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      Firefox 158 Now Available With JPEG-XL Support By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:25

    With Mozilla's bi-weekly release cycle for Firefox, the Firefox 158 release binaries are now available. Making Firefox 158 particularly notable is finally having JPEG-XL support enabled by default...
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      Linux 7.4 To Upstream Support For Three Snapdragon X2 Elite Laptops

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:16

    For those looking to run Linux on new Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 hardware, there are laptops from ASUS, HP, and Lenovo that are powered by the X2 Elite and will be supported with the mainline Linux 7.4 kernel...
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      Linus Torvalds "Did What I Preach", Used AI To Make Code Decipherable & Uncovered More Bugs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:00

    After using Claude Code to draft code to help make a fundamental improvement to the Linux kernel, Linux creator Linus Torvalds continued using AI this weekend and talking up its benefits. Beyond generating initial patches and a test program for that noted I/O enhancement, he separately talked up using AI/LLMs for making patches more decipherable to understand in the process the AI noted more long-standing bugs within the Linux kernel...
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      Intel Posts Updated Linux Driver Code For HDMI 2.1 FRL On Meteor Lake & Newer

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:44

    Following AMD completing their HDMI 2.1 implementation for the open-source AMDGPU Linux driver after beginning with HDMI FRL patches earlier in the year, Intel's open-source driver developers are following in their footsteps...
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      EXT4 Introducing IOmap Buffered I/O Path With Some Performance Gains

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:27

    EXT4 with the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel looks like it will introduce opt-in support for IOmap buffered I/O in replacing the file-system's buffer_head usage with IOmap...
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      Linux 7.3-rc7 Released With Linux 7.3 Hopefully Out Next Weekend

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8:44

    Linus Torvalds has made available what is hopefully the final release candidate before Linux 7.3 is ideally minted next Sunday...
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      Linus Torvalds Working On A Hefty Linux Kernel Improvement With Claude Code

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:16

    Linux creator Linus Torvalds has been known to use AI to help with kernel debugging and outside of the kernel tree has also done some vibe coding with Google's Antigravity. He has previously said he views AI as a useful tool. It turns out he's even now using Claude Code for working on new Linux kernel features...
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      Linux Landing Kernel Workaround For AMD TLBI Erratum #1718

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    AMD TLBI Erratum #1718 was worked around in CPU microcode for addressing a defect in certain Zen CPUs where the Translation Lookaside Buffer Invalidate Instruction use could lead to to stale translation entries. But for those on affected AMD CPUs and not running the updated microcode, a kernel workaround is being introduced with today's Linux 7.3-rc7 kernel and to be back-ported to prior kernel versions...
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      Microsoft Contributes Para-Virtualized IOMMU Hyper-V Driver For Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Microsoft is contributing a new kernel driver for the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle. Queued up into the IOMMU subsystem's "-next" branch is a new para-virtualized IOMMU driver for benefiting Linux guest VMs running on Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization platform...