Linus Torvalds Lands A 2.6% Performance Improvement With Minor Linux Kernel Patch Linus Torvalds merged a patch on Wednesday that he authored that with reworking a few lines of code is able to score a 2.6% improvement within Intel's well-exercise "will it scale" per-thread-ops benchmark test case... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-2.6p-Faster-Scale-Patch

Fedora 41 Releases Today With Many Shiny New Features Fedora 41 is ready for release today as a wonderful update to this leading edge Linux distribution... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-Download

RADV Vulkan Driver Merges Device Generated Commands Support Thanks to Valve's Linux graphics team, VK_EXT_device_generated_commands is now supported by the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver with the upcoming Mesa 24.3 release... https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-VK-EXT-DGC

Vulkan 1.3.300 Delivers New Cooperative Matrix Extension From NVIDIA Vulkan 1.3.300 debuted on Friday with a handful of fixes and one new extension... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.3.300-Released

KDE Fixing Many Bugs, Prepping New Plasma 6.3 Features KDE developers continue being very busy prepping more bug fixes for the Plasma 6.2.x series while continuing to work on new feature material for Plasma 6.3... https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-More-Fixes-Plasma-6.2.2

Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted Following yesterday's news first featured on Phoronix of several Linux driver maintainers being de-listed from their maintainer positions within the mainline Linux kernel over their connections to Russia, Linus Torvalds has today commented on the matter... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Russian-Devs

The Free Software Foundation Finally Has AI / Machine Learning Apps On Their Radar The Free Software Foundation announced on Tuesday they have begun work on "freedom in machine learning applications". Or in particular, a to-be-issued "statement" on free machine learning applications for software and the associated scripts and training data... https://www.phoronix.com/news/FSF-Freedom-AI-ML-Software

AMD Posts Linux Patches For EPYC To Further Enhance Performance-Per-Watt By Default Making for an exciting Monday morning, AMD Linux engineers have kicked off the new week with a patch series introducing an exciting and long-awaited change: using the AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver by default for EPYC server platforms moving forward rather than the ACPI CPUFreq driver... https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-P-State-EPYC-Linux-Patches

Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source Several Phoronix readers have written in this Sunday over concerns of Bitwarden further moving away from open-source. Bitwarden is a password management service that leverages an encrypted vault and supports multiple clients/platforms. Bitwarden operates on a freemium model and has provided some code as open-source while there are new concerns over Bitwarden further … https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bitwarden-Open-Source-Concerns

Laptop Vendor Malibal Suggests Not Supporting Coreboot In a rather surprising post this morning, laptop vendor Malibal that offers both Linux and Windows systems is suggesting to not support the Coreboot project for open-source system firmware... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Malibal-Suggests-No-Coreboot