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Online reactions to Nvidia's DLSS 5 announcement have spawned memes redefining the acronym with 'slop' and skepticism mistaking it for an April Fool's prank, despite occurring in March.
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The Linux kernel 7.1 includes updates to the AMDGPU driver, introducing support for AMD DCN 4.2 IP and GFX 12.1. These enhancements also cover GCN 1.1 APU DC. The developments were reported by Phoronix.
The open-source Mesa 26.0 graphics driver has received an update to its NVK Vulkan driver, enhancing performance for NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 20 series Turing GPUs. This improvement aims to bolster compatibility in Linux environments. Phoronix reports the change as a key advancement in open-source graphics support.
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NVIDIA has launched the 590.48.01 graphics driver, the first stable release in the 590 'New Feature' series for Linux, BSD, and Solaris systems. Following last week's 580.119.02 production branch, it enhances Wayland compatibility, Vulkan performance, and fixes bugs while raising minimum software requirements.
Verisilicon DC8200 and Coreboot framebuffer drivers submitted for Linux 7.1
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