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systemd 260-rc3 Released With AI Agents Documentation Added

Phoronix - 3 hours 43 min ago
The first release candidate of systemd 260 arrived in late February with the new mstack feature, dropping System V service scripts support, and other changes. A week after that systemd 260-rc2 released with a few more changes and now another week later is systemd 260-rc3...

AMD ZenDNN 5.2 Brings A Major Redesign, AOCC 5.1 Recently Released

Phoronix - 4 hours 12 min ago
AMD today released ZenDNN 5.2 as the latest versio nof their deep nueral network library that now introduces their next-generation runtime architecture. ZenDNN 5.2 is designed to deliver better performance and geater scalability over earlier versions of this AMD library that began as their take on Intel's open-source oneDNN...

Intel CPU Security Mitigation Costs From Haswell Through Panther Lake

Phoronix - Thu, 03/12/2026 - 23:50
Over the past month on Phoronix there have been a lot of benchmarks of Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" with the Core Ultra X7 358H. One of the areas of Panther Lake not explored yet is around the CPU security mitigation impact, which is the focus of today's benchmarking. The performance tests today are not only looking at the impact of the Core Ultra X7 SoC at its default versus running in a "mitigations=off" configuration but also comparing the overall CPU security mitigation impact with the run-time toggle going back all the way to Intel Haswell era laptops.

EndeavourOS Titan Released With Linux 6.19, Improved GPU Driver Integration

Phoronix - Thu, 03/12/2026 - 23:38
EndeavourOS Titan is out today as the latest ISO refresh for this Arch Linux powered distribution. There is a lot of updates as part of this routine ISO refresh as well as some new tooling and GPU driver integration enhancements...

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