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      AMD's GAIA Local AI Now Able To Transcribe & Summarize Meeting Recordings

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:19

    AMD's GAIA software for building AI agents on your PC and leveraging generative AI locally with the power of AMD Ryzen and Radeon hardware continues becoming more featureful. Out today is AMD GAIA 0.24/0.24.1 and with it comes the ability to transcribe and summarize meeting recordings locally along with other functionality...
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      OpenVDB Introduces SIMD Framework With Some 2~4x Performance Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:05

    OpenVDB is the sparse volume data structure and tooling library maintained by the Academy Software Foundation. OpenVDB in turn is used by various CGI software for dealing with sparse volumetric data such as Houdini, RenderMan, and Cinema 4D to the open-source Blender. It's even won an Academy Award for technical achievement while now in 2026 it's finally establishing a SIMD framework for better leveraging modern x86 ISA capabilities...
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      Linux 7.4 Slated To Land The AVX-512 Optimized xor_gen For A Big Performance Win

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:53

    Over the past few months there have been patches floating around for an AVX-512 optimized xor_gen() for the Linux kernel for that functuon used by the Linux software RAID code. It's been shhowing very nice performance gains with this function being used for generating and validating parity blocks such as for RAID5 and RAID6. The upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle is slated to merge this nice enhancement for benefiting AMD Zen 4 and newer or current Intel server CPUs with AVX-512...
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      AMD P-State Driver For Linux 7.4 Will Tune For Zen 6 Client CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    Linux 7.4 looks like it will be a very exciting kernel update for AMD customers. On the AMD Radeon graphics side HDMI 2.1 is being enabled by default with the AMDGPU driver with the HDMI FreeSync, VRR, and ALLM features in tow. On the AMD Ryzen client CPU side, there will be Zen 6 tuning with the AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver...
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      SDL3 Ported To HarmonyOS / OpenHarmony

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    The SDL3 library commonly used for games and applications for cross-platform hardware and software abstractions now has upstream support for Huawei's HarmonyOS and OpenHarmony...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 Set To Deliver Better Performance For Intel Core 3 Wildcat Lake

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    While Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is working fine out-of-the-box on new Intel Core 3 "Wildcat Lake" laptops like the CHUWI UniBook, next month's release of Ubuntu 26.10 will help deliver better performance out of these low-cost laptop options.
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      Fedora 45 Beta Released With KMSCON Console, GNOME 51 & Other Updates

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    The beta release of Fedora 45 is out today and right on schedule for this wonderful Linux distribution...
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      Java 27 Reaches GA With The G1 Garbage Collector By Default Everywhere

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    Oracle christened Java 27 today with the OpenJDK 27 release reaching general availability (GA) status...
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      Sound Open Firmware 2.15 Released With AMD ACP 7.x Support, Intel UAOL

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    Sound Open Firmware as the open-source, vendor-independent audio DSP firmware stack and driver framework is out today with a new feature update...