Building on prior Mesa contributor guidelines and discussions among upstream Mesa developers, there are two generative AI "GenAI" policies that have now been decided upon for Mesa development moving forward.

Merged today to Mesa 26.1 Git are two Gen AI policies that have been discussed and largely agreed upon with developer consensus for enforcing around code submissions moving forward:

- Mesa will not accept automatic submissions through autonomous GenAI tools of any kind unless there becomes community consensus. So even if Gen AI is used in coming up with the patch

Rust Coreutils 0.8 was released today as the newest major release to this alternative to GNU Coreutils.

Rust Coreutils 0.8 is described as bringing "significant" performance gains across core utilities, expanded WebAssembly "WASI" support with a new online playground, and hardening against edge-case panics.

With the expanded WebAssembly support is also a new online playground here for trying out Rust Coreutils within your web browser.

Over the past year the FreeBSD project has been making much progress on making it more viable to run this BSD operating system on laptop hardware. They have worked on better graphics driver support, improved power management / suspend, making sure audio is working, and even rolling out a KDE desktop option from the FreeBSD OS installer to ease the deployment on desktops. While that engineering work continues, they are also working now to make it easier to summarize laptop hardware working or not on FreeBSD.

The FreeBSD Foundation issued a call-

A small but convenient feature is coming with the Linux 7.1 that will be useful in debugging AMD Zen system problems and information reporting/transparency purposes.

While AMD's AGESA firmware component has been around for a decade and leveraged by AM4 and AM5 Zen processors to date ( eventually to be replaced by openSIL ), until now there hasn't been a convenient way of finding out your AGESA version under Linux unless rebooting into your system BIOS/UEFI screen or parsing the BIOS version and seeing if your

For the better part of the past year NetBSD developers have been preparing for the NetBSD 11.0 release and in February NetBSD 11.0-RC1 released followed by 11.0-RC2 and now a third release candidate was announced today.

NetBSD 11.0 has been working on 64-bit RISC-V CPU support, initial enablement for Qualcomm Snapdragon X laptop SoCs, better support for Linux system call handling for better emulation support, a new MICROVM kernel option for fast virtual

Following Friday's release of Wine 11.6 with reviving the Android driver and improving game mod support as part of DLL loader updates, Wine-Staging 11.6 is out today with extra patches atop.

Wine-Staging 11.6 ships with some 285 patches atop the upstream Wine 11.6 codebase. Wine-Staging dropped a number of windows.web patches while updating VKD3D to the latest Git code and notably adding one new patch series.

A set of 6

Separate from the recently discussed work on MediaTek MT7927 "Filogic 380" support being worked on for the MT76 Linux driver (still undergoing review), a number of other MediaTek MT76 wireless driver improvements are queued up ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window opening as soon as next week.

Many MT76 driver patches made it into the net-next development repository for the Linux kernel's networking subsystem. Among the patches standing out the most are MediaTek MT

Google engineers have been developing JSIR as a high-level intermediate representation (JSIR) for JavaScript that they are already using in production at the company code code analysis and transforming other code/bytecode to JavaScript as well as for deobfuscating JavaScript code.

Zhixun Tan of Google's compiler team issued a request for comments (RFC) today on JSIR that builds off in part of the work of the LLVM and MLIR communities. Most JavaScript tooling to date relies on AST-based approaches rather than IR, which is where they

Open-source friendly company Tiny Corp that is behind the Tinygrad MIT-licensed neural network framework and developing a "sovereign" AMD GPU driver stack with their Tinybox hardware offerings has their sights on shipping the Exabox next year. The Tiny Corp's Exabox is expected to retail for around $10M USD but offer immense AI compute power.

The Exabox is in effect a super computer built within a 20 foot shipping container. The Exabox will ship with all necessary cooling and infrastructure with "just needing" a