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Following the recent addition of Panther Lake support to its Linux NPU user-space driver, Intel has now published firmware for the neural processing unit (NPU) in its upcoming Panther Lake processors. Reported by Phoronix, this completes the Linux driver ecosystem and enables full AI feature integration on Linux systems.

December 19, 2025 Ti AI ṣe iroyin

The Linux firmware updater fwupd has released version 2.0.19, introducing support for the Lenovo Sapphire Folio keyboard. Developed by Richard Hughes, this update marks the nineteenth maintenance release in the 2.0 series. It includes enhancements for command-line tools and bug fixes for improved reliability.