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      GTK Developers Working On Session Saving Support & Better Accessibility This Year

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 February 2026

    GTK toolkit developers met in Brussels once again for their annual hackfest during FOSDEM week...
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      Qualcomm QUPv3 Firmware Upstreamed For Snapdragon X1 Elite Linux Users

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 February 2026

    One of the headaches right now when dealing with the Snapdragon X Elite on Linux is that for a majority of the devices you need to fetch firmware files from the Windows 11 on ARM partition as the necessary firmware bits for Linux use aren't upstreamed to linux-firmware.git. That has gradually improved over time from the qcom-firmware-extract making the process easier to more firmware bits eventually being added to linux-firmware.git...
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      3mdeb Talks Up AMD openSIL & Open-Source Firmware Efforts For Confidential Compute

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 February 2026

    Engineers Michał Żygowski and Piotr Król of open-source firmware consulting firm 3mdeb presented at FOSDEM in Brussels on open-source for confidential compute infrastructure. With Intel not making strides to fully open-up their FSP package, the talk was centered around the modern AMD open-source firmware efforts led by their openSIL initiative for open-source CPU silicon initialization to replace AGESA in the Zen 6 timeframe...
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      GNU Nettle 4.0 Released With SLH-DSA Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 February 2026

    The GNU Nettle cryptographic library is out with a major new update that introduces support for SLH-DSA, the post-quantum signature scheme selected by NIST for the FIPS 205 standard...
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      Ardour 9.0 Audio Workstation Released With Multi-Touch GUI, Many New Features

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 February 2026

    Ardour 9.0 is out today as the latest major feature release to this leading open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software for musicians, recording engineers, and other audio editing needs...
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      Intel Xe Linux Driver Will No Longer Block D3cold For All Battlemage GPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 February 2026

    Merged a year ago to the Linux kernel's Xe graphics driver was a change to disable D3Cold across all Battlemage GPUs. This was done due instability issues around the D3cold to D0 power state transition. Finally with the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel cycle that restriction is being loosened with restoring D3cold support with Battlemage GPUs aside from a specific NUC...
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      Debian's CI Data No Longer Publicly Browseable Due To LLM Scrapers / Bot Traffic

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 February 2026

    LLM scrapers for AI are even hungry for Debian's continuous integration "CI" data. Due to the ongoing abuse of the open web by LLM scrapers, the Debian CI infrastructure is restricting the publicly accessible data with their web server resources being hammered by bots/scrapers...
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      Intel Arc B390 Graphics Performance On Linux With Panther Lake

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 February 2026

    Yesterday was our first look at the Intel Panther Lake Linux performance with the Core Ultra X7 358H and focused on the CPU performance. In today's benchmarking is a look at the very exciting Xe3 graphics found with the top-tier Panther Lake models: the Arc B390 Graphics with 12 Xe cores.
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      TrueNAS 26 Looks Toward OpenZFS 2.4, Linux 6.18 LTS & LXC Container Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 February 2026

    Following the release of TrueNAS 25.10 for this Linux-based, OpenZFS-running operating system focused on network appliances / storage devices, iX systems has shared some of their plans for TrueNAS 26 this year...