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      RADV Vulkan Driver Adds Memory Protection Using AMD Trusted Memory Zone

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 April 2026

    The newest Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" feature enabled by AMD engineers is protected memory support using the Trusted Memory Zone (TMZ) support on newer GPUs...
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      Valve Confirms Steam Controller Release Date, $99 Price

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 April 2026

    Valve just announced that their new Steam Controller will be going on sale on 4 May. Pricing in the US is at $99 USD...
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      Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus Provides Exceptional Value For Linux Users

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 April 2026

    After looking at the new Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus processor earlier this month with its nice performance evolution for Arrow Lake on Linux, today we are looking at the other new Intel desktop CPU offering: the Core Ultra 5 250K Plus that retails for just $219 USD.
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      With Linux 7.1 The Mainline Kernel Now Supports Real-Time "RT" On ARM

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 April 2026

    The Linux 7.1 mainline kernel will allow building a real-time "PREEMPT_RT" kernel for the ARM architecture with no longer needing any out-of-tree patches...
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      XWayland 24.1.11 Brings Crash Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 April 2026

    Red Hat's Olivier Fourdan announced today the availability of XWayland 24.1.11 that brings a few bug/regression fixes...
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      Linux 7.1 Adds SoC Slider Support To x86_energy_perf_policy Utility

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 April 2026

    One of the last feature pulls merged by Linus Torvalds prior to tagging Linux 7.1-rc1 this weekend were some power utility updates for those tools living within the kernel source tree...
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      AMD VPE 2.0 Support Merged For Mesa 26.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 April 2026

    Merged overnight to the latest Mesa graphics driver development code is enabling the VPE 2.0 engine to be found with future AMD Radeon GPUs...
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      Ubuntu Linux Will Begin Landing AI Features Throughout The Next Year

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 April 2026

    Now that Ubuntu 26.04 LTS has shipped, Canonical is opening up on their next major focus for Ubuntu development: lots of AI features...
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      D7VK v1.8 Continues Improving Legacy Direct3D Atop The Vulkan API

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 April 2026

    D7VK as what began as an implementation of the Direct3D 7 API on top of the Vulkan API, based off DXVK as part of Steam Play (Proton) for D3D8 through D3D11 support, continues enhancing its legacy D3D API support that over time has stretched now from D3D7 to D3D3...