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20+ hour, 24+ min ago (10+ words) D7 VK 1. 7 Brings More Improvements For Legacy Direct3 D On Vulkan'Phoronix...
Intel's New Shader Compiler "Jay" Merged For Mesa 26. 1
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (387+ words) It was just a few days ago that Jay was publicly posted as the new shader compiler in-development for Intel GPUs on Linux for both their ANV Vulkan and Iris Gallium3 D drivers. While still very experimental, that initial Jay compiler…...
Mir-Based Miracle-WM 0. 9 Introduces A Web Assembly Plugin System
3+ day, 18+ min ago (394+ words) Miracle-WM as the Wayland compositor / window manager built atop Canonical's Mir project is out with a big new feature release. This "hackable" and i3/Sway-inspired Wayland compositor has landed a Web Assembly-based plug-in system for opening up new possibilities as well…...
Jay: A New Open-Source Shader Compiler Being Developed For Intel GPUs
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (380+ words) Jay is a new open-source shader compiler being developed for Intel's open-source Open GL and Vulkan Linux drivers. Ultimately this Jay shader compiler should help in delivering better Linux graphics performance with modern Intel hardware. .. - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics…...
Linux's Second-In-Command Turns To New Fuzzing Tools For Uncovering Kernel Bugs
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (208+ words) Greg Kroah-Hartman, the main Linux stable kernel maintainer and typically viewed as the second-in-command to the Linux kernel development, has turned to new "gregkh_clanker_t1000" fuzzing tooling to help uncover new kernel bugs. .. - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory…...
Rust Coreutils 0. 8 Brings Significant Performance Gains
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (184+ words) Rust Coreutils 0. 8 was released today as the newest major release to this alternative to GNU Coreutils. .. - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Rust Coreutils 0. 8 Brings Significant Performance Gains Michael Larabel…...
Google Proposes JSIR As A High-Level IR For Java Script
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (382+ words) Google engineers have been developing JSIR as a high-level intermediate representation (JSIR) for Java Script that they are already using in production at the company code code analysis and transforming other code/bytecode to Java Script as well as for…...
Microsoft's Newest Open-Source Project: Runtime Security For AI Agents
1+ week, 2+ day ago (371+ words) Microsoft today announced their newest open-source (MIT-licensed) software project. . the Agent Governance Toolkit. Microsoft is trying their hand at coming up with runtime security governance for autonomous AI agents. .. - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors…...
Proposed Wine Code Uses Zink For Open GL-On-Vulkan By Default
1+ week, 2+ day ago (387+ words) A Code Weavers engineer opened a merge request yesterday for Wine to use Mesa's Zink Open GL-on-Vulkan driver by default. This would build Zink as a Windows Portable Executable (PE) for allowing Open GL to go straight to the Vulkan…...
The Linux Kernel's Minimum Rust Version Supported Prepares For Rust 1. 85 Baseline
1+ week, 3+ day ago (387+ words) The Rust-For-Linux crew is preparing to raise the minimum supported Rust version for building the Linux kernel and and similarly also bumping the minimum supported version of bindgen, the tool for generating Rust FFI bindings for C code in the…...