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      Patches Updated To Begin Removing The Linux x32 ABI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:09

    Linux developers are once again considering the removal of the Linux x32 ABI...
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      Google's Sashiko AI Has Completed 191k Patch Reviews, Cited On Nearly 500 Kernel CVEs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:18

    Sashiko that was built by Google engineers for agentic review of the Linux kernel code changes and powered by Google's AI models continues proving very valuable to kernel developers. In less than one year since they launched Sashiko for agentic AI code review, their results are quite fascinating...
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      SpacemiT RISC-V SoCs To See More Improvements With Linux 7.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:13

    For those interested in the SpacemiT K3 as one of the few RVA23 RISC-V SoCs readily available so far and in the likes of the K3 Pico-ITX system, more improvements for its upstream kernel support are coming in Linux 7.4...
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      Google Working To Leverage More Compiler Optimizations Within The Linux Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:57

    While Linus Torvalds previously shot down plans for Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) in the mainline Linux kernel, Google engineers are hoping still to get that out-of-tree functionality upstream. They also would like to see PGO supported for Linux kernel modules rather than just the main Linux kernel image. Additionally, they hope to see limitations overcome around AutoFDO and Propeller optimizations of kernel modules...
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      Steam Beta Now Defaults Non-Steam Windows Binaries To Using Proton

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1:09

    Valve released tonight a new Steam client beta that includes some notable improvements for Linux users...
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      Microsoft Issues First Release Of Their LiteBox Sandboxing Library OS

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:43

    Back in February we featured LiteBox as a new Microsoft open-source project building out a Rust-based sandboxing Library OS. LiteBox leverages Linux virtualization security features and Rust language inherent benefits to provide the ability for sandboxing Linux apps on Linux, Linux programs on Windows, and other security-oriented deployments. Out today is the first tagged release of LiteBox for this open-source library operating system...
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      AI Makes "Open-Source, Clean Room" Implementations Of Adobe Photoshop & Premier In Rust

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:12

    As an interesting demonstrator for the power of AI and potentially pressing legal challenges, Claude Code and AI agents have created "open-source, clean-room reimplementation" versions of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premier, and Adobe Lightroom. These new creations from the ArtCraft project are implemented in the Rust programming language...
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      FEX 2610 Released With Handling For AVX-VNNI, Disk Cache Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    FEX 2610 released today as the newest monthly release of this open-source emulator for running x86_64 games/apps on AArch64 for ARM64 Linux systems, including most notably by Valve's Steam Frame headset...
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      Star Labs StarFighter Ultra: A Modern High-End Linux Laptop With Coreboot

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    When it comes to Linux pre-loaded laptops, I have looked at hardware from most of these vendors over the past 22+ years of Phoronix. One vendor I haven't had the chance to personally test until now is the UK-based Star Labs. That changed recently and over the past few weeks I have been testing out their new StarFighter laptop that offers great Linux support and comes pre-loaded with Coreboot and streamlined firmware updates via LVFS. For those after a high-end mobile workstation, the Star Labs StarFighter offers a lot of performance potential while being open-source friendly and with Coreboot in tow.