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FFmpeg 8.0 Merges OpenAI Whisper Filter For Automatic Speech Recognition

Wed, 08/13/2025 - 18:52
The upcoming FFmpeg 8.0 multimedia library release continues to get more exciting almost by the day. The newest feature being squeezed into this next release is a Whisper audio filter for making use of OpenAI's Whisper model for providing automatic speech recognition / transcription capabilities...

WSL2 Vulnerability Could Lead To Elevating Local Privileges

Wed, 08/13/2025 - 18:41
Last week Microsoft released new versions of WSL2 for a yet-to-be-public security vulnerability affecting their Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 implementation. Those details around CVE-2025-53788 are now public for this vulnerability that could lead to elevation of privileges...

xf86-input-mouse 2.0.0 Released 12 Years After v1.9 Mouse Driver

Wed, 08/13/2025 - 18:30
The xf86-input-mouse driver for mouse support when using the X.Orrg Server on operating systems like the BSDs, Illumos, GNU Hurd, and Solaris is out with a rare update...

GCC Developers Discuss Dropping Poorly Supported, Niche CPU Architectures

Wed, 08/13/2025 - 18:15
Following the discussion over potentially obsoleting/deprecating the Itanium IA-64 support within the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), developers are discussing similar treatment for some of the other poorly-maintained CPU ports...

Go 1.25 Released With Experimental GC Yielding 10~40% Overhead Reduction

Wed, 08/13/2025 - 08:15
Go 1.25 is out today as the newest half-year update to this popular programming language. What I find most exciting with Go 1.25 is the new experimental garbage collector yielding 10~40% reduction in overhead...

Linux Address Space Isolation "ASI" Revived After Lowering 70% Performance Hit To 13%

Wed, 08/13/2025 - 04:53
Several years ago Google engineers began exploring address space isolation for the Linux kernel and ultimately proposing Linux ASI for better dealing with CPU speculative execution attacks. While the hope was it would better cope with the ever growing list of CPU speculative execution vulnerabilities, the effort was thwarted initially by I/O throughput seeing a 70% performance hit. That level of performance cost was unsustainable. But now that I/O overhead has been reduced to just 13%...

Intel CPU Microcode Updates Released For Six High Severity Vulnerabilities

Wed, 08/13/2025 - 01:13
This Patch Tuesday has brought a slew of Intel CPU microcode updates for the past few processor generations to address six new high severity vulnerabilities...

CodeWeavers CrossOver 25.1 Improves The Stability Of Microsoft Office On Linux

Wed, 08/13/2025 - 00:25
While most Linux gamers are content using Valve's Steam Play (Proton) these days for Linux gaming, a new release of CodeWeavers' CrossOver is now available for enjoying other Windows applications and games on Linux as well as macOS. CrossOver 25.21 enhances the stability of the Microsoft Office office suite on Linux among other changes...

Linux Kernel Patched For AMD SEV-SNP Cache Coherency Vulnerability

Wed, 08/13/2025 - 00:17
This Patch Tuesday the only new security fix merged to the Linux kernel is addressing a vulnerability affecting AMD SEV-SNP secure virtual machines...

AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 With Framework Desktop vs. Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Linux Performance

Tue, 08/12/2025 - 21:33
Last week alongside our Framework Desktop review with the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" SoC I posted benchmarks of the Strix Halo performance compared to the Ryzen 9 9950X / 9950X3D socketed desktop processors. For those wondering similarly how the top-end Strix Halo SoC in the Framework Desktop competes with the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" flagship in performance and power efficiency, here are those comparison benchmarks.

Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 Released With Completed 64-bit Support, Rust Ported

Tue, 08/12/2025 - 21:25
Following this weekend's release of Debian 13.0 "Trixie", Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 has been released as the state of Trixie while running atop Hurd rather than Linux...

NVIDIA 580.76.05 Linux Driver Updates EGL Bits, Adds New MetaMode Attribute

Tue, 08/12/2025 - 20:51
Following the NVIDIA 580 Linux beta driver from just one week ago, today NVIDIA issued a new R580 series Linux driver build...

ZLUDA Implements Kernel Cache Support To Help With Performance

Tue, 08/12/2025 - 20:10
ZLUDA as the open-source solution bringing CUDA to non-NVIDIA hardware has been seeing a nice uptick in activity the past several months for its latest take on life. The latest feature merged to ZLUDA is the all-important kernel cache to help with performance...

Itanium IA-64 Support May Revert Back To Being Deprecated/Obsolete For GCC 16

Tue, 08/12/2025 - 19:37
The GCC 14 compiler had marked the Itanium IA-64 code as being obsolete and slated for removal in GCC 15. But then last year the Itanium port was un-deprecated with plans to "support this for some years to come." Now one year later it's back to talking about deprecating/obsoleting the Itanium IA-64 compiler code in GCC...

Intel Adds Another Battlemage BMG-G21 PCI ID To Their Linux Driver

Tue, 08/12/2025 - 18:35
Intel has introduced another new PCI device ID to their open-source Linux graphics driver stack for signifying another likely product on the way based on the Battlemage BMG-G21 GPU...

Fedora 43 Approved To Ship Hare Programming Language Support, Hardlinking Default

Tue, 08/12/2025 - 18:21
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) this week approved a number of additional features for the upcoming Fedora Linux 43 release...

Linux Mint 22.2 Beta Increases Wayland Compatibility, UI Enhancements

Tue, 08/12/2025 - 18:06
The beta release of Linux Mint 22.2 "Zara" is now available for testing of this popular desktop Linux distribution built atop an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base...

Intel Releases LLM-Scaler 1.0 As Part Of Project Battlematrix

Tue, 08/12/2025 - 08:27
Intel today announced their August 2025 Software Update to Project Battlematrix and the release of the LLM-Scaler 1.0 container for optimized AI inference support on Intel Arc B-Series graphics hardware...

Early Linux 6.17 Tests Show Some AMD Strix Halo Performance Improvements & Regressions

Tue, 08/12/2025 - 03:55
Even prior to the Linux 6.17-rc1 release on Sunday I already had kicked off some Linux 6.17 Git benchmarking in being eager to see how the performance is beginning to shape up for this next kernel release that is set to power the likes of Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43. There is some good news and bad news with my early testing on the ZBook Ultra G1a for AMD Strix Halo...

Updated Inclusive Language Guide Calls Out "Sanity Check", "Hung", "Native Support"

Tue, 08/12/2025 - 03:38
The Linux Foundation's Alliance for OpenUSD "AOUSD" and the Academy Software Foundation "ASWF" announced today an updated Inclusive Language Guide...

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