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Linux 6.19 Scheduler Feature Being Disabled Due To Performance Regressions
Queued into tip/tip.git's sched/urgent Git branch today is a patch to disable the kernel scheduler's NEXT_BUDDY functionality that was re-implemented back during the Linux 6.19 merge window. It turns out to cause some performance regressions that have yet to be otherwise addressed...
VVenC H.266 Encoder Rolls Out More ARM Optimizations For Nice Performance Gains
Fraunhofer HHI this week released a new version of VVenC, their open-source H.266 video encoder. Among the changes this release are more performance optimizations for ARM and I have run some comparison benchmarks using a NVIDIA GB10 SoC with the Dell Pro Max GB10...
Vulkan Roadmap 2026 Milestone: Variable Rate Shading, Host Image Copies & More
In addition to the release today of Vulkan 1.4.340 with the new descriptor heap VK_EXT_descriptor_heap extension and three other new extensions, The Khronos Group's Vulkan Working Group has also published the Vulkan Roadmap 2026 Milestone...
AMD Ryzen AI Software 1.7 Released For Improved Performance On NPUs, New Model Support
AMD today released a new version of Ryzen AI Software, the user-space packages for Microsoft Windows and Linux for making use of the Ryzen AI NPUs for various AI software tasks like Stable Diffusion, ONNX, and more...
GNU Guix 1.5 Released With RISC-V Support, Experimental x86_64 GNU Hurd Kernel
GNU Guix 1.5 is out today as the latest major release for this platform built around its functional package manager. This is a big upgrade with it having been three years since the GNU Guix 1.4 release...