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      The Surprising Spectre BHI Mitigation Performance Impact On Meteor Lake

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 January 2026

    When recently carrying out performance benchmarks of Intel Meteor Lake performance on Linux since launch day two years ago, the geo mean came in at 93% the original performance. Finding the performance trending clearly lower with an up-to-date Linux software stack compared to in December 2023 was quite surprising considering the rather nice gains we have seen over time on other Intel/AMD hardware. As noted in that article though, one of the possible explanations there is the Spectre BHI "Branch History Injection" vulnerability and microcode plus Linux kernel mitigations having come out post-launch and affecting Meteor Lake CPUs. Sure enough, follow-up tests looking at the Spectre BHI impact have revealed a measurable cost in a number of workloads for the Core Ultra processor.
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      Tinygrad 0.12 Released With Mesa NIR/NAK Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 January 2026

    Tinygrad 0.12 is out today for this deep learning stack led by George Hotz...
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      Firefox 147 Now Available With XDG Base Directory Specification Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 January 2026

    Firefox 147.0 release binaries have hit the Mozilla servers today as the latest monthly update to this open-source web browser. Firefox 147 is exciting for Linux users in finally delivering XDG Base Directory Specification support...
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      Intel Releases Open3D 0.19 With Experimental Cross-Platform GPU Support Using SYCL

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 January 2026

    Not to be confused with the Open 3D game engine, Intel's Intelligent Systems Lab Organization released Open3D 0.19 as the latest iteration of this open-source library for 3D data processing in Python and C++...
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      Nova Lake & Crescent Island Support Lands In The Intel Graphics Compiler

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 January 2026

    Released this morning is the Intel Graphics Compiler "IGC" 2.27.10 that comes with initial support for next-generation Nova Lake and Crescent Island Xe3P hardware...
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      LLMinus Working On AI/LLM-Powered Merge Conflict Resolution For The Linux Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 January 2026

    Building off an initial request for comments (RFC) patch series posted during the winter holidays, an updated RFC patch series was posted this weekend for LLMinus. LLMinus is an effort led by NVIDIA Linux kernel engineer Sasha Levin to provide a large language model (LLM) assisted merge conflict resolution tool focused on Linux kernel development...
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      LLVM Clang Adds Support For "Ampere1C" CPUs - Presumably AmpereOne Aurora

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 January 2026

    The LLVM/Clang compiler today introduced support for the Ampere Computing Ampere1C CPU core target...
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      Auto-CPUFreq 3.0 Released To Help You Extend Laptop Battery Life On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 January 2026

    Auto-CPUFreq 3.0 released this weekend as the newest version of this Linux user-space tool to help you extend your laptop battery life by automatically applying CPU speed and power optimizations. When all goes according to plan, Auto-CPUFreq means extending your battery life without compromises to the user experience...
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      Budgie 11 Desktop Being Developed With The Qt6 Toolkit

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 January 2026

    With Budgie 10.10 released this weekend, Budgie desktop developers have provided an update around Budgie 11 desktop development...