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      Linux 7.3 Merges Initial Kernel Driver Support For The 2026 Steam Controller

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:33

    The HID subsystem updates were recently merged for the ongoing Linux 7.3 kernel merge window. Among other hardware additions, the 2026 Valve Steam Controller is seeing initial kernel driver support...
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      Linux ath11k Driver Improvements For Qualcomm WiFi 6 Hardware Yields 7x Lower Latency

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 hours ago

    A patch series being worked on for the ath11k mainline wireless networking driver for Qualcomm WiFi 6 / 802.11ax chipsets is yielding 7x lower latency or 2.2x throughput at identical latency...
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      New AF_ALG Restrictions With Linux 7.3 Due To The Security & Maintenance Nightmare

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 hours ago

    The past few Linux kernel cycles have chipped away at AF_ALG functionality for that interface for user-space programs to access the kernel's internal cryptography API. Linux has been dropping AF_ALG features like zero-copy support and offloading. AF_ALG was quickly deprecated in Linux 7.2 while now for Linux 7.3 it's being further restricted...
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      Mozilla Presents Their Plan For Shipping JPEG-XL In Firefox 157

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    While Firefox 152+ already offers experimental JPEG-XL support, Mozilla formally announced today their plans for officially shipping JPEG-XL image format support in the Firefox web browser...
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      Early Linux 7.3 Kernel Benchmarks Show Some Performance Improvements, Some Regressions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    Being halfway through the Linux 7.3 kernel merge window and prior to wrapping up and sending back the HP Z4 G6i workstation powered by the Xeon 678X Granite Rapids WS processor, I decided to run some benchmarks to see how Linux 7.3 Git is performing relative to the prior stable kernel series. Here are the first benchmarks of this early state of Linux 7.3 with some performance improvements as well as some regressions.
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      GNU Emacs 31.1 Released With Mouse Control Enabled By Default, Theme For New Users

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    GNU Emacs 31.1 is out today as the newest feature release to this popular text editor...
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      VKD3D 2.1 Released With New Features For Direct3D 12 In Upstream Wine

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    VKD3D 2.1 was released today by CodeWeavers' Henri Verbeet as the upstream Wine project for getting Direct3D 12 implemented over the Vulkan API...
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      Intel Engineers Propose DRM Fabric For Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    Coincidentally just days after AMD posted their big UALink patch series for Linux, Intel engineers today announced a proposal called DRM Fabric...
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      Linux 7.3 Adds Support For Several Newer RISC-V Extensions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    With the in-development Linux 7.3 is support for discovering and enumerating support for several newer RISC-V ISA extensions. Plus there are improvements to its control flow integrity Shadow Stack handling, CPU context switch support for QoS tagging, using UEFI runtime services for restart and powering off, and other improvements...