The Book You Need to Start With Linux Kernel Development (itsfoss.com)
Open-source project ZLUDA lets CUDA apps run on AMD GPUs (www.cgchannel.com)
Andrzej Janik has released ZLUDA 3, a new version of his open-source project that enables GPU-based applications designed for NVIDIA GPUs to run on other manufacturers’ hardware. The wrapper technology is designed to enable existing applications to run on new hardware unmodified, without the need for any work on their...
GDB 14.2 released (sourceware.org)
Release 14.2 of GDB, the GNU Debugger, is now available. GDB is a source-level debugger for Ada, C, C++, Fortran, Go, Rust, and many other languages. GDB can target (i.e., debug programs running on) more than a dozen different processor architectures, and GDB itself can run on most popular GNU/Linux, Unix and Microsoft Windows...
Vulkan 1.3.279 Brings New NVIDIA Extension Co-Engineered By Valve (www.phoronix.com)
Vulkan 1.3.279 debuted on Friday with many fixes/clarifications to the specifications plus one new extension. The VK_NV_raw_access_chains extemsion should allow for more efficient shaders compiled from HLSL sources.
How video games use LUTs and how you can too (blog.frost.kiwi)
RISC-V extensions: what’s available and how to find them (research.redhat.com)
Extensions available in RISC-V enable the customizations that make it ideal as a basis for open innovation. Here’s the extension situation as it stands today.
OpenXR Tutorial (Linux with Vulkan) (openxr-tutorial.com)
This tutorial will teach you how to use the OpenXR API. OpenXR is an API managed by the Khronos Group which provides a cross-platform way for applications to interact with immersive devices. This includes virtual reality (VR) headsets, augmented reality (AR) devices, motion controllers and more.
Ogre 14.2 released (www.ogre3d.org)
Encoding tic-tac-toe in 15 bits (cbarrick.dev)
Improving filtering for the Vulkan hardware database (www.saschawillems.de)
Eight years after launching the Vulkan database to the public, it’s approaching 30,000 uploaded reports from more than 3,300 different devices across Windows, Linux, Android, MacOS and iOS. With that much data available, good filtering capabilities are crucial.
The Death of Voice Has Been Greatly Exaggerated (blog.telegeography.com)
A Visual Interactive Guide to Bloom Filters (samwho.dev)
Steam Audio SDK and all included plugins now opensource under Apache-2.0 license (steamcommunity.com)
We are excited to announce that with the latest release of Steam Audio, the complete source code of the Steam Audio SDK is now available as open source. With this release, our goal is to provide more control to developers, which will lead to better experiences for their users, and hopefully valuable contributions back to the...
Looking for a few good project ideas that are ideally good for internship or full-time entry-level jobs for 2024
2022 grad, missed the narrow gap for getting a job, and in this recession, it’s been really hard to get one. I’m sick of the tutorial hell. It will also be hard to explain this gap for master’s degree, and I also don’t want to take a loan for master’s, so right now, I want to be able to get a job to fill my resume/CV....
A new kind of workflow + tool for visualizing and exploring datasets through the lens of latent spaces. (github.com)
Where do I look out for an accountability partner or a mentor?
I am trying to complete a few web-based projects as well as a developer portfolio. I am also learning C from scratch. I would appreciate it if I had an opportunity to take part in an open-source project that is based on system programming, or something like that.
Jotai takes an atomic approach to global React state management (github.com)
Texture healing for monospaced fonts (github.com)
AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source (www.phoronix.com)
Recommendations on architecture for game AI tournament
I’m planning on creating an AI tournament as a project to test out some of the potential AI performance in a game, eg tic-tac-toe....
Slint is a declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for Rust, C++, or JavaScript apps. (github.com)
Scientists Find Optimal Balance of Data Storage and Time (www.quantamagazine.org)
C Is Not a Low-level Language. Your computer is not a fast PDP-11. (queue.acm.org)
Why We Can't Have Nice Software (andrewkelley.me)
Qt SVG: Not so 1.2 Tiny any more (www.qt.io)
With this step, we are opening Qt SVG up to support elements beyond SVG Tiny 1.2. This means that we will aim to include useful and common elements from SVG 1.1 and SVG 2.0, if maintenance is reasonably feasible. We will not aim for compliance with these standards but we will keep an eye on feature requests from our users....