broader testing of the next round of Chrome/Chromium browser improvements...
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      Intel Arc B390 Panther Lake Generational Performance Since The Gen9 Graphics Era

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 February 2026

    Last week on Phoronix we provided initial Linux graphics benchmarks for the new Xe3-based Arc B390 graphics found with the higher-end Panther Lake SoCs with 12 Xe cores. Those benchmarks showed great gains over recent generations of Intel graphics like with Lunar Lake, Meteor Lake, and even Alder/Raptor Lake... But what if you hold onto your laptop for even longer? In this article is an Intel integrated graphics comparison looking at the general performance and power efficiency going all the way back to the Gen9 graphics era for what seemed like an eternity of Gen9-derived graphics during the Skylake era.
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      AMD ROCm TheRock 7.11 Released, Ubuntu Making Progress On Shipping ROCm Packages

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 February 2026

    Two useful bits of ROCm news today for those interested in AMD's open-source GPU compute stack...
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      Linux Mint Developing New Wayland-Compatible Screensaver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 February 2026

    The Linux Mint developers have been hard at work continuing to develop new features following their recent Mint 22.3 release. There is continued enhancements around keyboard support, a new administration tool for users, and there are also considerations being made around moving to a longer development cycle between Linux Mint releases...
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      Linux 7.0 Now Defaults To Intel TSX Auto Mode For Performance Benefits On Newer CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 February 2026

    The x86/cpu changes have been merged for Linux 7.0 and include finally setting the default Intel TSX mode to "auto" rather than being off by default...
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      OpenVPN 2.7 Released With Multi-Socket Server & DCO Linux Kernel Driver Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 February 2026

    For those using the open-source OpenVPN for your virtual private networking (VPN) needs, OpenVPN 2.7 is out today with some notable improvements...
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      Intel Releases New Compute Runtime, Upstreams More SYCL Code To LLVM

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 February 2026

    Intel today released a new version of their Compute Runtime stack and IGC graphics compiler for Level Zero and OpenCL usage with their integrated and discrete graphics. Separately they also upstreamed more SYCL code this week into mainline LLVM...
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      Linux 7.0 Scores +12% In UDP Network Performance Test From Manually Inlining Function

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 February 2026

    The core timer changes to the Linux 7.0 kernel score a rather nice performance improvement in a UDP receive network stress test from inlining a function that compilers haven't been able to tackle with their optimizations...
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      Upstream Wine Making Progress On Patches For Satisfying Adobe Photoshop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 February 2026

    There were recently patches for getting the Adobe Photoshop 2025 installer to work on Linux under Wine. Those patches were picked up by Wine-Staging and now more traction is coming for getting those patches into the upstream Wine codebase, some of which have now been merged...