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PhoronixGNOME & Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default: "An X11'ism...Dumpster Fire"
Both the GNOME desktop and Mozilla Firefox browser projects are considering disabling middle-click-paste functionality by default...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Firefox-MiddleClick-Paste
PhoronixMicro QuickJS Engine Compiles & Runs JavaScript With As Little As 10kB Of RAM
Very talented open-source developer Fabrice Bellard who already is well known for his work on QEMU, the Tiny C Compiler, and FFmpeg, has another accomplishment: Micro QuickJS. The Micro QuickJS JavaScript engine can compile and run JavaScript programs with as little as 10 kB of RAM...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Micro-QuickJS
PhoronixNiri 25.11 Rust-Written Wayland Compositor Adds Alt-Tab Switcher, New Animations
Niri 25.11 is now available as the latest feature release for this Rust-written, scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Niri-25.11
PhoronixFFmpeg 8.0 Merges OpenAI Whisper Filter For Automatic Speech Recognition
The upcoming FFmpeg 8.0 multimedia library release continues to get more exciting almost by the day. The newest feature being squeezed into this next release is a Whisper audio filter for making use of OpenAI's Whisper model for providing automatic speech recognition / transcription capabilities...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-Lands-Whisper
PhoronixGCC Developers Discuss Dropping Poorly Supported, Niche CPU Architectures
Following the discussion over potentially obsoleting/deprecating the Itanium IA-64 support within the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), developers are discussing similar treatment for some of the other poorly-maintained CPU ports...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-Epiphany-M3C-RL78
PhoronixAMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 With Framework Desktop vs. Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Linux Performance
Last week alongside our Framework Desktop review with the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" SoC I posted benchmarks of the Strix Halo performance compared to the Ryzen 9 9950X / 9950X3D socketed desktop processors. For those wondering similarly how the top-end Strix Halo SoC in the Framework Desktop competes with the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Ar…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-ai-max-arrow-lake
PhoronixIntel Posts Latest Patches For DRM Sharpness Property To Enjoy With Lunar Lake & Beyond
For over a year now Intel has been working on a new DRM sharpness property for making use of Lunar Lake's new adaptive sharpening filter capabilities built into its display engine. This new sharpening filter with Lunar Lake and future SoCs can hep with sharpening blurred or upscaled content and over the past year has gone through several rounds of c…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-Sharpness-Prop-Post-6.17
PhoronixIntel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs
There is yet more apparent fallout from Intel's recent layoffs/restructurings as it impacts the Linux kernel... The coretemp driver that provides CPU core temperature monitoring support for all Intel processors going back many years is now set to an orphaned state with the former driver maintainer no longer at Intel and no one immediately available to serve as …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-coretemp-Orphaned
PhoronixMesa 25.2 Released With Many Improvements For RADV, Intel & NVK Drivers
Mesa 25.2 is now available as the newest quarterly feature release for this set of open-source Linux graphics drivers predominantly for OpenGL, Vulkan, and video acceleration support on the Linux desktop...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-25.2-Released