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Radeon Software For Linux 26.12 Brings Ubuntu 26.04 Support

Phoronix | May 29, 2026, 5:32 a.m. | Original

While most Linux enthusiasts and desktop users/gamers are comfortable just riding the latest upstream Linux kernel and Mesa drivers shipped by their distribution, for those enterprises preferring the officially blessed and QA'ed driver packages from AMD, last week marked the release of the Radeon Software for Linux 26.12 driver.

Since abandoning AMDVLK and proprietary Vulkan/OpenGL driver components, the packaged Radeon Software for Linux driver has been even less important and used given the great upstream open-source AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver support. Quietly

Intel Sends Out Revised Linux Patches For Directed Package Thermal Interrupts

Phoronix | May 28, 2026, 8:51 p.m. | Original

Back in March was an initial patch series out of Intel for Linux support for Directed Package Thermal Interrupts as a new feature of recent Intel CPUs. There wasn't much to report over the past three months on this work but today a second iteration of the patches emerged on the Linux kernel mailing list.

As opposed to the current behavior of package-level thermal interrupts being broadcast to all CPU cores, Directed Package Thermal Interrupts allow for broadcasting to just one CPU core tasked for handling the package-wide events. In

Linux 7.2's Open-Source Nouveau Driver To Finally Support The NVIDIA GA100

Phoronix | May 28, 2026, 8:34 p.m. | Original

Sent out today was the last drm-misc-next pull request ahead of the Linux 7.2 merge window getting underway in June. As part of this last batch of small Direct Rendering Manager graphics/accelerator driver changes is finally enabling the NVIDIA GA100 within the Nouveau driver.

Back in February, NVIDIA posted GA100 support patches for the Nouveau driver in leveraging the GPU System Processor (GSP) for that Ampere accelerator. It's that work now coming to mainline with the upcoming Linux

Intel Arc Pro B70 BMG-G31 Linux Gaming Performance

Phoronix | May 28, 2026, 11:01 a.m. | Original

In recent weeks we have been exploring different areas of the Intel Arc Pro B70 graphics performance on Linux from various OpenCL and Vulkan to Level Zero compute benchmarks , scaling up to four Arc Pro B70 graphics cards , comparing to NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell , and other relevant tests. While not intended for gaming, many Phoronix readers keep raising requests for seeing the Arc Pro B70 performance for Linux gaming given the lack of any consumer BMG-G31 GPU. So for those curious, here is

Arm Announces Metis: Agentic AI Security Framework

Phoronix | May 28, 2026, 10:20 a.m. | Original

Arm today announced the open-sourcing of Metis, an agentic AI security framework that delivers context AI-powered security analysis in looking out for software vulnerabilities.

Arm Metis was announced by their product security team for helping to identify complex security issues across large-scale codebases. Arm says Metis is already monitoring more than 130 software projects for security vulnerabilities.

QEMU Shifting On AI Policy To Allow Some AI/LLM-Generated Contributions

Phoronix | May 28, 2026, 9:50 a.m. | Original

The QEMU processor emulator that plays an important role in the open-source Linux virtualization stack had a policy that forbid any contributions including or derived from AI-generated content. But there are now second thoughts with a proposed patch that will permit AI/LLM contributions in non-critical areas.

Red Hat virtualization engineer Paolo Bonzini posted a patch today to the QEMU mailing list that replaces their current contribution policy of forbidding AI-generated contributions. This is coming as there is a shift in the balance of believed risk over LLM

Qualcomm Snapdragon C Announced For $300+ Laptops

Phoronix | May 28, 2026, 9:23 a.m. | Original

For competing with the Apple MacBook Neo, Google Chromebooks, and other entry-level laptops, Qualcomm today announced the Snapdragon C series SoCs.

As a step below the more premium Snapdragon X series laptop SoCs, Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon C series today ahead of Computex kicking off in Taiwan. The Snapdragon C platform is designed for entry-tier laptops and will be used by OEMs like HP, Acer, and Lenovo. The Snapdragon C platform aims for the $300+ laptop segment.

Details on the Snapdragon C

Intel Arc G-Series Processors Announced For Handheld Gaming Devices

Phoronix | May 28, 2026, 9:16 a.m. | Original

Ahead of Computex, Intel today announced the introduction of the Arc G-Series. While taking on the "Arc" branding, this isn't a new graphics card from Intel but rather their new processors with integrated graphics for handheld gaming devices.

The Intel Arc G-Series were announced today with the initial Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme processors for Windows 11 powered gaming devices. The Intel Arc G3 / G3 Extreme are built off Panther Lake with the Xe3 integrated graphics and offering nice

KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta 2 Released With More Bug Fixes

Phoronix | May 28, 2026, 9:09 a.m. | Original

Building off the KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta release earlier in May, a second beta was declared today in preparing for the Plasma 6.7 stable debut in mid-June.

KDE developers continue working toward releasing Plasma 6.7.0 on 16 June while today marks a second beta candidate to help facilitate last minute testing. Since the first beta, Plasma 6.7 added some notification improvements and other refinements along with common bug fixing. Among the fixes were for some possible crash fixes and KWin memory leak

24 Years After The ATI R300 Launched, Open-Source R300 Driver Continues With Big Rework

Phoronix | May 28, 2026, 8:23 a.m. | Original

While there has been talk of potentially branching off the older Mesa graphics drivers , the ATI R300 Gallium3D driver just won't die yet. The R300 Gallium3D driver for supporting ATI R300 through R500 graphics cards saw a big rework merged today in restructuring the driver's intemediate representation (IR) handling.

Independent open-source contributor Pavel Ondračka continues working on the R300g driver and he's been pursuing a

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