Mesa

A church has purchased the vacant Macy's department store in East Mesa, Arizona, according to the Mesa Tribune. The sale means a large, empty retail property in the area will be given a new institutional use, part of a wider pattern of struggling malls and big-box stores being repurposed after anchor tenants close.

Mesa developers are starting work toward removing TGSI, the long-standing intermediate representation used in the open-source graphics driver stack. The effort would retire aging infrastructure that has been superseded by newer intermediate representations such as NIR. The change matters for Linux graphics drivers, as it signals continued modernization of Mesa's compiler internals, though timelines and affected drivers were not detailed in initial coverage.