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Linux Enablement Begins For Intel Nova Lake - The First "Family 18" CPUs
Today the first Linux kernel patch was posted for Intel's Nova Lake as the anticipated successor to the Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Arrow Lake" processors. Today's patch confirms that Intel Nova Lake will be the first Intel processors under their new "F...
2025-08-01 12:33
Attack Vector Controls Land In Linux 6.17 To Better Control CPU Security Mitigations
The Attack Vector Controls work is now in Linux 6.17 for those new tuning knobs worked on by AMD engineer David Kaplan to make it more straight-forward for Linux server administrators and power users to more easily select the CPU security mitigations r...
2025-08-01 12:13
Google upgrades Agent2Agent protocol with gRPC and enterprise-grade security
Google has introduced a new version of its open source Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, Version 0.3, with capabilities such as gRPC support, enhanced security, and developer-focused capabilities that the hyperscaler said will make it easier for enterprises...
2025-08-01 11:39
Spotlight report: How AI is reshaping IT
Download the August 2025 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight from the editors of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World. AUGUST SPOTLIGHT 01Download
2025-08-01 10:00
Fun and profit with ECMAScript 2025: What’s new in JavaScript
In human endeavor, motivation always has a dual aspect. We do the thing for its own sake, and we also do it as a means to an end. This is especially evident in software development, an activity that sometimes makes outsiders wonder why anyone would ...
2025-08-01 09:00
.NET Aspire 9.4 boasts CLI core commands, AI integrations
Version 9.4 of Microsoft’s .NET Aspire tools for building cloud-ready, distributed apps has arrived. The update features CLI core commands for starting an application, hosting integrations, running a full application stack, and changing CLI settings...
2025-08-01 09:00
Dedicated servers outpace public clouds for AI
AI systems are computational beasts with costs that can easily spiral out of control in a public cloud environment. This isn’t hypothetical; the data backs it up. Nearly half of IT leaders in a recent survey reported unexpected cloud-related costs r...
2025-08-01 09:00
Tumbleweed Monthly Update - July 2025
Several software packages were updated in openSUSE Tumbleweed during July that brought a large amount of enhancements, new features and critical security fixes across a wide range of components. Major upgrades included hwinfo 25, systemd-rpm-macros 26 ...
2025-08-01 09:00
Vulkan 1.4.324 Adds Experimental AMD Extension To Help With Ray-Tracing
Vulkan 1.4.324 is out today as the first Vulkan API specification update in two weeks with a variety of clarifications/corrections plus a new extension from AMD...
2025-08-01 09:00
More Intel Driver Maintainer Changes In Linux 6.17
Following the recent Intel driver being orphaned due to layoffs at the company and other Intel Linux engineering changes due to the ongoing restructuring at the company, for the Linux 6.17 kernel there are some additional Intel driver maintainer change...
2025-08-01 08:44
Intel IPU7 Driver Merged For Linux 6.17 For Webcams On Lunar Lake & Panther Lake Laptops
The media subsystem updates were submitted and subsequently merged on Thursday for the ongoing Linux 6.17 merge window. There are several notable media changes for Linux 6.17 but arguably most prominent is the IPU7 driver entering staging for working o...
2025-08-01 06:36
EXT4 Shows Wild Gains With Better Block Allocation Scalability In Linux 6.17
The EXT4 file-system enhancements for Linux 6.17 were merged on Thursday and bring better scalability to the block allocation code as well as fixing the file-system's large folios support. The scalability work can show some wild gains in select areas...
2025-08-01 06:06
Framework 12, Clear Linux Going EOL, AMD EPYC Performance & Other Excitement In July
During last month on Phoronix were 276 original news articles and another 15 featured reviews/benchmark articles around our forte of Linux hardware. Even with the summer here there has been no slowdown in interesting hardware running on Linux and the p...
2025-08-01 06:00
Linux 6.17 EDAC Code Supports Several Newer Intel CPUs
The Error Detection And Correction "EDAC" driver improvements were merged earlier this week for the ongoing Linux 6.17 merge window and with that comes a number of Intel hardware platforms now being supported...
2025-08-01 05:35
Ubuntu’s Desktop Icons Extension Adds New Keyboard Shortcuts
Ubuntu's DING extension adds new keyboard shortcuts for desktop icon selection, including multi-select, Ctrl+Space toggle, and HOME/END navigation. You're reading Ubuntu’s Desktop Icons Extension Adds New Keyboard Shortcuts, a blog post from OMG! Ubu...
2025-08-01 02:49
Ubuntu’s Desktop Icons Extension Gains New Keyboard Shortcuts
Ubuntu's DING extension adds new keyboard shortcuts for desktop icon selection, including multi-select, Ctrl+Space toggle, and HOME/END navigation. You're reading Ubuntu’s Desktop Icons Extension Gains New Keyboard Shortcuts, a blog post from OMG! Ub...
2025-08-01 02:49
Intel XeSS 2.1 Released With Frame Generation For Non-Intel GPUs But Still A Binary Mess
This evening Intel released XeSS 2.1 as the newest version of their Xe Super Sampling library with upscaling, frame generation, and low latency optimizations for gamers. Notable with XeSS 2.1 is that it introduces XeSS Frame Generation with Xe Low Late...
2025-07-31 20:37