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Hyprland v0.55.4 Fixes Gestures, Popups, and Renderer SEGV on Monitor Disconnect

Hyprland, the Wayland compositor, recently released version 0.55.4, described as "Another small round of patches on top of 0.55.3." This update primarily focuses on stability and user experience impro...

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AMD Opens Pre-Orders for Linux-Friendly Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform

AMD today announced the opening of pre-orders for its Ryzen AI Halo developer platform. This petite PC is powered by the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" processor and is designed to operate with both M...

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Xemu Development Build Integrates JIT DSP56300 Emulator, Improves Halo 2 Audio

The Xemu project recently updated its development build, introducing a significant backend change with a new DSP56300 emulator. This emulator now incorporates a Just-In-Time (JIT) execution engine, de...

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Khronos Announces glTF 2.1 Plans for Complex 3D Scene Interoperability

The Khronos 3D Formats Working Group announced today plans for glTF 2.1, a backward-compatible revision of the core specification. This update is specifically designed to improve the format's handling...

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AMD Radeon Developer Tool Suite Updates RGP 2.7 with Shader Source, Extended PIX Markers

AMD GPUOpen recently announced an update to its Radeon Developer Tool Suite. The release delivers RGP 2.7, which now includes "shader source code viewing" and instruction-level divergence metrics. The...

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Xemu v0.8.136 Boosts Performance with x86-64-v3 Optimizations, Improves UI Scaling

The xemu-project released version 0.8.136 of its Xbox emulator yesterday, June 10. This update notably enables x86-64-v3 architectural optimizations for release builds, which can lead to improved perf...

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Khronos' Plourde Discusses OpenXR Status, Previews Multi-App Support

Khronos' Frederic Plourde was interviewed by Thomas Bedenk on the Spatial Realities podcast, released today, discussing the current state and future direction of OpenXR. Plourde provided an update on ...

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Intel Open Image Denoise 2.5 Boosts Performance on Intel GPUs

Intel released Open Image Denoise (OID) version 2.5 last week. This open-source project provides a high-performance denoising library essential for ray-tracing applications, used in rendering software...

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Mesa RADV Driver Now Uses RDNA3+ INST_PREF_SIZE for Better Cache Prefetching

The Mesa Radeon Vulkan (RADV) driver has recently integrated support for the wavefront begins execution.">INST_PREF_SIZE hardware feature on RDNA3 and newer RDNA4 GPUs. This capability, initially introduced with AMD's RDNA3 (GFX1...

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Khronos Group Standardizes 3D Gaussian Splats in glTF with New Extension

Khronos Group President Neil Trevett recently announced the new glTF extension that standardizes the integration of 3D Gaussian splats into the format.">KHR_gaussian_splatting extension for glTF. This extension integrates 3D Gaussian splats into the royalty-free open format, aiming to sta...

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Vortex 3.0 Released, Integrates 3D Pipeline into Open-Source RISC-V GPGPU

The open-source developers at Georgia Tech have released Vortex 3.0 today, a major update to their OpenCL-compatible RISC-V GPGPU implementation. This new version incorporates a complete 3D pipeline, ...

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UWA, Khronos Release First glTF-based Spatial Imaging Standard for 3DGS

The UHD World Association (UWA), in technical coordination with the Khronos Group's 3D Formats Working Group, announced today the release of the industry's first spatial imaging standard for 3D Gaussi...

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Wayland Protocols 1.49 Released with Improved Multi-GPU and BT.2100 Support

Simon Ser just published Wayland Protocols 1.49, the latest version of the core Wayland protocol definitions. This release introduces improved multi-GPU support, which is intended to enhance how multi...

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"Flatten The Pick" v3 Patches Aim for Improved Linux cgroup Scheduling

A third iteration of "flatten the pick" Linux kernel patches was recently posted, continuing efforts to enhance cgroup scheduling. This ongoing work is designed to improve gaming performance, particul...

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Firefox Merges Initial Vulkan Video Decoding Support

Mozilla Firefox has recently merged initial support for Vulkan Video decoding, enabling GPU-accelerated video processing within the web browser. This integration leverages the Vulkan API to offload vi...

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