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      Intel Releases QATlib 26.02 With New APIs For Zero-Copy DMA

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 February 2026

    Of Intel's different CPU accelerator IPs, the arguably most useful and with the greatest customer interest remains around QuickAssist Technology (QAT). Intel QAT allows offloading various compression and encryption tasks for better performance. Intel this week released QATlib 26.02 as the newest version of their user-space library for leveraging QuickAssist Technology on capable hardware...
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      DreamWorks' OpenMoonRay 2.40 Introduces New GUI, Light Path Visualizer

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 February 2026

    Back in 2022 DreamWorks Animation announced they were open-sourcing their MoonRay renderer and was then published in early 2023 for this renderer that has been used in a variety of featured animated films. Since then they have continued advancing this MoonRay code via the open-source OpenMoonRay project and this week published their newest feature update...
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      Microsoft On QEMU 10.2's New MSHV Accelerator For Hyper-V Guests

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 February 2026

    With QEMU 10.2 that released at the end of last year is the new "MSHV" accelerator for allowing VMs to be created from a Microsoft Hyper-V guest without using nested virtualization. Last weekend at FOSDEM 2026 was a presentation on this MSHV accelerator for those interested...
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      Linux 6.19 Features Include Many Benefits For Intel & AMD Users

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 February 2026

    With the Linux 6.19 stable kernel expected to be released tomorrow (8 February), here is a reminder about the top features to expect from this next version of the Linux kernel...
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      NetBSD 11.0-RC1 Available For Testing With Enhanced Linux Emulation

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 February 2026

    The first release candidate of the big NetBSD 11.0 release is now available for testing...
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      Initial AMD Zen 6 "znver6" Support Merged For LLVM/Clang

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 February 2026

    Merged overnight to the LLVM/Clang compiler's codebase was initial targeting for next-generation AMD Zen 6 processors using the znver6 target...
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      KDE Linux To Provide Better Hardware Support & Better Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 February 2026

    Following the September release of the KDE LInux reference distribution for the KDE desktop in alpha form, KDE Linux developers have been working toward the beta release with more improvements to this open-source desktop distro...
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      KMS Recovery Mechanism Being Worked On For Linux Display Drivers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 February 2026

    A Linux kernel engineer at Microsoft is working on a useful Linux desktop improvement. Hamza Mahfooz who previously worked for AMD on their AMDGPU Linux display driver code has been spearheading work on a KMS recovery mechanism to help kernel mode-setting display drivers recover in case of problems...
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      GNOME's Glycin 2.1 Beta Enables JPEG 2000 Support By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 February 2026

    GNOME's Rust-based and sandboxed Glycin image loading library focused on safety now supports JPEG 2000 images by default...