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      OpenCV 5.0 Released With Rewritten DNN Engine, Built-In LLM & VLM Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:06

    OpenCV 5.0 released today as a major update to this widely-used, open-source computer vision (CV) library...
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      Valve Developer Posts New AMD Anti-Lag Implementation For RADV Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:15

    Daniel Schürmann of Valve's Linux team has posted a new VK_AMD_anti_lag implementation for the RADV open-source Radeon Vulkan driver...
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      Ape: A New Vulkan Driver Written In The Zig Programming Language

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:03

    Ape is a new open-source Vulkan driver written in the Zig programming language and not dependent upon any Mesa code...
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      KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Make Sure You Don't Miss Your Low Battery Notifications While Gaming

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:55

    KDE developers continue with last minute bug fixes ahead of the Plasma 6.7 desktop release later this month as well as preparing early feature work toward Plasma 6.8 and also landing more fixes for the current Plasma 6.6 stable series...
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      GNU Gets Back Into Nutrition Software After 14 Year Hiatus

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:36

    For those looking for open-source food nutrition software, GNU's GNUtrition has seen its first new release in 14 years...
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      Linux DRM Ioctl Developed By AMD Being Disabled Following Ongoing Security Issue

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:52

    It's unfortunately another busy week in the Linux 7.1 kernel space with not everything slowing down so well, late in the cycle and leading to the upcoming 7.1 stable release. This week's DRM pull request of kernel graphics/accelerator drivers is again heavy on fixes and also ends up disabling an ioctl interface given ongoing security concerns from that code merged last year...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 To Begin Laying Foundation For Context-Aware Desktop, Other New Features

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    Jean Baptiste Lallement of the Canonical Desktop Team today posted a roadmap of many development items they are hoping to tackle for Ubuntu 26.10 due out in October. Some of these desktop plans are more ambitious and will take multiple release cycles to fully realize, but it goes to show their continued investment into the Ubuntu desktop...
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      CUDA-Oxide 0.2 Brings Early Improvements To Pure Rust CUDA Kernels

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    Last month CUDA-Oxide was introduced as an experimental Rust-to-CUDA compiler. From pure Rust programming language code, one can write CUDA GPU kernels in a "safe(ish)" manner with the CUDA-Oxide compiler emitting NVIDIA PTX output directly. Out today is the second update to CUDA-Oxide...
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      ARM Linux Server Performance Up More Than 7x Geo Mean In 8 Years, As Much As 15x With NVIDIA Vera CPU

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    NVIDIA's Vera CPU is delivering the fastest ARM performance I have ever seen. For putting it into perspective how far the ARM server CPU hardware has come in just the last decade and for some "fun" benchmarks as part of Phoronix marking 22 years of Linux hardware reviews and benchmarking, here are some benchmarks showing the Ampere eMAG from September 2018 to the performance now with NVIDIA Vera. Not even factoring in the many software optimizations across the stack over the period, from simply the hardware side the ARM server CPU performance has advanced by more than 7x in eight years and in some workloads nearly 15x faster.