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      FFmpeg Introduces Vulkan-Accelerated 360 Degree Video Conversion

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 April 2026

    Beyond the capabilities of just the Vulkan Video API, the FFmpeg multimedia library has made interesting Vulkan-accelerated adaptations using compute shaders. With Vulkan compute they've implemented Apple ProRes video acceleration, FFV1 decode, and other features. The newest Vulkan feature now in place for FFmpeg is 360 degree video conversion...
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      AMD Making It Easier To Embed Lemonade AI Capabilities Into Other Apps

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 April 2026

    The open-source Lemonade local AI server that enables using Ryzen AI NPUs on Linux for LLM usage as well as AMD Radeon GPU support and common x86_64 CPU support (in addition to Microsoft Windows support) is now becoming easier to embed within other apps for AI usage...
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      RADV Lands Support For Vulkan's New Primitive Restart Index Extension

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 April 2026

    The newest Vulkan API extension now wired up for Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is VK_EXT_primitive_restart_index that was introduced last week...
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      Mir-Based Miracle-WM 0.9 Introduces A WebAssembly Plugin System

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 April 2026

    Miracle-WM as the Wayland compositor / window manager built atop Canonical's Mir project is out with a big new feature release. This "hackable" and i3/Sway-inspired Wayland compositor has landed a WebAssembly-based plug-in system for opening up new possibilities as well as a new Rust API with this week's v0.9 release...
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      Linux 7.0 Adds Support For New Keys On Upcoming Laptops For Expanded AI Agent Interactions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 April 2026

    Since last year the Linux kernel already supported the Microsoft Copilot key appearing on recent laptops to trigger AI agent interactions. That keyboard key is becoming more common but now three additional new keys have been standardized for additional AI integration on future PCs. Merged today for Linux 7.0 is supporting those new standardized keycodes for AI use...
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      TrueNAS 26 Beta Brings Linux 6.18 LTS + OpenZFS 2.4 Combination For NAS Devices

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 April 2026

    TrueNAS 26 Beta released today as the initial test release for this next version of this Linux-based operating system for network attached storage (NAS) devices and more...
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      Redox OS Establishes AI Policy To Forbid Contributions Made Using LLMs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 April 2026

    The Rust-based Redox OS open-source operating system provided a status update on all of their interesting development activities during the month of March. In addition to a lot of code improvements, Redox OS also enhanced its documentation as well as added an AI policy to reject any contributions relying on large language models...
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      AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 To Be Priced At $899 USD

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 April 2026

    At the end of March AMD announced the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor with both dies having 3D V-Cache. This 16 core processor with 206MB of total cache is quit exciting and will be on sale later this month but AMD refrained from commenting on the price until today...
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      Intel Arc Pro B70 Benchmarks With LLM / AI, OpenCL, OpenGL & Vulkan

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 April 2026

    Last month Intel announced the Arc Pro B70 with 32GB of GDDR6 video memory for this long-awaited Battlemage G31 graphics card. This new top-end Battlemage graphics card with 32 Xe cores and 32GB of GDDR6 video memory offers a lot of potential for LLM/AI and other use cases, especially when running multiple Arc Pro B70s. Last week Intel sent over four Arc Pro B70 graphics cards for Linux testing at Phoronix. Given the current re-testing for the imminent Ubuntu 26.04 release, I am still going through all of the benchmarks especially for the multi-GPU scenarios. In this article are some initial Arc Pro B70 single card benchmarks on Linux compared to other Intel Arc Graphics hardware across AI / LLM with OpenVINO and Llama.cpp, OpenCL compute benchmarks, and also some OpenGL and Vulkan benchmarks. More benchmarks and the competitive compares will come as that fresh testing wraps up, but so far the Arc Pro B70 is working out rather well atop the fully open-source Linux graphics driver stack.