📰 OpenVDB Introduces SIMD Framework With Some 2~4x Performance Improvements

OpenVDB is the sparse volume data structure and tooling library maintained by the Academy Software Foundation. OpenVDB in turn is used by various CGI software for dealing with sparse volumetric data such as Houdini, RenderMan, and Cinema 4D to the open-source Blender. It's even won an Academy Award for technical achievement while now in 2026 it's finally establishing a SIMD framework for better leveraging modern x86 ISA capabilities...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenVDB-SIMD--Framework

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https://phoronix.com/news/OpenVDB-SIMD--Framework

Google’s Dream-RSI cuts AI discovery costs by replaying past searches

AI discovery is the use of AI agents to search through many possible solutions, experiments, or algorithms. The agents generate ideas, test them, evaluate the results, and refine their search to find better outcomes faster. Google DeepMind’s Dream-RSI lets AI agents test thousands of search strategies against recorded attempts instead of rerunning expensive experiments. In tests across eight algorithmic, mathematical, and GPU tasks, the approach reduced discovery-agent calls by up to 162 times and helped Gemini find a faster statistical solver in 317 attempts, compared with 550 for a fixed strategy and 51,200 for SimpleTES.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/googles-dream-rsi-cuts-ai-discovery-costs-by-replaying-past-searches/

Anthropic pays Accenture to impede its own progress

Anthropic has selected Accenture’s Faculty unit as its first embedded evaluator, giving an outside team direct access to its AI development work. The companies plan to invest at least $1 billion each over five years, while Anthropic will initially finance Accenture’s participation. In effect, Anthropic is paying a third party to scrutinize—and help slow—the company’s own push toward more powerful frontier models. That absurd arrangement raises fundamental questions about conflicts of interest, internal judgment, and whether Anthropic's leadership is qualified to build safe AI.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/anthropic-pays-accenture-to-impede-its-own-progress/

📰 Dash to Panel v74 Is Ready for GNOME 51

Dash to Panel v74 is out, adding GNOME 51 compatibility to the popular GNOME Shell extension.

🔗 Source: /

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https://linuxiac.com/dash-to-panel-74-is-ready-for-gnome-51

📰 AMD Sends Out Linux Patches For Enabling SEV-TIO TDISP With PCIe 6.0+

The newest Linux kernel patches out of AMD for enhancing the upstream support with the new AMD EPYC 9006 "Venice" processors is for enabling SEV-TIO TDISP that is supported with PCI Express 6.0 and beyond...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-SEV-TIO-TDISP-Linux-Patches

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📰 Linux Kernel Build Times Ready To Be Significantly Reduced With Latest Patches

The past few weeks we have eagerly been following a Linux kernel patch series after AI found some major bottlenecks in the Linux kernel build code. With AI helping to address these bottlenecks, Linux kernel build times are substantially reduced. These optimizations might be ready in time for Linux 7.4 for reducing incremental kernel build times as much as around 70%.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kbuild-Faster-v3

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https://phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kbuild-Faster-v3

📰 Canonical improving Ubuntu Linux Desktop stability under memory pressure

Canonical developers have been working to improve Ubuntu Linux Desktop performance, specifically when under memory pressure making it a bit smarter.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/canonical-improving-ubuntu-linux-desktop-stability-under-memory-pressure/

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https://gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/canonical-improving-ubuntu-linux-desktop-stability-under-memory-pressure

🎬 Vidman - A Program To View Video Man Pages
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📰 PipeWire 1.6.9 Improves Bluetooth, JACK, ALSA Plugin, Pulse Server, and More

PipeWire 1.6.9 audio/video server for Linux is now available for download with improved JACK object callbacks, improved passthrough format handling in audioconvert, and more.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/pipewire-1-6-9-improves-bluetooth-jack-alsa-plugin-pulse-server-and-more

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📰 AMD Sends In More HDMI FRL Updates For Linux 7.4, Fixes For Upcoming Hardware

Linux 7.4 is set to be a very exciting holiday gift for AMD Radeon graphics customers. As covered last week on Phoronix, with this next kernel AMD Is enabling HDMI 2.1 support by default now that FreeSync, VRR, and ALLM support is included too. This week another round of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver updates were sent out ahead of the Linux 7.4 merge window in October...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/More-AMDGPU-For-Linux-7.4

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https://phoronix.com/news/More-AMDGPU-For-Linux-7.4

