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AMX-FP8 Support Upstreamed Into LLVM For Intel Diamond Rapids

Intel compiler engineer Feng Zou has upstreamed AMX-FP8 support into the LLVM compiler stack. This FP8 extension to the Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) is coming with next-gen Diamond Rapids processors alongside other new ISA extensions...

2024-10-31 06:43

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SUSE's Agama Installer Adds QR Code To The Console & Other Improvements

SUSE's Agama OS installer 10 was recently released as the newest feature iteration for this next-gen OS installer for SUSE/openSUSE...

2024-10-31 06:33

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SVT-AV1 2.3 Brings More Performance Improvements: AVX-512 & LTO By Default, More Tuning

SVT-AV1 2.3 is now available as the newest feature release to this leading open-source AV1 encoder. With SVT-AV1 2.3 there are yet more performance improvements...

2024-10-31 06:20

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AMDVLK 2024.Q4.1 Adds A Few More Vulkan Extensions

One month has passed since the AMDVLK 2024.Q3.3 driver release while today has brought the AMDVLK 2024.Q4.1 release with a few new Vulkan API extensions...

2024-10-31 06:03

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AMD "Cleaner Shader" Coming For GFX11.0.3 GPUs To Help Ensure User/App Isolation

A new patch posted today for the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver is introducing a "cleaner shader" explicitly for GFX11.0.3 GPUs like the Radeon 780M integrated graphics to help ensure that there is sufficient data isolation between different workl...

2024-10-30 20:27

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Ubuntu 25.04 "Plucky Puffin" Development Opens - Defaulting To -O3 Optimizations

Canonical has announced the formal state of the Ubuntu 25.04 "Plucky Puffin" development. Among other early changes are now defaulting to -O3 compiler optimizations rather than the default -O2 optimization level when building Debian packages...

2024-10-30 16:02

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Benchmarks Of Google's Axion Arm-based CPU: Competitive Performance & Compelling Value

Earlier this year Google announced Axion as their first Arm-based CPU for the Google Cloud. Today already they are taking Axion to general availability with the new C4A instances. These new C4A instances are advertised as offering up to 50% better perf...

2024-10-30 12:00

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OpenPaX Announced As "Open-Source Alternative To GrSecurity" With Free Kernel Patch

Enterprise security firm Edera today is announcing OpenPaX that they promoted in their advance press notice as a "new open-source alternative to GrSecurity." GrSecurity being the firm focused on providing out-of-tree Linux kernel patches focused in the...

2024-10-30 11:00

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DRM Panic "Screen of Death" Support Being Extended To All Recent AMD GPUs

DRM_Panic is the functionality first added in Linux 6.10 for "Blue Screen of Death" type functionality when a kernel panic occurs or similar for displaying a nice graphical error message. Since the initial introduction it's been extended to handle QR c...

2024-10-30 06:23

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RadeonSI Lands Async Video Operations For Improving FFmpeg Performance

The RadeonSI Gallium3D driver used by all modern AMD Radeon graphics hardware has landed support in Mesa 24.3 for async VCE/UVD video operations to enhance the performance with the widely-used FFmpeg multimedia library...

2024-10-30 06:09

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VirtIO-GPU Vulkan Support Approaching Upstream QEMU

Support for making use of Vulkan with VirtIO-GPU while using QEMU could very soon be upstream...

2024-10-30 06:01

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Wasmer 5.0 WebAssembly Runtime Released With V8, WAMR & WASMI Backends

Wasmer 5.0 is now available as the latest major update to this WebAssembly (WASM) runtime focused on being able to allow developers to write "universal apps" that will run anywhere thanks to the power and versatility of WebAssembly...

2024-10-30 05:48

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Shotcut 24.10 Open-Source Video Editor Adds Initial AI Feature

Shotcut 24.10 is now available as the latest feature release to this open-source, cross-platform video editor built atop the MLT framework, Qt6, FFmpeg, SDL, and other software components...

2024-10-30 05:38

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Intel Posts Updated Raptor Lake Microcode For Linux: Fixes Voltage Issue & Other Bugs

Intel off their typical second Tuesday of the month patch regiment today posted new CPU microcode just for 13th Gen "Raptor Lake" and 14th Gen "Raptor Lake Refresh" processors for Linux systems. Notable with the updated Raptor Lake CPU microcode is the...

2024-10-29 20:36

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Coreboot Issues Rebuttal To Recent Laptop Vendor Controversy

Following the rather bizarre blog post two weeks ago of laptop vendor MALIBAL suggesting not supporting Coreboot due to their frustrating experiences dealing with Coreboot consulting firms, the Coreboot project itself has now issued a response...

2024-10-29 14:30

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Linux Use On Microsoft Azure Crosses 60%, AlmaLinux Now An Endorsed Distro

For years there have been statements about how over half of the VMs running within the Microsoft Azure public cloud are Linux-based... In a new blog post today is the first time I am seeing Microsoft cite now "over 60%" Linux marketshare on Microsoft's...

2024-10-29 14:04

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Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Affecting X.Org Server For 18 Years

CVE-2024-9632 was made public today as the latest security vulnerability affecting the X.Org Server. The CVE-2024-9632 security issue has been present in the codebase now for 18 years and can lead to local privilege escalation...

2024-10-29 13:47

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Crucial Pro DDR5-6400 32GB Kit Performance With Intel Arrow Lake

Earlier this year Micron announced the Crucial Pro DDR5-6000 memory for AMD and Intel desktops and catering to gamers. With the newest AMD Ryzen 9000 series (Zen 5) and Intel Core Ultra Series 2 (Arrow Lake) processors out there and enjoying even faste...

2024-10-29 10:42

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Fedora 41 Releases Today With Many Shiny New Features

Fedora 41 is ready for release today as a wonderful update to this leading edge Linux distribution...

2024-10-29 07:16

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RISC-V User-Space Pointer Masking Appears Ready For Linux 6.13

It looks like the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle will be adding RISC-V support for user-space pointer masking and tagged address ABI...

2024-10-29 07:00

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