The FOSS Force News Wire pulls mostly FOSS related news stories from a variety of sources and is updated every 30 minutes. The News Wire is also available as an RSS feed at http://fossforce.com/newswire. Time stamps are in UTC, so “4 hours ago” means it was published this hour EDT.
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NVK Vulkan Performance Improving With Mesa 26.2 Against NVIDIA Proprietary Driver
The performance of the Nouveau kernel driver with the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver continues to improve each feature release in its quest...Read more
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Linux Saloon 210 | Early Edition July
The content discusses various topics in technology and Linux, such as hardware setups like the Warthunder Sim Rig, font management in Linux,...Read more
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Waymo says San Francisco service has resumed after one-hour pause
This isn’t the first time power outages have caused issues for Waymo.Read more
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This Week In Techdirt History: July 12th – 18th
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Kimi: Threat or menace?
Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new version of its Kimi model this week, prompting concern about "full AI communism."Read more
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"Half a Second" — a book on the XZ backdoor
Adrian Mastronardi has released a book called Half a Second; it is a detailed look into the XZ backdoor attempt of 2024....Read more
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Three stable kernel updates
The 7.1.4, 6.18.39, and 6.12.96 stable kernel updates have been released; each contains a fairly large set of important fixes.Read more
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All the EVs that were discontinued or killed off in the U.S. this year
Th Honda Prologue will no longer be sold in the U.S., joining a growing list of EV models to exit the market...Read more
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Federal employees can download TikTok on their work phones again
The Department of Justice says that federal employees can now download TikTok on their government devices.Read more
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D7VK 2.0 released with more performance fixes for retro Direct3D games on Linux
Love your classic retro games? D7VK 2.0 is out now to bring more performance improvements for running retro Direct3D games on Linux.Read...Read more -
The Weekend of the (Geopolitical) World Cup is Here
From FIFA seeking ever-more money, to Trump making himself the story, to the ups and downs of games themselves, the World Cup...Read more -
DXVK 3.0.2 brings bug fixes for Dying Light: The Beast, Halo and more on Linux / SteamOS
Direct 3D 8, 9, 10 and 11 to Vulkan layer DXVK has a new bug fix release out, sorting some issues in...Read more -
A 600-mile road trip (and data) proves EV charging doesn’t suck anymore
A recent road trip in an EV revealed just how much faster and more reliable DC Fast charging has become in the...Read more
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AMD Linux Graphics Driver Preps Fix For Apple Studio Display
This week's batch of AMDGPU Display Core "DC" updates arrived heavy with 70 new patches for improving that open-source display support for...Read more
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DebConf26 welcomes its sponsors
DebConf26, the 27th edition of the Debian conference is taking place at the Facultad de Ingeniería en Ciencias Hídricas of the Universidad...Read more
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Best Kiwix ZIM Files to Download for Your Offline Knowledge Library
Discover best ZIM files, storage planning, library management, and everything you need to build a offline knowledge library with Kiwix. The post...Read more
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GNOME OS Safe Mode Improving The System Reliability
At GNOME's annual GUADEC conference happening this week in Spain, an update was shared on the current state of GNOME OS...Read more
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KDE Plasma 6.8 System Monitor Making It Easier Assigning Processes To CPU Cores
Nate Graham and John Veness are out with the latest issue of This Week in Plasma to highlight all of the interesting...Read more
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UXL's oneDNN 3.13 Preps For Intel Nova Lake With AVX10.2, More Intel Optimizations
Following the release of AMD's ZenDNN 6.0 earlier this month, there is a new feature release of the oneDNN neural network library...Read more
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D7VK 2.0 Released With Some Nice Performance Improvements: Up To 2x Or More
In addition to Friday night's release of DXVK 3.0.2, debuting separately a short time later was D7VK 2.0 as the latest major...Read more