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      GNOME Receiving Additional Design Help Thanks To Sovereign Tech Agency Fellowship

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 August 2026

    Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency announced earlier this year a new fellowship program and now as part of that, for the next two years GNOME has a fellow dedicated to working on design and community management...
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      HWMON Fixes For Linux 7.2-rc7: "Most Of Them Fixing Critical Or High Severity Bugs"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 August 2026

    It's been another busy week in the Linux kernel camp with increased patch activity continuing due to AI/LLM coding agents / bots continuing to uncover different defects in the open-source codebase. The hardware monitoring (HWMON) subsystem saw many fixes this week for issues mostly raised by the Sashiko AI bot with the issues being described as mostly critical or high severity bugs...
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      AI Helped Create A DirectX 11 Driver For QEMU VMs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 August 2026

    Thanks in part to the power of Claude Opus 5 and Claude Fable 5, a new Windows DirectX 11 driver for QEMU has been created to help improve graphics acceleration for Microsoft Windows guests running under QEMU virtual machines...
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      Linux 7.2-rc7 Adding Support For The Most Unique Or Very Funky Gaming Controller

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 August 2026

    The input subsystem fixes for the week include a number of AI-driven patches to address various information leaks, out-of-bounds accesses, validation fixes, and other coding issues that have turned up recently. Plus some device quirks and also adding support for a rather funky gaming controller to the common XPad Linux driver used by many different gaming controllers...
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      KDE Plasma 6.8 Improvements For UI, Built-In Remote Desktop Server

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 August 2026

    It's been another busy summertime week of KDE developers working toward a great Plasma 6.8 desktop release in October...
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      Linux 7.3 To Support Logitech HID++ 2.0 Reprogrammable Button Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 August 2026

    For those with newer, high-end Logitech input devices, coming with Linux 7.3 is support for the re-programmable button support of the HID++ 2.0 protocol...
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      Initial Apple M3 Pro / Max / Ultra Support Being Upstreamed For Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 August 2026

    Upstreamed for the Linux 7.2 kernel was the Device Tree (DT) support for booting the mainline Linux kernel on the base Apple M3 SoC. Though it's not yet useful for end-users with many features remaining to be supported and upstreamed. Now for the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel, the M3 Pro, Max, and Ultra variants will also have initial support for booting on the mainline kernel...
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      Intel QATlib 26.08 Released With Gen6 Device Support, 2MB Hugepages

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 August 2026

    Intel today released an updated version of their QuickAssist Technology library (QATlib) as the user-space component for making use of QuickAssist accelerators under Linux...
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      TTM Memory Management For Graphics To Be More Aggresive With Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 August 2026

    This week a final batch of DRM-Misc-Next feature material was submitted for DRM-Next to queue ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window opening later in the month. Most notable is the TTM memory management code is now being more agressive when allocating below protection limits. This is an improvement coming thanks to Valve's open-source Linux graphics team...