For those that were intrigued by the COSMIC desktop's "Frosted Glass" effect , it's now available in released form with today's COSMIC Epoch 1.3 release.

System76 software engineers responsible for the Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment as part of their Pop!_OS Linux distribution today christened COSMIC Epoch 1.3. The headline feature is the frosted glass effect that can be activated via the COSMIC Settings. It's looking pretty nice in my opinion and many other Phoronix readers also

As of this past week in the FreeBSD source tree for FreeBSD 16, the last of the GNU GPL licensed code from the base system has been retired.

The dialog implementation was the last piece of GNU GPL licensed software in FreeBSD's base system. The FreeBSD installer previously transitioned to using bsddialog in place of dialog and then dpv was the last user of dialog but itself since turned off and now retired.

This ticket to retire dialog was opened back in February while is now merged to the FreeBSD source tree for

Blender 5.2 is out today as the newest Long Term Support release for this leading, open-source 3D modeling software.

Blender 5.2 brings a wealth of improvements thanks to its ongoing brisk development pace and continued sponsorship by many organizations. With Blender 5.2 LTS some of the highlights include:

- Blender 5.2 overhauled its Screen Space Raytracing pipeline for addressing long-standing usability issues.

- A few critical bugs within the Fast Global Illumination (GI) code of Blender have been resolved with

System76 today announced their new Adder Pro laptop that they are promoting as the "gamer's dream machine" with its NVIDIA graphics, 2K OLED 500 nit display, up to 96GB RAM, and 3.37 lb weight.

The new Adder Pro is powered by the Core Ultra 7 356H Panther Lake processor. On the dedicated graphics side is the option for either the GeForce RTX 5060 or RTX 5070 graphics cards.

The 2K

There is yet-another-foundation being stewarded by the Linux Foundation that further broadens its scope outside of the typical Linux/open-source umbrella. Today the Linux Foundation announced the launch of the x402 Foundation for aiming to standardize Internet-native payments for AI agents and applications.

Coinbase contributed to this new open-governance body the x402 protocol. The aim with x402 is to provide secure payment capabilities directly into web interactions over HTTP so that AI agents, APIs, and

A new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics driver has been sent out for GlandaGPU, an open-source custom 3D graphics core designed in VHDL and running on FPGA hardware.

The GlandaGPU core is open-source and is able to run on a Cycle V FPGA SoC. Before getting too excited, it just supports VGA output at 640x480 @ 60Hz with a 2D acceleration engine. For those without the FPGA hardware, there is a QEMU form for emulating it as

Ahead of the next Intel Compute Runtime release, IGC 2.38.2 was released today as the newest feature update to this open-source graphics compiler used by Intel iGPU/dGPU hardware on both Windows and Linux.

There are a wide assortment of fixes, new feature additions, and performance optimizations with the Intel Graphics Compiler 2.38.2 release.

On the performance optimization side, there are some optimizations benefiting Xe2+ hardware. There is also now IGC preferring SIMD16 over SIMD3

Hyunjun Ko with Igalia continues advancing the Vulkan Video capabilities of the Intel open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver for Linux systems.

After recently working on Vulkan Video encode fixes and fixing up H.264/H.265 encode for Intel Alchemist GPUs and other Gen12.5 graphics, he's now tackled 10-bit H.265 video encoding support.