The Qt Group released the Qt Creator 20 Beta today for this Qt/C++ focused integrated development environment (IDE). In building off the trends of recent releases of Qt Creator and development tools at large, AI integration continues to be a big area of focus.

Qt Creator 20 Beta introduces a new Agent Client Protocol (ACP) extension that allows developers to chat with AI agents to understand the codebase and performing edits / actions / builds. ACP provides the standardized protocol for agent-editor communication for

Last October engineers at Meta announced OpenZL as a format-aware compression framework . OpenZL aims to be speedy yet capable of delivering high compression ratios depending upon what is being compressed. OpenZL is viewed as their next leap in data compression beyond their wonderful work on Zstandard (Zstd). This week there's finally a new OpenZL software release available.

OpenZL v0.2 is now available for this framework that takes a description of the data to be compressed and builds a specialized compression that is optimized for the data.

AMD software engineers continue rapidly advancing their open-source software efforts around local AI/LLM use on consumer-class Radeon and Ryzen hardware. AMD GAIA 0.17.6 was released on Thursday with more improvements for local AI processing on Windows, Linux, and even macOS. For those trusting enough in local LLM pipelines to do the right thing, there is even integration now for AMD GAIA to interface with your Gmail account.

AMD GAIA 0.17.6 introduces an OAuth PKCE foundation for connections and

With Intel's recently-launched Bartlett Lake P-core-only processors intended for the embedded market, there is a rather surprising oversight under Linux: the Intel P-State driver reporting a 7.0+ GHz clock speed. While many would yearn for a 7GHz CPU, the Core 9 273PE where this issue was discovered in reality can only boost up to 5.7GHz for its maximum turbo frequency.

A QNAP engineer has been posting patches this week for the Intel P-State

One week after the Copy Fail vulnerability, a new Linux local privilege escalation bug has been made public. This time around there are no patches or CVEs yet for this "Dirty Frag" vulnerability as the embargo was broken early and thus the security researcher went ahead and published earlier than anticipated.

Dirty Frag allows local users to elevate to root on all major distributions. Linux distributions aren't yet patched though there is a workaround for those interested, but for the immediate future it means root privilege escalaton on all major distributions

Following Linux 7.1 beginning to phase out i486 CPU support and in turn drivers like those for the old AMD Elan SoCs now being removed , for Linux 7.2 the processor support removal is going further to now include some i586 and i686 class processors.

Following the i486 farewell, TSC-less i586/i686 processors are being removed. Supporting those vintage GPUs without the Time Stamp Counter "TSC" instruction are becoming a

The Realtek RTL8159 has been appearing in some 10G-rated USB network adapters at online retailers, some for less than $100 USD. But currently the RTL8159 is only supported by Realtek's out-of-tree Linux kernel driver, but fortunately there will be mainline support coming with the Linux 7.2 kernel this summer.

The Realtek RTL8159 is used as a 10Gbit USB Ethernet chipset and support within the mainline Linux kernel

Merged today to Mesa 26.2-devel was a reorganization of the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver code to better separate the graphics and multimedia acceleration code from the rest of the driver.

This code hitting Mesa Git today cleans up a lot of the code and makes it easier for handling use-cases like RadoenSI driver builds without graphics (OpenGL) acceleration support as well as for now allowing RadeonSI driver builds just for multimedia support for video acceleration.

Since a few months ago was support for building the RadeonSI driver

The Flattened Image Tree "FIT" 1.0 specification was recently finalized for this container format used by U-Boot on embedded systems for providing various boot components like DTBs, the Linux kernel image, and more into a single file.

The Flat(tened) Image Tree usage can lead to a simpler Linux boot experience for embedded platforms and making it easier to manage deploying of updates with the single container file for providing all of the needed boot assets plus allowing for verified boot functionality and related features. U-Boot