Some extremely cool patches were posted to the Linux kernel mailing list on Sunday. The patches for "KNOD" allow for in-kernel network offloading to GPUs with an initial focus on AMD GPU support. What makes this all the more nifty is that it doesn't depend upon any user-space libraries like AMD ROCm but is all handled in-kernel with driving the GPU directly.

After initially presenting his concept last year at the Linux Plumbers Conference in Japan, Taehee Yoo yesterday posted the KNOD patches to the Linux

Mozilla has uploaded the Firefox 153.0 release binaries today for the newest monthly update to this cross-platform web browser. Making Firefox 153 exciting is that it's the newest Extended Support Release "ESR" as well as introducing Vulkan Video decode support.

Firefox 153 is the newest ESR release designed for enterprises, schools, and other organization for long-term stability.

On the feature side, Firefox 153 introduces Vulkan Video decoding support . Firefox on Linux to date has focused

While openSUSE is closely aligned with SUSE as a company, they aren't the exclusive sponsor of this free and open-source Linux distribution with its rolling-release Tumbleweed and Leap stable releases. AMD has been a longtime major supporter of openSUSE and the Fastly content delivery company has been another platinum sponsor too besides SUSE. There are also various other lower-tier sponsors while today the openSUSE Project put out a call for further corporate sponsorship.

The openSUSE Project published a blog post today to attract interest in more corporate sponsorship

Earlier this month Intel compiler engineers posted initial GCC compiler patches for the AI Compute Extensions "ACE" that was born out of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group to augment AVX and scalar code with new capabilities for AI/ML workloads. Now as part of that an AMD compiler engineer posted patches over the weekend for AVX10_V2_AUX ISA support.

The AVX10_V2_AUX instruction set adds dedicated data processing and format conversion for helping accelerate AI workloads. AVX10_

The Qualcomm Crypto Engine Accelerator "QCE" driver is being disabled within the Linux 7.3 kernel over a number of issues, including being slower than having the CPU cores handling cryptographic work and a history of different driver bugs. Plus race conditions causing security issues and other challenges.

The Qualcomm Crypto Engine driver was merged to the mainline Linux kernel back in 2014 as the cryptographic processor built into Snapdragon and embedded processors designed for handling data encryption, hashing, and integrity checking. But queued up into the cryptographic

Out today is Hyprland 0.56 as the newest feature update to this unique Wayland compositor and incorporating just under three months worth of improvements.

Hyprland 0.56 delivers several layout improvements with new scrolling and master capabilities. There are also a number of new Lua API additions to allow for further customization of Hyprland.

Hyprland 0.56 also adds new window rule effects, XDG interactive drag support for dragging client-side decoration titlebars, glow now supports gradients, and other refinements.

The fourth weekly release candidate of the Linux 7.2 kernel is now available for testing.

It's been another brisk week of fixes for the Linux kernel, many of which continue to be uncovered by AI/LLMs. A wide variety of different fixes were merged though not many particularly notable.

If you are looking for a reason to celebrate today, the last of the MPEG-4 Part 2 patents expired today.

While the US and EU patents around MPEG-4 Part 2 expired in recent years, until today there remained one patent still active in Brazil. This final patent was BRPI0109962B1 - "process for storing and processing image information from successive images over time" .

The VIA Licensing Alliance confirmed that this was the final MPEG-4 Visual patent and indeed expiring