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      The Last Of The Dolby Digital Plus "E-AC3" Patents Might Now Be Expired

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 January 2026

    For those interested in the Dolby Digital Plus "Enhanced AC-3" audio compression format for open-source software, the last of the patents for this widely-used format by streaming services and more appears to have expired...
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      GTK Developers Plot Improvements To Tackle This Year - Possible Opt-In Unstable API

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 January 2026

    GNOME developers had a busy week in preparing for the GNOME 50 beta release, many GNOME developers attending FOSDEM this weekend in Brussels, and other happenings...
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      AI Code Review Prompts Initiative Making Progress For The Linux Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 January 2026

    Chris Mason, the longtime Linux kernel developer most known for being the creator of Btrfs, has been working on a Git repository with AI review prompts he has been working on for LLM-assisted code review of Linux kernel patches. This initiative has been happening for some weeks now while the latest work was posted today for comments...
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      Ubuntu 26.04 Resolute Snapshot 3 Released For Testing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 January 2026

    Resolute Snapshot 3 is now available as the newest monthly test candidate leading up the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release in April...
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      Microsoft Working On Improved vCPU Scheduler Support For Hyper-V Linux VMs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 January 2026

    Microsoft posted a patch series for introducing Hyper-V integrated scheduler support into the Linux kernel for enhancing vCPU scheduling behavior for virtual machines running within Microsoft's virtualized environment...
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      DDR5-4800 vs. DDR5-6000 Performance With The AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D In 300+ Benchmarks

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 January 2026

    With the incredible market demand around DDR5 memory and significantly elevated pricing on the more premium DDR5 memory modules, as part of the AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D launch there's been some communication that thanks to 2nd Gen AMD 3D V-Cache, using lower memory speeds like DDR5-4800 can be suitable without much of an impact to the gaming performance. But what about for Linux gaming? And other workloads with the Ryzen 7 9850X3D? Complementing yesterday's Linux review of the Ryzen 7 9850X3D are benchmarks of DDR5-4800 vs. DDR5-6000 performance with Ubuntu Linux and this new 3D V-Cache 8-core / 16-thread desktop processor.
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      Libcamera 0.7 Released - GPU Acceleration Support For SoftISP Delivers 15x Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 January 2026

    Libcamera 0.7 was published today for this modern software library for image signal processors (ISPs) and embedded cameras under Linux. The standout change with libcamera 0.7 is initial plumbing for GPU acceleration in the software ISP "SoftISP" for delivering better performance than just CPU-based...
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      IO_uring Zero-Copy Large Receive Buffer Support To Provide A Nice Performance Win

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 January 2026

    Slated for introduction in the next kernel cycle (Linux 6.20~7.0) is introducing large receive buffer support for IO_uring's zero-copy receive code path. This large receive buffer support can be very beneficial for those with higher-end networking hardware capable of handling the larger buffers for some significant performance and efficiency wins...
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      Libgcrypt 1.12 Released With VAES/AVX-512 Accelerated AES: 2x Performance On AMD Zen 5

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 January 2026

    Werner Koch released libgcrypt 1.12 as the newest feature release to this library providing the cryptographic building blocks used by GnuPG and other software like email clients, file encryption utilities, and other software...