Alongside announcing the new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake parts with vPro for commercial PCs and the Xeon 600 workstation processors, Intel finally announced their professional "big Battlemage" BMG-G31 graphics card with the Arc Pro B70 as well as the Arc Pro B65.

Intel finally announced the Arc Pro B70 and B65 discrete GPUs as their newest professional graphics products. Sadly, for consumers, no non-Pro BMG-G31 is announced. The Arc

FreeCAD 1.1 is out today as the newest feature release for this leading open-source CAD application.

FreeCAD 1.1 brings support for transparent Part Design previews, interactive draggers for more tools, Assembly and FEM improvements, a new CAM tool library, and more.

Earlier this month with the release of the Lemonade SDK 10.0 and FastFlowLM 0.9.35, using AMD Ryzen AI NPUs for running LLMs on Linux finally became feasible. AMD XDNA 2 NPUs can now run on Linux well for LLM workloads! Released on Tuesday was Lemonade 10.0.1 with a few improvements for the setup process of this local LLM open-source solution on Linux.

The Lemonade SDK helps Windows, macOS, and Linux users run large language models on their GPUs,

Ubuntu developers at Canonical are looking to strip the signed GRUB bootloader features to the bare minimum for the Ubuntu 26.10 release later this year. Dropping support for XFS, ZFS, Btrfs, LVM, md-raid (except RAID1), LUKS-encrypted disks, and other features is being looked at in the name of security.

Due to various parsers and other features being a "constant source of security issues" with the GRUB bootloader, Ubuntu 26.10 is likely to remove a

With the recent Fedora 44 beta release, Mesa 25.3 graphics drivers were in use rather than the newest Mesa 26.0 series. The good news is that there is now approval for getting Mesa 26.0 drivers to land in time for next month's official Fedora 44 release.

Due to the differing release schedules between Fedora Linux and Mesa, there was less than ideal alignment with Fedora 44. Typically Fedora waits a few Mesa point releases before incorporating the new Mesa version into

Unvanquished 0.56 is out today as the latest major update to this prominent open-source, community-driven shooter game. Unvanquished continues progressing after more than a decade in development for this open-source game and with today's v0.56 release features improved visuals, OpenMP for CPU-based rendering of skeletal models, and other enhancements.

Unvanquished 0.56 ships with many renderer improvements to its Daemon engine. This update introduces their linear blend regime for improved lighting, the FXX anti

Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver for Linux systems enabled a new feature called BTP+BTI RCC Keying. You may be wondering what it means or stands for, but long story short it helps with the performance of Direct3D 12 (DX12) games running on Linux by way of Valve's Steam Play with Proton + VKD3D-Proton.

The main patch for enabling BTP+BTI RCC keying is over five years old, being authored all the way back in

Days after Oracle celebrated their RHEL-based Oracle Linux distribution turning 20 years old, today they announced Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8.2 "UEK 8.2" as their alternative to the RHEL-clone kernel with Oracle Linux.

The Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel is Oracle's premier Linux kernel option for Oracle Linux with additional features and other extra hardening and capabilities compared to what is the RHEL-compatible kernel version. With UEK 8 Update 2 they are still using a Linux 6.12 LTS base for their kernel