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      AMD ROCm 7.14 Announced As New Production Release, Ryzen AI 400 Series Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2:30

    As a follow-up to the article over ROCm 7.14 being tagged, AMD has formally announced the availability of ROCm 7.14 and it's their new production release rather than being a tech preview...
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      AMD ROCm 7.14 "TheRock" Tech Preview Tagged For Latest AMD GPU Compute Stack

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:21

    AMD's software team appears to be busy getting ready for next week's Advancing AI event happening next week in San Francisco. In addition to the release today of the Lemonade 11.0 local AI server, TheRock 7.14 was also tagged as the modern build system for ROCm working on the latest tech preview releases of this open-source AMD GPU compute stack...
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      Mesa 26.2-rc1 Released In Ending Feature Work For This Quarter's 3D Graphics Stack

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    Mesa 26.2 was branched today from Mesa Git and in turn Mesa 26.3-devel is now open on mainline...
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      AMD Releases Lemonade 11.0 Local AI Server With Text-To-Speech, Other New Features

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    Ahead of the AMD Advancing AI event next week, today AMD released Lemonade 11.0 as the latest feature release of their local AI server supporting AMD Ryzen CPUs, AMD Radeon GPUs, and AMD Ryzen AI NPU acceleration...
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      Ubuntu 26.04 LTS vs. Windows 11 vs. CachyOS Performance On A $5399 Laptop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    Earlier this month on Phoronix I reviewed the Razer Blade 18 RZ09-0582 as the first laptop Razer is certifying for Linux use via Canonical's hardware certification program for Linux. It offered very nice performance with the Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics albeit costly with a configured price of $5399 USD. That review featured benchmarks on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS but for those wondering about the performance of Ubuntu against Windows 11 on this gaming/AI developer laptop, here are comparison benchmarks plus also tossing in the rolling-release CachyOS distribution.
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      Linux Patches Finally Allow Apple Magic Keyboard/Mouse Battery Monitoring Via Bluetooth

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    Besides the ongoing challenges of enabling newer Apple Silicon SoC support on Linux, Apple peripheral support on Linux remains a mixed bag depending on the product as well. The latest functionality now being addressed is for having battery reporting work for the Apple Magic Mouse and Magic Keyboard when connected via Bluetooth...
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      Linus Torvalds Reaffirms That Linux Is Not "Anti-AI" & Not A "Social Warrior" Project

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 hours ago

    Overnight Linux creator Linus Torvalds wrote another well crafted message that reaffirms the Linux kernel position of not being against AI and lashing back against some kernel developers that are against AI/LLM usage within the kernel project...
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      Vocalinux 0.14 Beta Released For Offline Voice Dictation / Speech-To-Text On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 hours ago

    Ubuntu 26.10 is notably working on laying the foundation for a context-aware desktop and their initial deliverable being worked on is Myna as a speech-to-text solution for the Linux desktop. Interestingly there is already a promising voice dictation / speech-to-text solution for the Linux desktop called Vocalinux that continues advancing and is usable right now for those looking at their own speech-to-text desktop solution...
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      FreeBSD Laptop Support Continues Improving With WiFi, GPU & Audio Driver Work

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 hours ago

    The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Project, which has received more than $750k USD in funding to improve the experience of FreeBSD on laptops, is out with its newest monthly progress report. A lot continues to happen for improving the FreeBSD laptop story, which in many aspects also benefits FreeBSD on the desktop too...