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Fedora 45 Considering x86_64 Shadow Stack Usage By Default

Phoronix - 4 hours 24 min ago
A change proposal under consideration for Fedora Linux 45 would enable x86_64 Shadow Stack usage by default in the name of better security on modern Intel and AMD systems...

EFS File-System Slated For Removal With Linux 7.3 After 20+ Years Unmaintained

Phoronix - 8 hours 2 min ago
The EFS file-system was used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and disk partitions on SGI IRIX before IRIX 6.0 switched over to XFS. Inside the Linux kernel has been a read-only EFS file-system driver without a maintainer for 20+ years while for Linux 7.3 it's expected to be removed...

Linux Kernel Developers Again Discussing AI Agent Attribution - Potentially Dropping It

Phoronix - Thu, 07/02/2026 - 23:11
When AI/LLM agents are used in the creation of Linux kernel patches, the policy for a while now has been that it should be specified using an "Assisted-by" tag as part of the patches/commits. But Linux kernel developers this week have been discussing whether to revise that policy or to potentially eliminate it...

RISC-V RVV Vector Performance Benchmarks With The SpacemiT K3 SoC

Phoronix - Thu, 07/02/2026 - 22:10
Since May we have been benchmarking the SpacemiT K3 RISC-V SoC as one of the first to market RISC-V chips supporting the RVA23 profile. The SpacemiT K3 has shown how far RISC-V performance has come in the past half decade and one of the promising elements of this modern RISC-V SoC with its X100/A100 cores is supporting the RISC-V Vector Extension "RVV" 1.0. In this article are some initial benchmarks looking specifically at the RISC-V RVV 1.0 performance impact in different supported software.

Intel Posts Initial GCC Compiler Patches For AI Compute Extensions "ACE"

Phoronix - Thu, 07/02/2026 - 21:08
The x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group led by Intel and AMD recently firmed up the AI Compute Extensions (ACE) specification for optimizing x86 for AI computation tasks around matrix multiplication and the like for machine learning workloads. The cross-vendor ACE extension is ultimately a successor to Intel's Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX). Posted to the GCC mailing list today by Intel engineers are the initial patches in preparing the compiler support for ACE...

Vibe Coded X11 Server Written In Rust Adds Xinerama, FreeBSD Support & Other Features

Phoronix - Thu, 07/02/2026 - 20:15
One month ago we reported on YSERVER as a modern X11 server written in Rust with the help of Claude Code. Since then YSERVER has continued to advance in supporting more X11 functionality thanks to the help of Claude Code (AI) and out today is version 1.3 o this display server...

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