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QML Online Now Hosted By The KDE Project For Qt/QML On The Web
QML Online is a Qt/QML adaptation for the web powered by EmScripten / WebAssembly...
Intel Releases New Microcode For Skylake CPUs (20200616)
While Intel updated the CPU microcode for Skylake and other affected generations last week as part of the SRBDS / CrossTalk vulnerability that was made public last week Tuesday, today Intel quietly released another microcode revision but this time just for Skylake...
FFmpeg 4.3 Released With AMD AMF Encoding, Vulkan Support, AV1 Encode
FFmpeg 4.3 is out as the latest version of this key open-source multimedia library. FFmpeg 4.3 is quite a big release...
AMD Announces The Ryzen 3000XT Series
After weeks of rumors, AMD today officially confirmed the existence of the Ryzen 3000XT series...
Eight Features Not In Linux 5.8 From The DirectX Kernel Driver To FSGSBASE & DAMON
Linux 5.8 is shaping up to be one of the biggest kernel releases ever and while there are many new Linux 5.8 features, here is a look at some prominent and recently discussed material that didn't make the cut this cycle...
GFX1030 Target Merged Into LLVM 11 AMDGPU Back-End For Navi 2
Following the recent Linux kernel and Mesa patches for AMD "Sienna Cichlid" enablement for this "Navi 2" graphics processor, the AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end support has been merged into LLVM 11...
Zink OpenGL-Over-Vulkan Now Exposes GLSL 1.30
The Zink Mesa driver for implementing OpenGL over the Vulkan API is now quite close to hitting OpenGL 3.0...
Linux Lands And Then Reverts Usage Of Flexible Array Members
As a change past the Linux 5.8 merge window now that the flurry of code activity has settled down was changing the use of zero-length arrays in structs with flexible array members. Linus Torvalds did pull the change into Linux 5.8 but then decided shortly afterwards to drop the change at least for the time being...
Fedora Developers Are Looking At Better Managing Retired Packages
A change proposal for Fedora 33 would introduce the concept of "fedora-retired-packages" for removing retired packages when upgrading Fedora...
Radeon RADV Driver Merge Request Opened To Use ACO By Default
A merge request opened at the end of last week would now have the Mesa Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver default to using the Valve-backed ACO shader compiler in place of the default LLVM AMDGPU back-end...
CentOS 8 Rebased Against RHEL 8.2
The CentOS crew maintaining this community enterprise Linux operating system rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux have announced their RHEL 8.2-based release...
Running Linux 5.8-rc1 Benchmarks On The Intel Core i9 10900K + Radeon RX 5700 XT
Since yesterday's big release of Linux 5.8-rc1 I have begun benchmarking this new kernel on various systems. Here are some tests on the first system that was being vetted, the Intel Core i9 10900K Comet Lake with Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics...
Intel Confirms CET Security Support For Tiger Lake
Intel is confirming today that Control-Flow Enforcement Technology (Intel CET) will premiere with upcoming mobile Tiger Lake processors...
Qt 6.0 Sees Its First Development Snapshot
Being about six months out from the planned release of Qt 6.0, The Qt Company has issued its first snapshot of this forthcoming tool-kit update...
New Patches Aim To Improve Smoothness & Latency Of NVIDIA On GNOME
Canonical's Daniel van Vugt who is known for his prolific contributions to GNOME the past several years particularly in regards to performance has a new merge request open for helping with the "smoothness" of the NVIDIA driver on GNOME Shell...
Another Attack Vector Uncovered For Bypassing Linux Lockdown Via ACPI Tables
This weekend we reported on how injecting ACPI tables could lead to bypassing Linux's lockdown / UEFI Secure Boot protections and let attackers load unsigned kernel modules. That earlier issue was found on a patched version of the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS kernel while now a similar attack vector has been discovered on the mainline Linux kernel...
Entangle 3.0 Released For Tethered Shooting With DSLR Cameras On Linux
Entangle 3.0 has been released as the newest feature update to this software for controlling your DSLR camera under Linux with tethered shooting capabilities...
Linux Patches Provide Corsair Commander Pro Support For Thermal / Fan / RGB Controller
The Corsair Commander Pro is a controller that offers six 4-pin fan ports with PWM control, two RGB LED channels for RGB LED light strips and fans, and four thermistor inputs. This thermal/cooling/lighting controller is seeing Linux support via a third-party driver...
OpenBLAS 0.3.10 Released With Initial BFloat16 Support, x86_64 Optimizations
A new feature release is now available for this leading open-source BLAS linear algebra library...
Linux 5.8-rc1 Arrives As One Of The Biggest Releases Of All Time
Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 5.8-rc1 test build as what he describes as one of the biggest releases of all time...