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Intel IDXD Accelerator Driver Cleaned Up For Some "Not So Happy Code Paths"

The IDXD Linux kernel driver used for the Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA) support on recent Xeon processors is being cleaned up for some "not so happy code paths" after an Intel engineer uncovered memory leaks and other troubles with the open-source d...

2025-08-13 08:31

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Clearing The Last ReiserFS Remnants: Documentation Cleanse Of The Defunct File-System

It was nearly one year ago in the Linux 6.13 kernel that the ReiserFS file-system was dropped from the mainline kernel after having been deprecated in 2022. That dropped 32.8k lines of code from the Linux kernel but some documentation remnants of Reise...

2025-08-13 08:18

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FFmpeg 8.0 Merges OpenAI Whisper Filter For Automatic Speech Recognition

The upcoming FFmpeg 8.0 multimedia library release continues to get more exciting almost by the day. The newest feature being squeezed into this next release is a Whisper audio filter for making use of OpenAI's Whisper model for providing automatic spe...

2025-08-13 06:52

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WSL2 Vulnerability Could Lead To Elevating Local Privileges

Last week Microsoft released new versions of WSL2 for a yet-to-be-public security vulnerability affecting their Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 implementation. Those details around CVE-2025-53788 are now public for this vulnerability that could lead to e...

2025-08-13 06:41

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xf86-input-mouse 2.0.0 Released 12 Years After v1.9 Mouse Driver

The xf86-input-mouse driver for mouse support when using the X.Orrg Server on operating systems like the BSDs, Illumos, GNU Hurd, and Solaris is out with a rare update...

2025-08-13 06:30

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GCC Developers Discuss Dropping Poorly Supported, Niche CPU Architectures

Following the discussion over potentially obsoleting/deprecating the Itanium IA-64 support within the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), developers are discussing similar treatment for some of the other poorly-maintained CPU ports...

2025-08-13 06:15

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Go 1.25 Released With Experimental GC Yielding 10~40% Overhead Reduction

Go 1.25 is out today as the newest half-year update to this popular programming language. What I find most exciting with Go 1.25 is the new experimental garbage collector yielding 10~40% reduction in overhead...

2025-08-12 20:15

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Linux Address Space Isolation "ASI" Revived After Lowering 70% Performance Hit To 13%

Several years ago Google engineers began exploring address space isolation for the Linux kernel and ultimately proposing Linux ASI for better dealing with CPU speculative execution attacks. While the hope was it would better cope with the ever growing ...

2025-08-12 16:53

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Intel CPU Microcode Updates Released For Six High Severity Vulnerabilities

This Patch Tuesday has brought a slew of Intel CPU microcode updates for the past few processor generations to address six new high severity vulnerabilities...

2025-08-12 13:13

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CodeWeavers CrossOver 25.1 Improves The Stability Of Microsoft Office On Linux

While most Linux gamers are content using Valve's Steam Play (Proton) these days for Linux gaming, a new release of CodeWeavers' CrossOver is now available for enjoying other Windows applications and games on Linux as well as macOS. CrossOver 25.21 enh...

2025-08-12 12:25

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Linux Kernel Patched For AMD SEV-SNP Cache Coherency Vulnerability

This Patch Tuesday the only new security fix merged to the Linux kernel is addressing a vulnerability affecting AMD SEV-SNP secure virtual machines...

2025-08-12 12:17

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AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 With Framework Desktop vs. Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Linux Performance

Last week alongside our Framework Desktop review with the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" SoC I posted benchmarks of the Strix Halo performance compared to the Ryzen 9 9950X / 9950X3D socketed desktop processors. For those wondering similarly how th...

2025-08-12 09:33

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Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 Released With Completed 64-bit Support, Rust Ported

Following this weekend's release of Debian 13.0 "Trixie", Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 has been released as the state of Trixie while running atop Hurd rather than Linux...

2025-08-12 09:25

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NVIDIA 580.76.05 Linux Driver Updates EGL Bits, Adds New MetaMode Attribute

Following the NVIDIA 580 Linux beta driver from just one week ago, today NVIDIA issued a new R580 series Linux driver build...

2025-08-12 08:51

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ZLUDA Implements Kernel Cache Support To Help With Performance

ZLUDA as the open-source solution bringing CUDA to non-NVIDIA hardware has been seeing a nice uptick in activity the past several months for its latest take on life. The latest feature merged to ZLUDA is the all-important kernel cache to help with perf...

2025-08-12 08:10

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Itanium IA-64 Support May Revert Back To Being Deprecated/Obsolete For GCC 16

The GCC 14 compiler had marked the Itanium IA-64 code as being obsolete and slated for removal in GCC 15. But then last year the Itanium port was un-deprecated with plans to "support this for some years to come." Now one year later it's back to talking...

2025-08-12 07:37

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Intel Adds Another Battlemage BMG-G21 PCI ID To Their Linux Driver

Intel has introduced another new PCI device ID to their open-source Linux graphics driver stack for signifying another likely product on the way based on the Battlemage BMG-G21 GPU...

2025-08-12 06:35

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Fedora 43 Approved To Ship Hare Programming Language Support, Hardlinking Default

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) this week approved a number of additional features for the upcoming Fedora Linux 43 release...

2025-08-12 06:21

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Linux Mint 22.2 Beta Increases Wayland Compatibility, UI Enhancements

The beta release of Linux Mint 22.2 "Zara" is now available for testing of this popular desktop Linux distribution built atop an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base...

2025-08-12 06:06

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Intel Releases LLM-Scaler 1.0 As Part Of Project Battlematrix

Intel today announced their August 2025 Software Update to Project Battlematrix and the release of the LLM-Scaler 1.0 container for optimized AI inference support on Intel Arc B-Series graphics hardware...

2025-08-11 20:27

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