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      NetworkManager Works To Enforce AI Policy By Tricking AI Agents To Add A Canary

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:52

    Last month the NetworkManager project adopted an AI coding policy where authors are responsible for 100% of the code they submit and must be able to explain it all. In an attempt to catch AI coding agents that may be trying to bypass their policy, they have added an interesting canary to the project to try to catch such AI-generated patches so they can then be automatically dealt with...
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      PoCL 7.2 Released With Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance On RISC-V & x86_64 CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:33

    The Portable Computing Language project is out today with PoCL 7.2 as this portable, MIT-licensed OpenCL implementation that runs across various CPU architectures as well as targeting other GPUs/hardware with LLVM back-ends. Notable with PoCL 7.2 is bringing official OpenCL 3.0 conformance on x86_64 and RISC-V processors...
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      XDC 2026 Will Feature Many Interesting Talks: Vulkan Gallium, OpenCL On CUDA & More

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:05

    The annual X.Org Developer's Conference "XDC 2026" is happening later this month in Toronto. A great number of interesting talks are planned this year from new Wayland features to OpenCL over CUDA, the possibility of Vulkan Gallium, and a lot of exciting driver developments...
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      Linux 7.4 To Improve Apple Silicon Audio Support & Its "Impossible" Power Management

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:13

    The Apple Silicon audio driver code within the Linux kernel is preparing to make use of the recent shared GPIO infrastructure for allowing multiple drivers / kernel components to nicely share the same GPIO lines. This should help clean things up in the mainline kernel for the Apple Silicon audio support and with a cleaner architecture than the current downstream Asahi Linux code...
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      Fedora 47 Considering Use Of Thin LTO Compiler Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:32

    A change proposal filed for what would be part of Fedora Linux 47 is on making use of Thin LTO rather than Fat LTO for link-time optimizations. With Thin LTO being more memory efficient and faster build speeds, the hope is that more Fedora packages could also use Thin LTO for packages where no link-time optimizations are currently leveraged...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 3 Monthly ISOs Released For Testing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:15

    Released tonight is Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" Snapshot 3 as the newest monthly ISO candidates for Ubuntu Linux...
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      Amazon Linux 2027 Now in Preview: Powered By Linux 7.1, x86-64-v3 & Built With LTO

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    AWS announced today the public preview of Amazon Linux 2027. Given the time since Amazon Linux 2023, Amazon Linux 2027 comes with a heavy arsenal of software updates as well as many performance optimizations and other tuning for better running workloads geared for the AWS cloud...
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      Intel Improving Its Content Match Refresh Rate "CMRR" Feature With Linux 7.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    Introduced with the Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics hardware was support for Content Match Refresh Rate (CMRR) as an improvement over typical Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) / Adaptive-Sync to more precisely match the video or content frame rates. Particularly for video playback it aims for no stuttering or frame drops. With the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel will be better support for CMRR with the Intel graphics driver...
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      Mir 2.29 Released With Additional Wayland Protocols

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    For those using Canonical's Mir compositor for building Wayland-based shells, Mir 2.29 is now available with various improvements and new Wayland protocol coverage...