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AMD MLIR-AIE Releases New AIECC C++ Compiler To Help Bring New Workloads To Ryzen AI NPUs AMD Ryzen AI NPUs are now running LLMs on Linux with the recently debuted Lemonade 10.0 server and FastFlowLM 0.9.35 adding Linux support. In addition to those software components, AMD engineers have also been developing MLIR-AIE as a compiler toolchain for AMD AI Engine devices such as Ryzen AI NPUs in leveraging LLVM-based code generation with the Multi-Level Intermediate Representation (MLIR). Out today is MLIR-AIE v1.3 with some notable new features... https://www.phoronix.com/news/MLIR-AIE-1.3

AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 Begins Supporting RISC-V The community-focused, RHEL/CentOS-derived AlmaLinux distribution announced its support today for the RISC-V CPU ISA with AlmaLinux Kitten 10 builds being made available... https://www.phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-Adds-RISC-V

Microsoft, OpenAI & Others Pony Up $12.5M To Strengthen Open-Source Security The Linux Foundation announced today that $12.5 million USD in grants from the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, GitHub, Google, and Microsoft have been collected to invest in strengthening the security of the open-source software ecosystem... https://www.phoronix.com/news/12.5M-Better-OSS-Security

NVIDIA 595.44.03 Linux Driver Released With VK_KHR_device_address_commands Less than a week after their prior NVIDIA Vulkan beta driver in the R595 driver series, today NVIDIA released another new Vulkan beta driver for Linux and Windows systems... https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-595.44.03-Linux

FreeRDP 3.24 Released With Security Fixes & Improved X11 Client Support FreeRDP as this open-source and cross-platform Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementation is out with FreeRDP 3.24 to ship new security fixes as well as other improvements... https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeRDP-3.24-Released

Linux 7.0 AMDGPU Fixing Idle Power Issue For RDNA4 GPUs After Compute Workloads A fix is on the way to the Linux 7.0 kernel today for addressing an idle power issue with AMD RDNA4 GPUs reporting high power consumption and full utilization even after being "idle" following compute workloads like Llama.cpp... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7-Fix-Idle-RDNA4-Compute

Linux 7.0 AMDGPU Fixing Idle Power Issue For RDNA4 GPUs After Compute Workloads A fix is on the way to the Linux 7.0 kernel today for addressing an idle power issue with AMD RDNA4 GPUs reporting high power consumption and full utilization even after being "idle" following compute workloads like Llama.cpp... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7-Fix-Idle-RDNA4-Compute

GNOME Infrastructure Now Battling Bots & AI Scrapers Using Fastly GNOME's GitLab infrastructure has already been using Anubis for a while to help fend off bots and AI scraper traffic from wreacking havoc on their server resources and also their hosting budget. GNOME recently began redirecting some GitLab traffic to their GitHub repositories as another step in dealing with bots/scrapers. Now they have taken an added step of using the commercial, closed-source Fastly in their battle with bots... https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-GitLab-Fastly

TrueNAS Connect Announced For Offering Enterprise Features Without The Hardware Last year TrueNAS unified their SCALE and CORE offerings as part of solidifying their enterprise storage efforts around Linux from their prior FreeBSD base. This year the developers at iXsystems have another change in store with announcing TrueNAS Connect as a new bridge for accessing TrueNAS enterprise storage features without having to invest in their hardware... https://www.phoronix.com/news/TrueNAS-Connect-2026

Ubuntu's AppArmor Hit By Several Security Issues - Can Yield Local Privilege Escalation The AppArmor Linux kernel security module used notably by Ubuntu Linux and currently maintained by Canonical has been affected by several vulnerabilities made public today... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-AppArmor-Security-Is…

systemd 260-rc3 Released With AI Agents Documentation Added The first release candidate of systemd 260 arrived in late February with the new mstack feature, dropping System V service scripts support, and other changes. A week after that systemd 260-rc2 released with a few more changes and now another week later is systemd 260-rc3... https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-260-rc3

AMD ZenDNN 5.2 Brings A Major Redesign, AOCC 5.1 Recently Released AMD today released ZenDNN 5.2 as the latest versio nof their deep nueral network library that now introduces their next-generation runtime architecture. ZenDNN 5.2 is designed to deliver better performance and geater scalability over earlier versions of this AMD library that began as their take on Intel's open-source oneDNN... https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ZenDNN-5.2-Released

Intel CPU Security Mitigation Costs From Haswell Through Panther Lake Over the past month on Phoronix there have been a lot of benchmarks of Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" with the Core Ultra X7 358H. One of the areas of Panther Lake not explored yet is around the CPU security mitigation impact, which is the focus of today's benchmarking. The performance tests today are not only looking at the impact of the Core Ultra X7 SoC at its default versus running in a "mitigations=off" configuration but also comparing the overall CPU security mitigation impact with the run-time toggle going back all the way to Intel Haswell era laptops. https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-panther-lake-mitiga…

AMD HDR/Color Improvement For Their Linux Driver & KDE - Co-Developed By Claude Code Introduced with Linux 6.19 was the long in development DRM Color Pipeline API while it's not the end of the road yet on enhancing the Linux desktop for modern high dynamic range (HDR) displays and color pipeline handling. AMD engineer Harry Wentland has more improvements pending for the AMDGPU driver as well as example compositor/desktop-side integration with KDE's KWin... https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-More-HDR-KWin-Claude-Code

Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Finally Lands VK_KHR_copy_memory_indirect In Mesa 26.1 the Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has finally landed support for the VK_KHR_copy_memory_indirect extension that was introduced to the Vulkan API last year... https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-KHR_copy_memory_indirect

Mesa 26.0.2 Has Plenty Of Graphics Driver Fixes From Intel & RADV Vulkan To Old R300g Mesa 26.0.2 is now available as the latest bi-weekly stable point release for this set of open-source graphics drivers predominantly used on Linux systems... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.0.2-Released

Fwupd 2.1.1 Released With Lots Of New Hardware Support Richard Hughes of Red Hat just announced the release of Fwupd 2.1.1 as the newest feature update to this solution for deploying system firmware updates and other device/peripheral firmware updates under Linux. Paired with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS), Fwupd has made firmware updating a breeze on Linux for an increasing number of devices... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fwupd-2.1.1-Released

Azure Linux 3.0 Enables Core Scheduling, More Tracing Capabilities Microsoft on Tuesday released Azure Linux 3.0.20260304 as the newest monhtly update to their in-house Linux platform... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Azure-Linux-3.0.20260304

NVIDIA Adds Official Support For RHEL-Compatible Distributions Like AlmaLinux With CUDA 13.2 With CUDA 13.2 that is now shipping, NVIDIA has provided official support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux compatible distributions/downstreams like AlmaLinux to CUDA. With this official NVIDIA CUDA support for these RHEL-compatible distributions, NVIDIA is also allowing the NVIDIA packages to be distributed directly from the OS package repositories... https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Official-RHEL-Compat

Intel Publishes XeSS 3 SDK To GitHub - Still As Windows-Only Binaries Intel just published the XeSS 3.0 SDK to GitHub as the newest version of their Xe Super Sampling AI-enhanced upscaling technology for gamers. Sadly though it remains proprietary software and only with native support for Windows... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-XeSS-3-SDK-GitHub