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      Ubuntu's Myna Speech-To-Text Now Available In Tech Preview

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17:31

    A few months ago Canonical announced Myna as a speech-to-text solution for Ubuntu 26.10 as part of their effort for building a context-aware desktop. Myna as of today is available in "tech preview" form not only for Ubuntu 26.10 but also the LTS releases...
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      ROCm 10 OpenCL vs. Mesa 26.3-dev Rusticl Performance On AMD Strix Halo

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:32

    With all the recent progress on Mesa's Rusticl driver as a Rust-based OpenCL driver working across the different Mesa Gallium3D hardware drivers, a Phoronix Premium supporter inquired about seeing some fresh benchmarks of this open-source OpenCL solution. Here is a look at how the Mesa 26.3 Rusticl driver is looking against AMD's official OpenCL driver within ROCm 10.
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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...