Imagination Tech was at XDC 2026 Toronto this week to talk up their ongoing work around their PowerVR Mesa Vulkan driver (and PVR upstream DRM kernel driver) with this driver continuing to improve, plans for supporting their new Volcanic GPU architecture, and other improvements…
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Intel Iris Open-Source Driver Now Supports Efficient 64-bit Addressing Mode
As a follow-up to the news one month ago of Intel Nova Lake P’s graphics introducing a new 64-bit GPU mode, the latest driver-side enablement has now landed for Intel’s Iris Gallium3D OpenGL driver for supporting efficient 64-bit addressing…
New Spectre-v2 BTR Attack Can Leak Linux Kernel Memory
Researchers reveal Branch Target Reuse, a new Spectre-v2 attack that exploits stale branch predictions to leak arbitrary Linux kernel memory.
Ubuntu’s Next Rust Effort May See OpenPGP Replaced By Sequoia PGP
Canonical engineer Richard Scott McNew published a status update surrounding the Rust programming language efforts in the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release. Sequoia PGP is being rolled out to Ubuntu Linux and in a future release may end up replacing OpenPGP…
Apex Compute Developing Open-Source Mesa Vulkan Driver For Their Hardware
Apex Compute is the company started in California in 2024 that aims to produce high-efficiency AI accelerators for real-time edge AI inferencing. So far they have an FPGA prototype for licensing and deployment and carries the bold claim of being “20x faster than the NVIDIA Jetson” and at under 10W and one fifth the cost. Making Apex Compute much more interesting to us now is that they are developing an open-source, Mesa-based Vulkan driver for their hardware…
Coreboot 26.09 Released With Framework Laptop 12 Support, AI Review Comment Policy
Coreboot 26.09 released yesterday as the latest quarterly feature release to this open-source software for replacing proprietary BIOS and system firmware on a growing selection of devices…
The EU Is About to Make Linux’s Vulnerability Management Problem Harder to Ignore
More CVEs, sprawling deployments, and new EU reporting rules are turning vulnerability management into a matter of evidence as well as patching.
KDE Nearing Decision Point On BuildStream-Based KDE Linux
KDE Linux developers have been experimenting with a build of their Linux distribution based on BuildStream to ship as an OS image rather than a set of Arch Linux packages. They are nearing a point soon where they will decide if they will officially ship this BuildStream-based KDE Linux image…
Rust 1.99 Released With C Variadic Functions, New Stable APIs
Rust 1.99 adds support for defining C-compatible variadic functions, expands raw pointer layout APIs, and stabilizes a new batch of standard library features.
Systemd-Free Nitrux 7.0 Released with Linux Kernel 7.2 and Hyprland 0.55.4
Nitrux 7.0 immutable, systemd-free GNU/Linux distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 7.2, Hyprland 0.55.4, Maui Apps 4.0.4, an updated Calamares installer, and other changes.
Fedora 45 Beta Performance: The Satisfyingly Boring Benchmarks
While there have been a number of Ubuntu 26.10 development benchmarks in recent weeks and more on the way, some Phoronix readers have asked about the lack of any early Fedora 45 tests given its recent beta. For good reason, it’s largely boring but here are some to illustrate.
How to Install, Update, and Run Go on Linux
In this article, you will learn how to install Go (Golang) on your preferred Linux distribution via the package manager or source code, with practical examples.
Siemens Slams The Door Shut On Promising Open-Source Radioss Project
As a major disappointment to the open-source community, Siemens has decided to end — and close-up access — to the OpenRadioss project as the open-source version opened up by Altair Engineering under the GNU AGPL License back in 2022. This was an open-source version of the industry-leading finite element solver that Altair developed. Siemens acquired Altair Engineering last year and have now completely shut the door on OpenRadioss…
Siemens Slams The Door Shut On Promising Open-Source Radioss Project
As a major disappointment to the open-source community, Siemens has decided to end — and close-up access — to the OpenRadioss project as the open-source version opened up by Altair Engineering under the GNU AGPL License back in 2022. This was an open-source version of the industry-leading finite element solver that Altair developed. Siemens acquired Altair Engineering last year and have now completely shut the door on OpenRadioss…
Steam On Linux Dives Down To 3.05% For September
Steam on Linux use in March hit an all-time high of around 5.33% marketshare. Since then it pulled back to around 4% while for September 2026 the Steam Survey results are now in and it’s clocking in just above 3%…
Fedora 45 Beta Performance: The Satisfyingly Boring Benchmarks
While there have been a number of Ubuntu 26.10 development benchmarks in recent weeks and more on the way, some Phoronix readers have asked about the lack of any early Fedora 45 tests given its recent beta. For good reason, it’s largely boring but here are some to illustrate.
Radeon RX 9000 GPUs Get DLSS 4.5 Support And RDNA 4’s FP8 Muscle Is Key

Countervolts, the modder responsible for Linux d4r, or “dlss 4 radeon”, has updated his tool with preliminary support for AMD RDNA 4-based Radeon GPUs using their native FP8 matrix units.
For those unfamiliar with d4r, it gives users the ability to forcibly enable DLSS on AMD graphics hardware, going as far back as the RDNA 3-based Radeon
GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Memory Gets Overclocked To A Scorching 39 Gbps

The GDDR7 memory used on the GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs may have considerably more memory overclocking headroom than NVIDIAs official specifications suggest, with one enthusiast pushing Samsung GDDR7 memory all the way from 28 Gbps to a scorching 39 Gbps, coincidentally a 39% overclock. This came about thanks to the mVolt+ Extreme overclock
SteelSeries Rival Pro & Sensei Pro Mice Ditch USB Dongles For Ultra-Wideband 8K

When choosing a new mouse, discerning gamers have to weigh the pros and cons of wired vs. wireless products, especially for those who play competitive games. SteelSeries is looking to make that decision a bit easier with its latest lineup of wireless mice, the Sensei Pro and Rival Pro series, which incorporate Ultra-Wideband technology (UWB)
The Witcher 3 Remastered Gets Stunning Path-Traced Graphics, GPUs Tremble

The launch of The Witcher 3: Remastered as a free cross-platform update with path tracing has generated quite a buzz. Not only is the beloved classic The Witcher 3 still receiving excellent, free updates, but with the latest graphical upgrades, it can now be as GPU intensive with path tracing enabled as the game originally was at the time