📰 SteamOS 0.3.0 for Steam Frame released

Valve are now beginning to announce SteamOS updates for the Steam Frame, with the first public notification being SteamOS 0.3.0 for Steam Frame.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/steamos-0-3-0-for-steam-frame-released/

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https://gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/steamos-0-3-0-for-steam-frame-released

📰 I replaced my Chromecast with a Raspberry Pi running Kodi, and it plays everything without buffering

I replaced my Chromecast with a Pi for a better self-hosted media experience.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/i-replaced-my-chromecast-with-raspberry-pi-running-kodi-plays-everything-without-buffering/

#kodi #raspberry

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https://xda-developers.com/i-replaced-my-chromecast-with-raspberry-pi-running-kodi-plays-everything-without-buffering

📰 Factorio gets a full ARM64 Linux port to play anywhere - especially nice for the Steam Frame

Wube Software gave Factorio something players have been asking for 11 years - a full ARM64 Linux port to play anywhere, which is ready for the Steam Frame.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/factorio-gets-a-full-arm64-linux-port-to-play-anywhere-especially-nice-for-the-steam-frame/

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https://gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/factorio-gets-a-full-arm64-linux-port-to-play-anywhere-especially-nice-for-the-steam-frame

📰 Linux Ready With Fix For Intel's FRED Crashing Some Games Under Wine / Steam Play

Recently there have been some bug reports to Mesa around Intel Panther Lake graphics crashing with some games like Red Dead Redemption 2 and Elden Ring crashing or freezing quite quickly. This turns out not to be an Intel Xe3 Arc Graphics B390 driver bug with Panther Lake but rather due to a kernel issue with the new Flexible and Return Event Delivery "FRED" that debuted with the Core Ultra Series 3 processors...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-FRED-Fix-For-Wine-Games

#intel #kernel #linux #steam #wine

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https://phoronix.com/news/Linux-FRED-Fix-For-Wine-Games

Convey is a GTK4/libadwaita fork of Linux email app Geary

Convey is a new Linux email client based on the code of Geary, remade with a GTK4/libadwaita UI and support for Microsoft 365 accounts. Somewhat like traditional mail, it arrives not long after I wrote about another new Linux email client, Postcard, which also draws its inspiration from Geary – the source being much-loved by Linux users, but whose last stable release was in 2024. Convey is a self-described hard fork of Geary so, unlike Postcard, it isn’t a tribute so much as a continuation – albeit an unofficial one: the Flathub listing is clear that it is “not affiliated with […]
You're reading Convey is a GTK4/libadwaita fork of Linux email app Geary, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.

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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/convey-geary-email-client

📰 NVIDIA Introduces CUDA Rust for Writing GPU Kernels

NVIDIA is expanding CUDA with native Rust GPU kernel development through the new cuda-oxide and cutile-rs projects.

🔗 Source: /

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https://linuxiac.com/nvidia-introduces-cuda-rust-for-writing-gpu-kernels

📰 Apple Video Decode Driver Posted For Upstream Linux Kernel Review

The latest Apple Silicon enablement code working its way from the Asahi Linux project toward the upstream Linux kernel is the AVD driver used for accelerated video playback across Apple M1 / M2 / M3 SoCs...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-Video-Decode-AVD-Linux

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📰 KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal

Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/09/18/kde-turns-30-and-someones-brought-an-ai-native-desktop-proposal/5297282

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https://theregister.com/software/2026/09/18/kde-turns-30-and-someones-brought-an-ai-native-desktop-proposal/5297282

📰 Google's "Painful To Maintain" Binder C Linux Driver Being Removed In Favor Of Rust

Google's Binder driver written in the C programming language has long been part of the mainline kernel as the inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism used on Android. The past few years the Binder driver was rewritten in Rust as one of the first "real" drivers in the Rust programming language. The Rust Binder driver was upstreamed in Linux 6.18 and now for the upcoming Linux 7.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Binder-C-Goodbye

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📰 Public Exploits Released for Four Linux Kernel Flaws That Enable Local Root

A security researcher has released working exploit code for four Linux kernel flaws that each let a local user gain root, the highest level of access on a machine.Kernel maintainers have fixed all four over the past few weeks, so a system running an up-to-date kernel is not affected. But the exploit code is now public, and any machine still running an older kernel should be updated.The flaws.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/public-exploits-released-for-four-linux.html

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📰 Wine 11.18 Continues Building Out Its NTOSKRNL Implementation

Wine 11.18 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and apps on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.18-Released

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https://phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.18-Released