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GCC 16 Compiler Steps Closer To Release With Algol 68 Frontend, AMD Zen 6, C++20 Default
Jan 13, 2026 1:06 AMGCC 16 as this year's major feature release of the GNU Compiler Collection should be out in the typical March~April timeframe if all goes well. Today the GCC 16 compiler transitioned to its final stage "stage 4" of development with a focus exclusively on documentation and regression fixing...Wine 11.0 Planned For Release Tomorrow With NTSync Support, Better WoW64
Jan 12, 2026 8:57 PMWine project leader Alexandre Julliard relayed on the mailing list today that the plan is to release Wine 11.0 stable tomorrow, 13 January...The Surprising Spectre BHI Mitigation Performance Impact On Meteor Lake
Jan 12, 2026 6:38 PMWhen recently carrying out performance benchmarks of Intel Meteor Lake performance on Linux since launch day two years ago, the geo mean came in at 93% the original performance. Finding the performance trending clearly lower with an up-to-date Linux software stack compared to in December 2023 was quite surprising considering the rather nice gains we have seen over time on other Intel/AMD hardware. As noted in that article though, one of the possible explanations there is the Spectre BHI "Branch History Injection" vulnerability and microcode plus Linux kernel mitigations having come out post-launch and affecting Meteor Lake CPUs. Sure enough, follow-up tests looking at the Spectre BHI impact have revealed a measurable cost in a number of workloads for the Core Ultra processor.Tinygrad 0.12 Released With Mesa NIR/NAK Support
Jan 12, 2026 5:35 PMTinygrad 0.12 is out today for this deep learning stack led by George Hotz...Firefox 147 Now Available With XDG Base Directory Specification Support
Jan 12, 2026 2:33 PMFirefox 147.0 release binaries have hit the Mozilla servers today as the latest monthly update to this open-source web browser. Firefox 147 is exciting for Linux users in finally delivering XDG Base Directory Specification support...