Microsoft clarifies Windows 11 printer driver policy - support for legacy printers is not ending

Microsoft clarifies Windows 11 printer driver policy - support for legacy printers is not ending

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In the driver's seat: How Google Conductor AI actually stays under control

In the driver's seat: How Google Conductor AI actually stays under control

• We’re so glad you’re here • You can expect all the best TNS content to arrive Monday through Friday to keep you on top of the news and at the top of your game • Check y

Titanium multitool shoots out nine functions, including a ratcheting driver

Titanium multitool shoots out nine functions, including a ratcheting driver

• Titanium multitool shoots out nine functions, including a ratcheting driver Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Flipboard Email ‘Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy

AMD's HIP Moves To Using LLVM's New Offload Driver By Default

AMD's HIP Moves To Using LLVM's New Offload Driver By Default

• AMD’s HIP Moves To Using LLVM’s New Offload Driver By Default A change merged to upstream LLVM Git yesterday for LLVM 23 is moving AMD’s HIP to using the new/modern offload drive

OS & Internals · February 24, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 279 words
Mesa PanVK Driver Seeing Up To 25.7x Speedup For MSAA

Mesa PanVK Driver Seeing Up To 25.7x Speedup For MSAA

• Mesa PanVK Driver Seeing Up To 25.7x Speedup For MSAA The open-source PanVK driver providing Vulkan support for modern Arm Mali graphics hardware is seeing big speed-ups in the m

OS & Internals · February 24, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 391 words

Microchip Adds 12 Devices in 600 V Gate Driver Family

• The 600 V gate driver family offers 12 devices for motor control and power conversion, supporting fast switching and noise immunity. • The 600 V gate driver family offers 12 devi

Electronics & EE · February 24, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 1 min · 147 words

ST Launches LVDS Driver for High-Speed Data and Low-Voltage Logic

• A space-grade quad LVDS line driver targets modern spacecraft data links with 600-Mbps throughput and wide-range CMOS compatibility. • A space-grade quad LVDS line driver targets

Electronics & EE · February 24, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 1 min · 142 words
Qualcomm Posts Patches For New DSP Accelerator Linux Driver

Qualcomm Posts Patches For New DSP Accelerator Linux Driver

• Qualcomm Posts Patches For New DSP Accelerator Linux Driver The newest driver proposed for the Linux kernel’s accelerator ‘accel’ subsystem is named QDA and is a Qualcomm DSP Acc

OS & Internals · February 23, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 351 words
Modern AMD Graphics Driver Surpasses Six Million Lines Of Code In Linux 7.0

Modern AMD Graphics Driver Surpasses Six Million Lines Of Code In Linux 7.0

• Modern AMD Graphics Driver Surpasses Six Million Lines Of Code In Linux 7.0 It was less than four years ago that the modern AMDGPU/AMDKFD open-source driver stack was at four mil

OS & Internals · February 23, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 376 words
Intel ANV Driver Sees Several Vulkan Video H.265 Encode Fixes

Intel ANV Driver Sees Several Vulkan Video H.265 Encode Fixes

• Intel ANV Driver Sees Several Vulkan Video H.265 Encode Fixes For those interested in Vulkan Video on the Intel ‘ANV’ open-source Linux driver, merged last week to Mesa 26.1-deve

OS & Internals · February 23, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 377 words

Microchip Adds 12 Devices in 600 V Gate Driver Family

• The 600 V gate driver family offers 12 devices for motor control and power conversion, supporting fast switching and noise immunity.

Electronics & EE · February 22, 2026 (updated February 23, 2026) · 1 min · 99 words

ST Launches LVDS Driver for High-Speed Data and Low-Voltage Logic

• A space-grade quad LVDS line driver targets modern spacecraft data links with 600-Mbps throughput and wide-range CMOS compatibility.

Electronics & EE · February 22, 2026 (updated February 23, 2026) · 1 min · 100 words
EV driver shares surprising, real-world data after installing solar panels

EV driver shares surprising, real-world data after installing solar panels

• Solar power EV Charging EV driver shares surprising, real-world data after installing solar panels Are you wondering how much it would cost to charge up your EV if you added a ho

Mesa KosmicKrisp Driver Is Coming To iOS, More Performance & Vulkan 1.4 Expected

Mesa KosmicKrisp Driver Is Coming To iOS, More Performance & Vulkan 1.4 Expected

• Mesa KosmicKrisp Driver Is Coming To iOS, More Performance & Vulkan 1.4 Expected Last year LunarG announced KosmicKrisp as a new Vulkan implementation atop Apple’s Metal API. • I

OS & Internals · February 20, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 258 words
USB Driver For Google Tensor SoCs, UCSI Thunderbolt Alt Mode In Linux 7.0

USB Driver For Google Tensor SoCs, UCSI Thunderbolt Alt Mode In Linux 7.0

• USB Driver For Google Tensor SoCs, UCSI Thunderbolt Alt Mode In Linux 7.0 All of the Thunderbolt/USB driver changes were merged this week for the nearly-over Linux 7.0 merge wind

OS & Internals · February 20, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 238 words
MediaTek MT7902 wireless chipset finally gets a Linux driver

