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Open-source Vulkan driver NVK gains experimental DLSS support — bringing Nvidia’s upscaling tech to Linux via imported CUDA binaries

… Nvidia's proprietary Linux driver has of course handled DLSS for years, so the change closes one of the bigger gaps between the closed driver and its open-source counterpart, rather than bringing the technology to Linux for the first time. …

Jun 21, 2026 · Luke James

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AMD's legendary K5, its first independently-designed processor, is being removed from the Linux kernel — 4.3-million-transistor chip gets the axe because it lacks Time Stamp Counter (TSC) support, making it a coding burden

… The Linux-watchers at Phoronix noticed the forced retirement of the venerable K5 in a recent patch designed to “remove support for TSC-less Pentium variants.” The lack of TSC Time Stamp Counter in the K5 apparently makes it a burden for developers to support in the kernel. …

May 10, 2026 · Mark Tyson

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Jensen Huang says 'every edge device will become autonomous' — Nvidia maps one computing pattern from the cloud to robotics

… Phoronix's first public Vera benchmarks in May measured it roughly 10% ahead of AMD's 64-core EPYC 9575F and about 55% ahead of Intel's 128-core Xeon 6980P across selected Linux workloads. …

Jun 5, 2026 · Luke James