AV2 Codec Looks Like It Will Be Officially Released Next Week
… A Phoronix reader pointed to this latest commit bumping the project version as well as the SO version of AV2. …
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A Lot Of Memory Management "MM" Improvements Merged For Linux 7.1
… Linux 7.1 kernel Git benchmarks beginning in the coming days on Phoronix. …
Germany cuts Steam Deck desktop devs a $1.5 million cheque
In a nice bit of news for True Linux Patriots everywhere, Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency has dedicated €1.3 million of its Sovereign Tech Fund about $1.5 million / £1.1 million to the KDE free and open-source FOSS software community via Phoronix . …
Gaim 3 Is In Development For Restoring The Original Gaim Instant Messaging App In GTK4
… Some old screenshots from the early days of Phoronix: Or if really wanting to bring back memories, the Lindows/Linspire take on Gaim: As much surprise today, it turns out Gaim is back in development with the AIM trademark abandoned. …
RAM is getting expensive, so squeeze the most from it
… Phoronix reports that the new patch could make some zram operations 50 percent faster. …
Cybersecurity
… Meta has paused work with the company, Mercor which The Verge has profiled , while OpenAI is investigating the security incident, Wired reports . …
Meta's CacheLib Sees New Release After Two Year Hiatus For Helping With High DRAM Prices
… And, surprisingly, Meta is out with a new CacheLib release after being absent the past two years. CacheLib was originally started to help with caching on non-volatile memory drives to augment their existing DRAM-based caching of services at Facebook/Meta. …
Meta Optimizing /proc/interrupts Reading As It's Too Costly At Scale: 29% Speedup
… In Meta's fleet, we have observed this overhead at scale. …
OpenZL 0.2 Released For Meta's Content-Aware Compression Software
OpenZL 0.2 Released For Meta's Content-Aware Compression Software Written by Michael Larabel in Free Software on 8 May 2026 at 06:26 AM EDT. 14 Comments Last October engineers at Meta announced OpenZL as a format-aware compression framework . …
Meta Has A New Linux Optimization To Avoid Throttling TCP Throughput Unnecessarily
Meta Has A New Linux Optimization To Avoid Throttling TCP Throughput Unnecessarily Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 3 April 2026 at 08:25 AM EDT. …