Natalie Vock as one of the open-source developers on Valve’s Linux graphics team has been spearheading another big ray-tracing performance improvement for the AMD Radeon Vulkan...
Read moreA new feature in the queue for likely introduction with the next version of the Linux kernel (Linux 6.20~7.0) is compiler-based context and locking analysis. This...
Read moreNvidia’s CES announcements didn’t have much for consumers, but affects them all the same.
Read moreNandan Nilekani can’t stop trying to push India into the future. He started nearly 30 years ago, masterminding an ongoing experiment in technological state capacity that...
Read moreFor those with Acer laptops running Linux on GitHub there has been an out-of-tree driver providing an experimental “acer-wmi-battery” kernel module to allow controlling battery-related features....
Read moreBack in October was an initial proposal for a DRM splash screen client for the Linux kernel that would be primarily useful for embedded systems for...
Read moreHas work felt “different” to you? You show up, do your work, fix what needs fixing, and get the job done, but the excitement isn’t quite...
Read moreOver on [Ken Shirriff]’s blog is a tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips. WARNING: contains 8-bit assembly code. The Trinity of 1977...
Read moreIntel announced yesterday that it’s developing an entire “handheld gaming platform” powered by its new Panther Lake chips, and joining an increasingly competitive field. Qualcomm is...
Read moreAs an electromagnetic radiation phenomenon, it’s perhaps not so surprising that light is affected by a magnetic field. This Faraday effect (FE) has been used since...
Read moreWhile most attention in the AI race is focused on model builders and cloud platforms, Lenovo sits closer to millions of users than most companies. As...
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