MediaTek MT7902 wireless chipset finally gets a Linux driver

• MediaTek MT7902 wireless modules are used in many Windows laptops, but so far, a Linux driver has been missing. • This is about to change, as Mediatek has finally committed a pat

Open Hardware · February 20, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 256 words
Intel Vulkan Driver Lands One-Line Change That Can Bring Minor Performance Benefits

Intel Vulkan Driver Lands One-Line Change That Can Bring Minor Performance Benefits

• Intel Vulkan Driver Lands One-Line Change That Can Bring Minor Performance Benefits Merged today to Mesa 26.1 Git is a one-line change to the Intel ‘ANV’ Vulkan driver that is sh

OS & Internals · February 19, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 265 words

Automotive high-side driver withstands cold crank

• ST’s VNQ9050LAJ 4-channel high-side driver controls 12-V automotive ground-connected loads via a 3-V and 5-V CMOS-compatible interface. • Operating from 4-V to 28-V with typical

Electronics & EE · February 19, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 1 min · 201 words
Linux Still Working To Clean Up The Realtek RTL8723BS 802.11b/g/n WiFi Driver In 2026

Linux Still Working To Clean Up The Realtek RTL8723BS 802.11b/g/n WiFi Driver In 2026

• Linux Still Working To Clean Up The Realtek RTL8723BS 802.11b/g/n WiFi Driver In 2026 Introduced to the Linux 4.12 kernel’s staging area back in 2017 was the Realtek RTL8723BS Wi

Linux & Open Source · February 19, 2026 (updated February 20, 2026) · 1 min · 167 words
Linux 7.0 Retires The IBM Mwave ACP Modem Driver Used By Some 1990s ThinkPads

Linux 7.0 Retires The IBM Mwave ACP Modem Driver Used By Some 1990s ThinkPads

• Linux 7.0 Retires The IBM Mwave ACP Modem Driver Used By Some 1990s ThinkPads Long past due for retirement, the Linux 7.0 kernel has removed the obsolete Mwave driver for the 378

Linux & Open Source · February 18, 2026 (updated February 20, 2026) · 1 min · 159 words
Treasury bills seen as primary driver of Bitcoin's price: Report

Treasury bills seen as primary driver of Bitcoin's price: Report

• Treasury bills seen as primary driver of Bitcoin’s price: Report New Keyrock research finds not all newly created money impacts risk assets due to how fresh liquidity flows throu

FinTech · February 18, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 165 words
NTFS3 Driver Sees Improvements In Linux 7.0 While 'NTFS Remake' Driver Bakes

NTFS3 Driver Sees Improvements In Linux 7.0 While 'NTFS Remake' Driver Bakes

• NTFS3 driver merged into Linux 7.0 mainline kernel, enhancing NTFS support. • New readahead optimizes bitmap initialization efficiently for large directory scans. • fsync now syn

Linux & Open Source · February 18, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 73 words
Linux 7.0 Lands New TI RGB LED Driver With 'Autonomous Animation Engine' Control

Linux 7.0 Lands New TI RGB LED Driver With 'Autonomous Animation Engine' Control

• Linux 7.0 Lands New TI RGB LED Driver With ‘Autonomous Animation Engine’ Control The LED subsystem updates for the Linux kernel typically aren’t too noteworthy each kernel cycle

Linux & Open Source · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 150 words
Nova Lake S Support Added To Intel LPSS Driver In Linux 7.0

Nova Lake S Support Added To Intel LPSS Driver In Linux 7.0

• Nova Lake S Support Added To Intel LPSS Driver In Linux 7.0 The latest Nova Lake enablement work for the Linux kernel to land is adding support for Nova Lake S platforms to the I

Linux & Open Source · February 17, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 254 words

Laser driver ICs cut power losses by 70%

• Silanna Semiconductor’s FirePower laser driver ICs, introduced in 2025, for LiDAR and rangefinder applications are now available in production quantities. • The SL2001 and SL2002

Electronics & EE · February 16, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 306 words
Linux 7.0 Driver Core Changes Bring More Enhancements For Rust Kernel Drivers

Linux 7.0 Driver Core Changes Bring More Enhancements For Rust Kernel Drivers

• Linux 7.0 Driver Core Changes Bring More Enhancements For Rust Kernel Drivers Merged a few days ago for the Linux 7.0 kernel were all of the driver core enhancements. • As has be

Linux & Open Source · February 16, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 269 words
Power Sequencing Driver For PCIe M.2 Connectors Makes It Into Linux 7.0

Power Sequencing Driver For PCIe M.2 Connectors Makes It Into Linux 7.0

• Power Sequencing Driver For PCIe M.2 Connectors Makes It Into Linux 7.0 The power sequencing subsystem updates have been merged for the Linux 7.0 cycle. • Typically not an area o

Linux & Open Source · February 15, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 271 words
The evolution of rewards: From marketing model to loyalty driver

The evolution of rewards: From marketing model to loyalty driver

• Games Industry Resources Community Learning Support Development Unity Engine Build 2D and 3D games for any platform Download Plans and pricing Monetization In-App Purchase (IAP)

Game Development · August 12, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 306 words