The Brutalist Report

Phoronix

• Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Moving To OpenJDK 25 By Default [32d]
• Intel Vulkan Driver Lands One-Line Change That Can Bring Minor Performance Benefits [32d]
• Turbostat With Linux 7.0 Can Report New L2 Cache Statistics [33d]
• AI Helped Uncover A "50-80x Improvement" For Linux's IO_uring [33d]
• Gigabyte MZ33-AR1: A Uniquely Positioned AMD EPYC 9005 Motherboard For Open-Source Firmware [33d]
• AMD Announces hipThreads For Easier Porting Of C++ Code To GPUs [33d]
• Mediatek MT7902 WiFi Finally Seeing Open-Source Linux Driver Activity [33d]
• Weston 15.0 Wayland Compositor Released With Vulkan Renderer, New Protocols [33d]
• Linux 7.0 Speeds Up Reclaiming File-Backed Large Folios By 50~75% [33d]
• Simdjson Shows More Speed-Ups Possible For SIMD In JSON Parsing: Another 30% Boost [33d]
• PipeWire 1.6 Released With Many New Features [33d]
• Linux Still Working To Clean Up The Realtek RTL8723BS 802.11b/g/n WiFi Driver In 2026 [33d]