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New Patch Can Boost Linux ZRAM Compression Performance By Over 50%The Linux ZRAM module for creating compressed block devices in RAM could be on the edge of a nice I/O compression performance boost...https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-ZRAM-50p-Compress-Boost
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Ubuntu's Snap Affected By Local Privilege Escalation VulnerabilityLast week it was security issues with AppArmor to worry about on Ubuntu Linux while this week a "high" rated vulnerability for Ubuntu's Snap daemon has been revealed...https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Snapd-High-Vulnerability
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KDE Merges Per-Screen Virtual Desktops After 21 YearsA request made a KDE user all the way back in June 2005 on KDE 3.3.2 is finally resolved. After being sought after for 21 years, the latest KWin code now has support for per-screen virtual desktops...https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Per-Screen-Virt-Desktops
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SDL Adds Policy To Forbid LLM/AI Generated Code ContributionsThe SDL library widely used by cross-platform games and part of the Steam Runtime has now established a policy to block code contributions made using AI / Large Language Models (LLMs)...https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL-Says-No-To-AI-LLMs
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GCC 16 Compiler Nearly Ready For Release With Zen 6, AVX10.2, APX & Algol 68GCC 16.1 as the first stable version of the GCC 16 compiler is nearly ready for its official debut as this year's major feature release for this open-source compiler...https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-16.1-Coming-Soon
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GCC Establishes Working Group To Decide On AI/LLM PolicyThe GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) now has a working group established by their steering committee to study the use of AI and large language models (LLMs) within the context of GCC compiler development...https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-Working-Group-AI-Policy
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Ubuntu Linux Will Begin Landing AI Features Throughout The Next YearNow that Ubuntu 26.04 LTS has shipped, Canonical is opening up on their next major focus for Ubuntu development: lots of AI features...https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-AI-Features-2026
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Valve Updates GameNetworkingSockets After Nearly Four Year HiatusBack in 2018, Valve open-sourced their Steam networking sockets library as a basic network transport layer for games. This library is used by games from Counter-Strike to Dota 2 and since its public open-source drop has been picked up elsewhere. Finally after going nearly four years without a new version, GameNetworkingSockets v1.5 dropped today...https://www.phoronix.com/news/GameNetworkingSockets-1.5
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Shotcut 26.4 Released With Timeline Improvements, Vulkan Accelerated Speech-To-TextShotcut 26.4.30 shipped today as the latest and greatest version of this open-source, cross-platform video editor...https://www.phoronix.com/news/Shotcut-26.4-Released
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AMD Posts HDMI 2.1 FRL Patches For Their AMDGPU Linux DriverIt's not complete HDMI 2.1 support but to much surprise hitting the mailing list today were official patches from AMD for implementing HDMI Fixed Rate Link "FRL" support for their kernel graphics driver. HDMI FRL as part of HDMI 2.1+ allows for higher bandwidth to support higher refresh rates and resolutions...https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-HDMI-2.1-FRL-Patches
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GCC 16 Produces Faster Binaries Than GCC 15, Competitive Race With LLVM Clang 22GCC 16.1 released at the end of April as the latest major, annual feature release to the GNU Compiler Collection. Early benchmarks showed some nice leads for GCC 16 over GCC 15. Continued testing of the new GCC 16 compiler has continued to show overall better performance of the resulting binaries than using GCC 15 on the same hardware and same compiler flags. That led many to wonder about t…https://www.phoronix.com/review/gcc-16-vs-clang-22
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Intel Introducing USB4STREAM Protocol For Linux - Opening Up Some Nifty Uses For USB4An exciting Intel innovation expected to be added for the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is introducing the new USB4STREAM protocol for USB4/Thunderbolt as a "super simple" way to "basically just transfer raw packets from one host to another". This can be useful for quickly backing up a system from one host to another, sharing of web cameras or other peripherals across systems, or other env…https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-USB4STREAM
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GTK Introduces Snapping Feature For Better Fractional Scaling ExperienceThe upcoming GTK 4.23.1 development release is introducing a new feature called Snapping, which should enhance the experience when dealing with fractional scaling on today's high resolution displays...https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK-Snapping
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NixOS 26.05 Released With 20,442 New Packages, Stage 1 Now Based On systemd By DefaultNixOS 26.05 is out today as the latest version of this Linux distribution built around the Nix package manager...https://www.phoronix.com/news/NixOS-26.05-Released
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GCC Steering Committee Supports Inclusion Of WebAssembly BackendLast month a new GCC back-end was proposed for WebAssembly to allow C/C++ code to be compiled to WASM with this GNU compiler toolchain. The GCC Steering Committee has evaluated it and approves the notion of WebAssembly back-end for GCC...https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-Steering-WebAssembly
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Linux Finally Ends AppleTalk Protocol SupportWhile the AppleTalk networking protocols were innovative when they first appeared for their plug-and-play capabilities, Apple itself ended their AppleTalk support back in 2009. Now 17 years later, the Linux kernel is ending AppleTalk support due to a recent surge of AI-generated patches...https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Drops-AppleTalk
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Open-Source Driver For ATI R300 Era GPUs Seeing Improved Power Mac Support In 2026For those that happen to still be running a 22+ year old Apple Power Mac such as those from 2004 with an IBM PowerPC processor and ATI Radeon 9600 XT or 9800 XT graphics, there are open-source driver improvements for Linux still happening in 2026 to benefit this vintage hardware...https://www.phoronix.com/news/ATI-R300-Big-Endian-2026
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KDE Plasma Affected By Arbitrary Code Execution To Break Sandboxes With "Open New Window"A security disclosure has been made public today for a yet-to-be-patched arbitrary code execution vulnerability with the KDE Plasma desktop...https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-ACE-New-Window
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Imagination PowerVR BXM-4-64 GPU Firmware Upstreamed For The T-Head TH1520Now in the upstream linux-firmware.git centralized repository is the firmware binary needed for enabling the Imagination Tech PowerVR BXM-4-64 Rogue GPU found with the Alibaba T-Head TH1520 SoC...https://www.phoronix.com/news/IMG-PowerVR-BXM-4-64-FW