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Steam Adds 61 Native Linux Titles April 1-8, Comprising 13.5% of New Releases

Boiling Steam reported that 61 new games with native Linux builds were released on the Steam platform between April 1st and April 8th. This represents approximately 13.5% of the total new releases on ...

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D7VK 1.7 Released, Enhances Direct3D 3-7 API Translation for Vulkan

The open-source D7VK project released version 1.7 today, April 12, 2026, bringing further improvements for running legacy Microsoft Direct3D APIs on top of Vulkan. D7VK, which started as a fork of DXV...

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AMD GPUOpen Releases MiniDXNN for Fast DX12 MLP Inference on RX 9000 Matrix Cores

AMD GPUOpen today announced the release of MiniDXNN, a new native HLSL and DirectX 12 library designed for machine learning inference. This library specifically targets rapid Multi-Layer Perceptron (M...

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RADV & RadeonSI Drivers Add AMD GFX11.7 "RDNA 4m" GPU Support

Mesa developers posted patches this week to enable support for AMD's GFX11.7 "RDNA 4m" graphics hardware within the RADV Vulkan driver and RadeonSI Gallium3D OpenGL driver. This integration provides c...

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Ollama v0.20.5 Debuts OpenClaw Multi-Channel Integration, Gemma 4 Flash Attention

Ollama v0.20.5 was released on April 9, 2026, introducing significant new features for local AI model interaction and performance. The update includes the OpenClaw channel setup, which allows users to...

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Intel Jay Shader Compiler Merged into Mesa 26.1-devel for ANV/Iris Drivers

Intel's new shader compiler, codenamed "Jay," was merged into the Mesa 26.1-devel branch earlier today. This compiler is designed for Intel GPUs running on Linux, specifically supporting their ANV Vul...

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Miracle-WM v0.9 Adds WebAssembly Plugin System, Rust API

A new version of Miracle-WM, a tiling window manager built around the Wayland compositor Mir, was released recently. Version 0.9 introduces a WebAssembly plugin system and a new Rust API. Developer Ma...

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FEX 2604 Delivers Memory Savings and Performance for x86_64 Apps on ARM64

FEX 2604, the latest monthly update for the FEX emulator, was released today. This new version brings further performance improvements and memory savings for running Linux x86/x86_64 binaries on AArch...

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AMD GPUOpen Launches MinDXNN, DirectX 12 MLP Lib for RX 9000 Matrix Cores

AMD GPUOpen recently introduced MinDXNN, a new native HLSL and DirectX 12 library designed for lightning-fast Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) inference. The library targets AMD Radeon RX 9000 series grap...

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Linux 7.0 Merges Support for Three New AI Agent Interaction Keys

The Linux 7.0 kernel, currently nearing its stable release, today gained support for three additional standardized keycodes designed for AI agent interactions on future PC hardware. This merge expands...

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Intel Arc Pro B70 Linux Benchmarks Detail AI, OpenCL, OpenGL, Vulkan Performance

Intel Arc Pro B70, a Battlemage G31 graphics card featuring 32 Xe cores and 32GB of GDDR6 memory, received initial Linux benchmarks this week from Phoronix. The card was announced last month, and Phor...

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Collabora details GStreamer 1.28 updates: HW accel, HDR Wayland, AI inference

Collabora's multimedia engineering team recently detailed significant enhancements to GStreamer 1.28. These updates, contributed by 16 individuals, include major improvements across the multimedia sta...

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XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.20.4 Released, Fixes Host File Deletion Vulnerability

XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.20.4 was released yesterday, April 7, 2026, to address a security vulnerability. This update prevents sandboxed applications from being able to delete arbitrary host files on the ...

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PCSX2 v2.7.231 Adds Per-Game Video Capture Storage Option in Qt Frontend

PCSX2, the PlayStation 2 emulator, released version v2.7.231 today, April 8, 2026. This update introduces a new organizational feature for users utilizing the emulator's Qt-based graphical interface. ...

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Ollama v0.20.0 Introduces Gemma 4 Models; v0.20.4-rc Improves MLX & Flash Attention

Ollama recently released version 0.20.0, which introduces support for the Gemma 4 series of large language models. This includes "Effective 2B (E2B)", "Effective 4B (E4B)", "26B (Mixture of Experts mo...

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