FFmpeg 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... image
Go 1.25 Released With Experimental GC Yielding 10~40% Overhead Reduction Go 1.25 is out today as the newest half-year update to this popular programming language. What I find most exciting with Go 1.25 is the new experimental garbage collector yielding 10~40% reduction in overhead... image
Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 Released With Completed 64-bit Support, Rust Ported Following this weekend's release of Debian 13.0 "Trixie", Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 has been released as the state of Trixie while running atop Hurd rather than Linux... image
NVIDIA 580.76.05 Linux Driver Updates EGL Bits, Adds New MetaMode Attribute Following the NVIDIA 580 Linux beta driver from just one week ago, today NVIDIA issued a new R580 series Linux driver build... image
Intel Adds Another Battlemage BMG-G21 PCI ID To Their Linux Driver Intel has introduced another new PCI device ID to their open-source Linux graphics driver stack for signifying another likely product on the way based on the Battlemage BMG-G21 GPU... image
Linux Mint 22.2 Beta Increases Wayland Compatibility, UI Enhancements The beta release of Linux Mint 22.2 "Zara" is now available for testing of this popular desktop Linux distribution built atop an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base... image
Intel 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… image
Logitech G13 Linux Support Patch Proposed 16 Years After Hardware Release With the increased popularity of Linux gaming these days, a patch has been proposed to improve the hardware support for the Logitech G13 gameboard under Linux. The only problem is the hardware is now 16 years old and since been discontinued... image
GNOME Shell 49 Beta Finally Brings Media Controls To The Lock Screen In preparing for the GNOME 49 beta release, GNOME Shell this weekend released 49.beta.1 with a few changes worth highlighting... image
Vulkan 1.4.325 Released With Untyped Pointers Extension Vulkan 1.4.325 was released on Friday with one new extension in tow: VK_KHR_shader_untyped_pointers for untyped pointers... image