Over the weekend we wrote about the visually-impressive Tellusim Core SDK being posted to GitHub as a C++ SDK for high-end graphics and compute. The downside was that the Tellusim Core SKD was rather restrictive in only being free for education, free for companies with less than $200k USD in annual revenue, and evaluation purposes. Or you needed to obtain a negotiated license for the software. As a pleasant surprise, OSI-approved open-source projects not backed by for-profit organizations

Currently on Linux if you are putting the system into hibernation, there isn't a way to interrupt it and cancel it if you change your mind, even with most systems taking a number of seconds to successfully hibernate. But a new patch series sent out this weekend would introduce that capability.

Muhammad Usama Anjum of Collabora sent out a patch series this weekend to allow hibernation cancellation support. Basically for cancelling an ongoing hibernation process should you change your mind and not want to wait for the system to first successfully hibernate.

LunarG in August announced KosmicKrisp as a Vulkan-to-Metal driver for a better Vulkan API experience on Apple macOS devices compared to the likes of using MoltenVK as another Vulkan-on-Metal adaptation. As of today the KosmicKrisp driver for Vulkan 1.3 on Apple devices is now in the Mesa 26.0 codebase.

This merge adding KosmicKrisp to the available Mesa drivers was merged today, following other recent prerequisite merges to Mesa. With this KosmicKrisp is providing Vulkan 1.3 on Apple hardware. Google continues

AMD is hosting an AI Day out in San Francisco today and as part of those festivities today they announced the ROCm Core SDK 7.9 SDK paired with TheRock build and release infrastructure system they have been crafting.

Yes, this new ROCm Core SDK version is v7.9... I was left scratching my head as well and wondering if I was in coma some months or the like since last I recalled was the ROCm 7.0 series. It turns out there is an intentional discontinuity for this ROCm

It looks like the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel could land initial Tenstorrent vendor support and provide initial support for the Blackhole SoC with the initial Blackhole P100/P150 PCIe accelerator cards.

Last month initial Linux kernel patches were posted for the Tenstorrent Blackhole SoC . The Tenstorrent Blackhole SoC is made up of four RISC-V CPU tiles of four SiFive X280 cores. Each tile in turn can run an instance of Linux. The patches that have been out for public review are

Well this wasn't on my bingo card for 2025... There is now yet another NTFS file-system driver for Linux. There's long been the read-only NTFS driver in the Linux kernel, the more capable NTFS FUSE driver in user-space, and then in recent years the NTFS3 driver that was upstreamed to the Linux kernel by Paragon Software. NTFS3 offers read/write support and other improvements over the prior kernel driver. Now there is "NTFSPLUS" as

Earlier this month Intel Linux graphics driver engineers began posting the initial Intel Xe3P graphics enablement code with a focus on the integrated graphics to be found with Nova Lake. Xe3P will also later be found in Intel discrete graphics cards like Crescent Island and more. That very early Intel Xe3P code is now expected to be merged as part of the Linux 6.19 kernel as what will be the first Linux kernel release of 2026.

Sent out today was the first drm-xe

It was to much surprise waking up this morning and seeing the Servo 0.0.1 release for this Rust-based web layout engine that began as a Mozilla project and is now being developed independently via Linux Foundation Europe and other parties.

Servo v0.0.1 was tagged in Git today as a rare tagged release for this web layout engine. Servo has been quite active in recent years with its Servo shell demo browser and working toward promising embedded web capabilities so that Servo can be easily used by various