Open Source

Intel's PCIe Cooling Driver Ready For Linux 6.13 To Reduce Bandwidth When Running Hot
For the past year Intel software engineers have been developing a PCIe cooling driver to reduce the PCIe link speed to cope with thermal issues. In the future with PCI Express 6.0 this driver may be further adapted to also reduce the PCIe link width wh...
2024-10-27 07:01
Linux NETFS Patches Help With CIFS Performance, Single Blob Objects
The Linux NETFS code as a network file-system helper library is seeing patches to help enhance the read performance for solutions like CIFS as well as adding single blob object support...
2024-10-27 06:27
DM-INLINECRYPT Being Worked On To Leverage Inline Block Device Encryption
In addition to Eric Biggers of Google being busy working on various crypto and hashing performance optimizations, the longtime Linux developer has also been working on "dm-inlinecrypt" for better leveraging inline block device encryption...
2024-10-27 06:15
Vulkan 1.3.300 Delivers New Cooperative Matrix Extension From NVIDIA
Vulkan 1.3.300 debuted on Friday with a handful of fixes and one new extension...
2024-10-26 13:55
Leap, Tumbleweed Get Makeovers
Branding for Tumbleweed and Leap 16.0 are moving along with the creation of a visual identity for these two distinct operating system flavors. For two of openSUSE’s most notable Linux distributions, there is an updated logo and new digital wallpaper ...
2024-10-26 10:00
PeaZip 10 Released with Revamped GUI Engine, Compression Presets, and More
PeaZip 10 open-source archive manager is now available for download with a revamped GUI engine, compression pre-sets, updates menus, and more. Here's what's new! The post PeaZip 10 Released with Revamped GUI Engine, Compression Presets, and More appear...
2024-10-26 09:53
Initial Intel Xe3 OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Code Submitted For Mesa 24.3
With Linux 6.13 there is going to be the initial kernel graphics driver support for Xe3 in integrated form to be found with next-gen Panther Lake processors. Merged today for Mesa 24.3 this quarter is the initial OpenGL and Vulkan driver enablement for...
2024-10-26 09:35
ASUS WMI Fix Submitted For Linux 6.12-rc5 To Handle Lunar Lake Performance Issue
Submitted today were a set of x86 platform driver fixes for merging ahead of the Linux 6.12-rc5 release due out on Sunday. For the most part mostly mundane fixes. But notable is an ASUS WMI fix to address the Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" performance is...
2024-10-26 09:21
Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns
Following the recent concerns over Bitwarden potentially moving further away from open-source given SDK changes that appeared, Bitwarden has now further addressed the situation to ease the community concerns...
2024-10-26 06:41
KDE Fixing Many Bugs, Prepping New Plasma 6.3 Features
KDE developers continue being very busy prepping more bug fixes for the Plasma 6.2.x series while continuing to work on new feature material for Plasma 6.3...
2024-10-26 06:29
What can Windows 10 users do once support ends in October 2025?
There’s a date looming on the horizon for the vast majority of Windows users. While Windows 11 has been out for a long time now, most Windows users are using Windows 10 – about 63% – while Windows 11 is used by only about 33% of Windows users. In...
2024-10-25 22:05
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A deep dive into Linux’s new mseal syscall
If you love exploit mitigations, you may have heard of a new system call named mseal landing into the Linux kernel’s 6.10 release, providing a protection called “memory sealing.” Beyond notes from the authors, very little information about this...
2024-10-25 21:24
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Google expands Responsible GenAI Toolkit
Google has enhanced its Responsible Generative AI Toolkit for building and evaluating open generative AI models, expanding the toolkit with watermarking for AI content and with prompt refining and debugging features. The new features are designed to w...
2024-10-25 20:45
Contractors training Amazon, Meta and Microsoft’s AI systems left without pay after Appen moves to new platform
One-third of payments to contractors training AI systems used by companies such as Amazon, Meta and Microsoft have not been paid on time after the Australian company Appen moved to a new worker management platform. Appen employs 1 million contractors ...
2024-10-25 19:51
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Celebrating Chicago’s creators and small businesses at Firefox’s ‘Free to Browse’ event
With winter on the horizon, Chicago is ready to show that nothing — not wind, nor snow — can cool the fire of a united community.  As we toast Firefox’s 20th anniversary, we’re hosting “Free to Browse: Celebrating Chicago’s Creatives,” a...
2024-10-25 17:15
Linux Fixes "Meltdown Lite" Mitigation Handling On Newer Zen 5 CPUs
Linus Torvalds took to some coding himself today to fix a user-address masking non-canonical speculation issue. The Linux kernel needed an adaptation for this "Meltdown Lite" issue due to different behavior with the latest AMD Zen 5 processors...
2024-10-25 16:30
Linux Adjusts "Meltdown Lite" Mitigation Handling On Newer Zen 5 CPUs
Linus Torvalds took to some coding himself today to fix a user-address masking non-canonical speculation issue. The Linux kernel needed an adaptation for this "Meltdown Lite" issue due to different behavior with the latest AMD Zen 5 processors...
2024-10-25 16:30
Hugging Face pitches HUGS as an alternative to Nvidia’s NIM for open models
Generative AI model and repositories provider Hugging Face this week launched an alternative to Nvidia’s NIM (Nvidia Inference Microservices). Hugging Face Generative AI Services, or HUGS, is the only available alternative to NIM presently. NIM, whi...
2024-10-25 13:26
Intel Core Ultra 5 245K Linux Performance
Yesterday for the Intel Core Ultra 200S Arrow Lake launch date was my extensive look at the Core Ultra 9 285K under Ubuntu Linux for that 24-core desktop processor. Under focus today is the lower-tier Intel Core Ultra 5 245K with a large variety of Lin...
2024-10-25 11:16