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Debian Installer Trixie Alpha 1 Brings RISC-V & Drops i386 Installer
In working toward the Debian 13 "Trixie" stable release in 2025, as a lovely New Year's Eve surprise today is the first alpha release of the Debian Installer for Trixie...
2024-12-31 11:20
Chinese APT Exploits BeyondTrust API Key to Access U.S. Treasury Systems and Documents
The United States Treasury Department said it suffered a "major cybersecurity incident" that allowed suspected Chinese threat actors to remotely access some computers and unclassified documents.  "On December 8, 2024, Treasury was notified by a third-...
2024-12-31 11:12
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Apple @ Work Podcast: DDM, Wi-Fi, and you
Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage & pro...
2024-12-31 11:00
ZLUDA v4 Released For Initial CUDA Support On Non-NVIDIA GPUs
One of the unexpected twists this year was after several years of AMD quietly funding the ZLUDA developer for enabling unmodified CUDA applications to run on AMD GPUs at near-native performance, the ZLUDA atop AMD HIP code was made available and open-s...
2024-12-31 10:40
Samsung Galaxy S20 & S9 With Exynos 9810 Support Coming To Linux 6.14
The Samsung ARM device updates are in the process of being queued up to the SoC tree ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.14 merge window in January...
2024-12-31 10:23
Samsung increases share in Rainbow Robotics in aim to boost humanoid robot development
According to a press release, Samsung's share in Rainbow Robotics will be 35%, with plans to advance robotic technology and improve automation systems. Read more...
2024-12-31 10:18
Misconfigured Kubernetes RBAC in Azure Airflow Could Expose Entire Cluster to Exploitation
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered three security weaknesses in Microsoft's Azure Data Factory Apache Airflow integration that, if successfully exploited, could have allowed an attacker to gain the ability to conduct various covert actions, inclu...
2024-12-31 10:05
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Microsoft Continued With Many Linux & Open-Source Announcements In 2024
This year was another interesting year for Microsoft with continuing to make more of their software projects open-source, adding more Unix/Linux-like features to Windows, continuing to advance Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), keeping up with maintena...
2024-12-31 09:50
The vital role of red teaming in safeguarding AI systems and data
Companies are feeling pressure to adopt generative AI to stay ahead in a competitive global market. To ensure they adopt responsibly, governing and regulatory bodies across the world are convening to debate and understand the best ways to address AI...
2024-12-31 09:00
Corsair MP600 PRO XT 8TB SSD with heatsink: Massive price drop - 18% off! (Lowest ever)
If you're upgrading your PC, get the Corsair MP600 PRO XT 8TB SSD at its lowest-ever price on Amazon at just $773.49. In recent days it saw its biggest ever price drop. Read more...
2024-12-31 08:50
Wayland's Wild 2024 With Better KDE Plasma Support, NVIDIA Maturity & More Desktops
It was a mighty fine year for the Wayland ecosystem on the Linux desktop with KDE Plasma 6 having brought much more polished Wayland support and now at parity to its X11 session, the NVIDIA driver stack seeing much better Wayland support with its lates...
2024-12-31 07:20
Conferences and Events 2024
Conferences and Events 2024 It has become my tradition to summarize the conference year in a post on New Year’s Eve. If 2023 was a good conference year, then 2024 was even better! I spoke at or participated in more than 40 events across the World. I ...
2024-12-31 07:19
AMD INVLPGB Linux Patches Updated For Broadcast TLB Invalidation
Right before Christmas Mesa engineer Rik van Riel posted Linux kernel patches to make use of the AMD INVLPGB instruction for broadcast TLB invalidation. INVLPGB is present in AMD Ryzen and EPYC processors since Zen 3 and early data showed by Rik indica...
2024-12-31 07:01
Mesa Saw Fewer Patches This Year But Valve's Contributions Took The Top Spot
While the Mesa 3D graphics drivers saw many new features and improvements land in 2024, on a Git commit basis it's actually at a several year low in terms of new commits. Here are the numbers as well as a look at the most active contributors to Mesa, i...
2024-12-31 06:48
Clang 20 Compiler Adds Support For Xtensa CPU Target
Back in early 2023 an Xtensa back-end was added to LLVM for the Cadence Tensilica Xtensa IP. Xtensa is used for DSPs, micro-controllers, and this 32-bit RISC architecture is also used for other hardware like data processing engines. Two years after the...
2024-12-31 06:33
FreeBSD Collaborating With AMD, NetBSD 10.0 Release & Other BSD Highlights Of 2024
While predominantly covering Linux-related news and Linux benchmarking at Phoronix, the BSDs hold a special spot. Here's a look back at some of the most exciting BSD milestones and FreeBSD / NetBSD / OpenBSD / DragonFlyBSD project news of 2024...
2024-12-31 06:15
The WD_Black SN850X 4TB NVMe SSD with Heatsink is available for its lowest price on Amazon
Enjoy top-tier gaming performance with the Western Digital Black SN850X 4TB NVMe SSD with Heatsink, available now at its all-time lowest price on Amazon. Read more...
2024-12-31 05:04
Kdenlive is Adding One of Final Cut Pro’s Best Features
Removing backgrounds from video in Kdenlive, the free, open-source video editor for Linux, macOS and Windows, is about to get a whole lot easier. This “modern background removal tool” uses object masks to automatically cut out the subject of a vide...
2024-12-31 03:54
M4 Mac users complain about compatibility issues with ultrawide monitors
It’s been a while since Apple launched the new M4 Macs, and as more people get their hands on these computers, reports of unexpected issues surface on the web. Now there’s a group of users complaining about compatibility issues between M4 Macs and ...
2024-12-31 00:11
iPhone 17 may have higher refresh rate displays, but don’t get too excited
Here we go again for another season of rumors. This time, multiple reports suggest that all iPhone 17 models will have ProMotion – as Apple calls the technology for displays with a higher refresh rate. While this seems highly likely, you probably sho...
2024-12-30 23:27