In a blog post today talking up the single threaded CPU performance of their Vera CPU with Olympus cores, NVIDIA confirmed a few basic details of their next-gen Rosa CPU featuring their "Rigel" core.

While NVIDIA Vera only recently began shipping and in late May we delivered some of the first benchmarks of the NVIDIA Vera CPU , NVIDIA has already begun sharing some brief details around their next-generation Rosa CPU with Rigel core.

NVIDIA shared in a blog post predominantly talking up Vera's single threaded performance benefits:

NVIDIA today published their latest stable driver update for Linux customers in their newest R610 release branch.

The NVIDIA 610.43.03 Linux driver is out today as their first new R610 driver build in over a month. While several weeks have passed, today's release listing is particularly light in listing any of the changes found in this revision. The release notes simply state:

"- Minor bug fixes and improvements"

Typically the release notes for NVIDIA Linux driver builds

Bavarian Linux PC vendor TUXEDO Computers announced they are switching from Ubuntu to Debian as the base for their TUXEDO OS platform.

TUXEDO Computers announced today that " Ubuntu will no longer serve as the foundation of TUXEDO OS in the future. " TUXEDO is leaving Ubuntu to better align with the hybrid release model of TUXEDO OS while Ubuntu LTS as a base quickly goes stale in terms of software updates. TUXEDO Computers also expressed distaste for the AI roadmap being pursued by Canonical for future Ubuntu releases.

TUXEDO Computers will be using Debian Testing

The Linux kernel's AF_ALG interface was deprecated in Linux 7.2 . This interface for letting user-space programs interact directly with the Linux kernel crypto API has proven to be a "massive attack surface" due to a variety of security concerns . With its deprecation in Linux 7.2, some AF_ALG features are already removed and for Linux 7.3 this interface is being further restrained.

Linux crypto expert Eric Biggers at Google is introducing a new af_alg_restrict sysctl knob to

One of the original developers behind the work to allow the Linux kernel to be compiled using LLVM/Clang as an alternative to the GCC compiler is now back in the saddle working on LLVM Linux support. LLVM/Clang support for building the Linux kernel has been important for improving code portability and addressing GCC'isms, making use of LLVM compiler features not yet found with the GNU toolchain, evaluating the performance between GCC and Clang, and all the more important these days with the Linux kernel Rust integration.

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In 2026 it's not too surprising when seeing old PCMCIA and ISA drivers being removed from the mainline Linux kernel source tree and old very low-speed network interfaces, with arguably the most surprising fast being how long they lasted in the mainline kernel. Meanwhile for the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel, one of the first 10Gb Ethernet drivers is already set for retirement from the mainline Linux kernel.

The EHEA network driver slated for removal is for the IBM pSeries eHEA 10Gb network adapter

The newest, unexpected addition to the Mesa codebase by Microsoft engineers is contributed accelerated AV1 video encoding on the GPU using a combination of DirectX 12 and the Hardware Media Foundation Transform (HMFT) support that is part of the Windows Media Foundation layer.

This AV1 video encoding layered upon DX12+HMFT for cross-vendor support on Windows is done to benefit Microsoft's continued ambitions around Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) support.

Earlier this year Vulkan Video encode was disabled on newer generations of Intel graphics hardware due to insufficient testing with the Intel ANV open-source driver. That impacted Gen12.5 graphics and newer - basically Alchemist and anything newer. Now at least Gen12.5 graphics with the likes of the Arc A-Series is seeing H.264 and H.265 encoding re-enabled.

The disabling earlier this year was due to Vulkan Video not seeing too much attention on the Intel Linux

Longtime AMD Linux graphics driver expert Marek Olšák, who joined Valve earlier this year and now focusing more on RADV rather than the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, has seen some of his latest work now merged for Mesa 26.2. Marek landed a big overhaul to the variable rate shading (VRS) code that in some cases can double the performance.

Variable rate shading is the modern graphics feature that allows a reduction of pixel shading rate in less important areas of the frame. Marek partially rewrote the