Patches posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list provide support for Apple GMUX hybrid graphics support on 2018~2019 Apple MacBook Pros. This allows for better power savings on these nearly decade old MacBook Pro laptops by allowing the discrete GPU to power down and be properly restored as needed.

Andre Eikmeyer posted the patches today for this Apple GMUX hybrid graphics support in working to address a roughly 12 Watt power cost to booting the discrete GPU of the MacBookPro15,1 even when it'

Hyunjun Ko of Igalia continues working on Vulkan Video support for Intel graphics hardware on Linux with the ANV driver. Merged now for Mesa 26.3-devel is enabling AV1 video encoding via Vulkan Video on DG2/Alchemist hardware.

Intel Gen125 hardware now exposes AV1 video encoding with KHR_video_encode_av1 with Ko testing from DG2 Arc A-Series graphics cards.

Since last year there's been Vulkan Video AV1 decode for Intel ANV while now AV1

One of the Direct Rendering Manager changes made for Linux 7.2 was switching to "fair" as the DRM scheduler default in place of the existing FIFO policy. The intent was on making the DRM scheduler policy more fair with this being used by AMDGPU and various other DRM kernel graphics drivers. But due to a last minute regression report, the fair policy is being reverted for Linux 7.2.

Tvrtko Ursulin of Igalia who led the fair scheduler work for DRM has decided to revert it for Linux 7.2

It's been quiet since the Mold 2.41 release back in April while today it's now been succeeded by Mold 2.42 for deliver even greater performance out of this high speed linker.

Mold 2.42 brings more optimizations throughout this open-source linker to deliver even greater performance. Mold 2.42 is said to be "noticeably faster than previous versions" but without any new performance benchmark data shared in the release notes or readme. The performance gains are said to be

Intel's LLM-Scaler project that was born out of their Project Battlematrix initiative aims to make it easier to run generative AI on Arc (Pro) B-Series graphics cards with the likes of vLLM, ComfyUI, SGLang, and other popular AI software in this Docker-based pre-configured AI stack. This week new LLM-Scaler releases brought same-day support for new models and other enhancements.

Most notable with the Intel LLM-Scaler-vLLM beta 0.21.0-b3

LACT is one of the popular third-party Linux GPU configuration and monitoring utilities that works across NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel graphics. This GUI provides GPU overclocking controls plus a wealth of information reporting, which is especially great considering the lack of any official GUI control panel for AMD Radeon and Intel Arc graphics on Linux. With today's LACT 0.10 release, there are yet more features in tow.

LACT 0.10 delivers additional NVIDIA overclocking settings including the ability to manage the PowerMizer mode for

For those using QEMU as part of the open-source virtualization stack, QEMU 11.1 is now available with a number of new feature enhancements and fixes.

QEMU 11.1 released today with a variety of enhancements although no one feature standing out particularly.

QEMU 11.1 to the UFS code adds support for UFS Write Booster emulation based on the UFS 4.1 specification. Also from the UFS 4.1 spec is support for Host Initiated Defragmentation (HID) emulation.

The new QEMU 1

A new blog post out today from the Redox OS crew highlights all of the interesting improvements made to this Rust-based, open-source operating system over the course of July.

Redox OS has continued working on its EEVDF scheduler support and reducing the cost of CPU context switching and better scaling. Redox Summer of Code developer Akshit Gaur has brought a synthetic benchmark down from around ~1.15 microseconds to about 250 nanoseconds with the latest work. Ultimately when this work is complete it should help in greatly

Intel today published their 20260811 CPU microcode updates to fix a variety of issues for exciting processors, including shipping the first new microcode images for Bartlett Lake and Wildcat Lake. The new microcode updates stretch back to Intel Core Gen10 processors.

A total of eight security issues have been addressed with today's Intel 20260811 CPU microcode drop. INTEL-SA-01379 is a high rated escalation of privilege vulnerability around Intel TDX with