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      Intel CPU Security Mitigation Costs From Haswell Through Panther Lake

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 March 2026

    Over the past month on Phoronix there have been a lot of benchmarks of Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" with the Core Ultra X7 358H. One of the areas of Panther Lake not explored yet is around the CPU security mitigation impact, which is the focus of today's benchmarking. The performance tests today are not only looking at the impact of the Core Ultra X7 SoC at its default versus running in a "mitigations=off" configuration but also comparing the overall CPU security mitigation impact with the run-time toggle going back all the way to Intel Haswell era laptops.
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      EndeavourOS Titan Released With Linux 6.19, Improved GPU Driver Integration

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 March 2026

    EndeavourOS Titan is out today as the latest ISO refresh for this Arch Linux powered distribution. There is a lot of updates as part of this routine ISO refresh as well as some new tooling and GPU driver integration enhancements...
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      AMD HDR/Color Improvement For Their Linux Driver & KDE - Co-Developed By Claude Code

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 March 2026

    Introduced with Linux 6.19 was the long in development DRM Color Pipeline API while it's not the end of the road yet on enhancing the Linux desktop for modern high dynamic range (HDR) displays and color pipeline handling. AMD engineer Harry Wentland has more improvements pending for the AMDGPU driver as well as example compositor/desktop-side integration with KDE's KWin...
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      AMD, NVIDIA, OpenAI & Others Form An Optical Scale-up Consortium

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 March 2026

    AMD, Broadcom, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI jointly announced today the formation of the Optical Compute Interconnect (OCI) Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) optical scale-up consortium...
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      Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Finally Lands VK_KHR_copy_memory_indirect

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 March 2026

    In Mesa 26.1 the Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has finally landed support for the VK_KHR_copy_memory_indirect extension that was introduced to the Vulkan API last year...
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      Mesa 26.0.2 Has Plenty Of Graphics Driver Fixes From Intel & RADV Vulkan To Old R300g

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 March 2026

    Mesa 26.0.2 is now available as the latest bi-weekly stable point release for this set of open-source graphics drivers predominantly used on Linux systems...
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      Qt Creator 19 IDE Released With Minimap, Built-In MCP Server For AI / LLMs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 March 2026

    Qt developers today released Qt Creator 19 as the newest version of this cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE)...
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      Fwupd 2.1.1 Released With Lots Of New Hardware Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 March 2026

    Richard Hughes of Red Hat just announced the release of Fwupd 2.1.1 as the newest feature update to this solution for deploying system firmware updates and other device/peripheral firmware updates under Linux. Paired with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS), Fwupd has made firmware updating a breeze on Linux for an increasing number of devices...
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      Igalia Developing Moonforge As New Linux Distribution

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 March 2026

    Linux consulting firm Igalia announced this week Moonforge, a new in-house Linux distribution by them based on Yocto and OpenEmbedded...