Arrow Lake Support Added To The Intel Graphics Compiler

Intel on Thursday committed Arrow Lake "ARL" support to their open-source Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) that is used by their Compute Runtime stack for OpenCL and Level Zero while on Windows IGC is additionally used as their graphics shader compiler as well...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Arrow-Lake-IGC

Noctua NH-U14S & NH-D9 Air Cooling For The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X

For those wondering about the air cooling prospects for DIY builds with the new 350 Watt AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series processors, here's a brief look at the new Noctua heatsink options for the Socket sTR5 processors and the results in use with a Threadripper 7980X 64-core / 128-thread workstation.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/noctua-threadripper-7980x

Mesa 23.3-rc5 Released With The Latest Open-Source GPU Driver Fixes

Eric Engestrom on Friday released the fifth weekly release candidate of Mesa 23.3 with this quarterly stable release hopefully debuting in the next week...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-23.3-rc5-Released

KDE Is Down To Just One Wayland Showstopper Bug Remaining

The KDE Plasma 6.0 feature freeze is quickly approaching and the Plasma Wayland showstopper bug list is nearly cleared out for being able to endorse the Plasma Wayland session over X11...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-One-Wayland-Showstopper

Firefox 121 Is Looking Good For Having Wayland Enabled By Default

Firefox 121 is aiming to ship with Wayland support enabled by default rather than falling back to XWayland on modern Linux desktops. So far things are looking up for this indeed remaining the case for next month's Firefox 121 stable release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-121-Wayland-Good