More ways of confusing the firmware on some Samsung laptops in UEFI mode to the extent that they will no longer boot are being discovered. It appears that even some Windows applications are able to trigger the problem.

Daniel Vetter of Intel's Open-Source Technology Center talked this weekend about recent and future improvements being worked on for the company's open-source DRM graphics kernel driver...

One of the ways that Intel has been trying to make their Mesa driver faster is through proper threading support, but for now the support is unfortunately slower while the code is still being actively developed...

It's not just smartphones -- Apple and Samsung are leading the charge in PCs, which include tablets, according to market researcher Canalys. [Read more]...