Vulkan 1.4.329 Released With New Fused-Multiply Add Extension Vulkan 1.4.329 is now available with one notable new extension in tow... image
Python 3.14 Performance Running Strong In Benchmarks With this week's release of Python 3.14 bringing performance improvements, debugging improvements, a new Zstd compression module, and other enhancements I have been eager to run some benchmarks seeing how Python 3.14 compares to prior Python releases. image
NVIDIA Posts Latest Linux Driver Patches For Open-Source vGPU Support Just over one year ago NVIDIA posted open-source Linux GPU driver code for GPU virtualization "vGPU" support. That NVIDIA vGPU driver work was recently revised while still posted under a request for comments (RFC) flag... image
GCC Patches Posted For C++26 SIMD Support One of the exciting additions on the way for the C++26 programming language is a standardized library around Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) operations. This portable SIMD implementation makes it easier to leverage SIMD and data parallelism in C++ for better performance and to work across SIMD architectures like AVX-512... image
New Input Drivers Merged For Linux 6.18 In addition to last week's HID subsystem pull that brought haptic touchpad support and other exciting additions for Linux 6.18, the input subsystem pull was merged this week to introduce a few new input drivers... image
Intel's Lead Engineer For Linux Performance Monitoring Is Leaving The Company This morning while finishing up work on the concerning Intel open-source comments from Intel Tech Tour in Arizona and summing up the declining open-source contributions and departures of numerous Intel open-source/Linux developers from the company, yet another Linux engineering departure crossed my wire... image
OpenGL Mesh Shader Extension Merged Proposed last year was GL_EXT_mesh_shader as a cross-vendor mesh shading extension. That OpenGL mesh shader work led by an AMD engineer was merged today into the OpenGL Registry... image
Blender 5.0 Beta Builds Available Ahead Of Next Month's Official Release Beta builds of the Blender 5.0 3D modeling software are now available ahead of the planned stable release in mid-November... image
GCC 16 Compiler Shifting To "Stage 3" Development Next Month The GNU Compiler Collection will be shifting to its "stage three" development in November as focusing more on bug fixing now and new ports and less on existing compiler functionality/features... image
Python 3.14 Released With Performance Improvements, Free-Threading & Zstd Python 3.14 is now available as the newest annual major feature release for the Python programming language... image