Bcachefs Is Now Able To Auto-Fix A Few More Fsck Errors

Another round of Bcachefs file-system fixes were submitted and merged this week for the ongoing Linux 6.16 cycle, including the ability to auto-fix more file-system check "fsck" errors...
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Tria Expands Embedded Portfolio with Qualcomm SoMs Supporting Windows, Android, and Linux lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Intel Begins Preparing Linux For Next-Gen DSA 3.0 Accelerators

In addition to Intel recently upstreaming Linux support for new QAT "Gen 6" hardware as their next-generation QuickAssist Technology IP, Intel today began posting Linux kernel driver patches for a new version of their Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA). It looks like upcoming Xeon processors will be rolling out a lot of new accelerator IP...
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Intel Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Initial Support For VP9 Decoding

Introduced last week with Vulkan 1.4.317 was Vulkan Video support for VP9 video decoding. Following that the open-source Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver landed its VK_KHR_video_decode_vp9 support and now similarly the open-source Intel Vulkan driver has too...
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(Updated) DFRobot Previews RISC-V-Based FireBeetle 2 with ESP32-P4, Targeting Image and Video Applications lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

OpenMoonRay Introduces NUMA Support

Two years ago DreamWorks Animation open-sourced their MoonRay renderer that is an award-winning, state-of-the-art production MCRT renderer used for a number of feature films. Since then they have continued advancing this open-source code as OpenMoonRay and adding more features. The newest feature release of OpenMoonRay is now available with yet more capabilities for this impressive renderer...
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Google Cloud C4D Performance Benchmarks At The Top-End Show 39% Generational Improvement With EPYC Turin

Back in April at Google Cloud Next was the introduction of the new C4D family of VMs powered by AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors. Back on launch day I looked at the C3D vs. C4D performance at some of the smaller, more common VM sizes. In today's article is a look at the top-end performance of the C4D family with 384 vCPUs. For those wonde…
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Sound Open Firmware 2.13 Released With Intel Panther Lake & Wildcat Lake Support

Sound Open Firmware 2.13 debuted today as the newest feature update to this open-source audio DSP stack started by Intel. With Sound Open Firmware 2.13 comes support for new Intel platforms and other enhancements...
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AMD Developer Cloud Announced In Enabling Developer Access To Instinct MI355X & More

What will likely be one of the most under-reported announcements from AMD AI Day 2025 is the AMD Developer Cloud... It's set to play a big role moving forward but today isn't as exciting itself as the likes of the Instinct MI350 series and ROCm 7.0 software...
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