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For those that happen to have a Google Stadia gaming controller from the days of Google's cloud gaming service, the Linux 6.6 kernel is adding a new driver to enable force feedback (rumble) support with these controllers.

The reverse-engineered Etnaviv DRM driver for providing open-source graphics support for Vivante graphics IP has prepared a new set of improvements for the upcoming Linux 6.6 kernel cycle.

It was less than one month ago that Intel announced AVX10 as the successor to AVX-512

While back in November was when AWS originally announced new EC2 instances powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC 'Genoa' processors, only this week did they bring their M7a general purpose instances to a general availability state where anyone can access them.

While Intel has maintained the QATzip open-source compression library for demonstrating data compression using QuickAssist Technology (QAT) with DEFLATE/LZ4/LZ4s, Intel has also been working on QAT'ed Zstd for achieving some sizable victories in performance and power efficiency.

Intel engineer Ilpo Järvinen posted a set of Linux kernel driver patches to introduce a new 'bwctrl' PCI Express Bandwidth Controller driver and associated PCIe cooling driver to allow for limiting the PCIe link speed in the event of any system thermal issues.

A few minutes ago AMD sent out the very first open-source Linux kernel graphics driver patches for enabling the 'GFX 11.5' graphics engine.

Intel this afternoon released the Xe Super Sampling (XeSS) v1.2 SDK as this gaming image upscaling tech that leverages AI deep learning for better performance and less image degradation on Intel Arc Graphics as well as from other GPU vendors.

In addition to Debian promoting RISC-V to an official CPU architecture for the newly in development Debian 13 cycle, another CPU architecture/port change is adding LoongArch 'Loong64' as a new Debian Port.

Distrobox as the open-source project allowing easy access to running other distributions/apps via Podman and Docker has merged support for ChromeOS.