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With the upcoming Intel Meteor Lake processors is the introduction of the Versatile Processing Unit "VPU" IP block for computer vision and deep learning use-cases to provide better performance. Earlier this year with Linux 6.3 the iVPU driver was merged. Meteor Lake processors haven't even officially launched yet while already Intel's open-source engineers have begun enabling the next-gen VPU to be found with Lunar Lake processors...

Intel Prepares Linux Driver For Next-Gen VPU With Lunar Lake  Phoronix

Linux Creator Linus Torvalds Frustrated with AMD fTPM Bugs on ...  Fagen wasanni

Linux Creator Calls for Disabling AMD fTPM Random Number ...  Fagen wasanni

The Most Prolific Packager For Alpine Linux Is Stepping Away ...  Slashdot

VMware ESXi servers impacted by Abyss Locker for Linux ...  SC Media

One of the latest feature additions for next quarter's Mesa 23.3 release of these open-source user-space graphics driver components is adding support for the EGL explicit device extension...

Parcel Simulator dev excited about Steam Deck support for you to ...  GamingOnLinux

Qualcomm engineers have begun rolling out a new open-source V4L2/media driver for a new Qualcomm "Iris" video accelerator hardware for video encode and decode on Qualcomm SoCs...

Qualcomm Rolling Out "Iris" Video Encoder/Decoder Driver For Linux  Phoronix

SUSE takes aim at Red Hat in Linux, Kubernetes play  ComputerWeekly.com

How to install free Google fonts on Linux (and why you should)  ZDNet

How to install free Google fonts on Linux (and why you should)  ZDNet

Cyber Security Today, July 31, 2023 – Warnings to Linux and web administrators, and more  IT World Canada

MX Linux 23 “Libretto” Is Out with Linux Kernel 6.4, Based on Debian Bookworm  9to5Linux

DevilutionX for classic Diablo and Hellfire now on Flathub  GamingOnLinux

The Most Prolific Packager For Alpine Linux Is Stepping Away  Phoronix

Alpine Linux remains one of the most popular lightweight Linux distributions built atop musl libc and Busybox. Alpine Linux has found significant use within containers and the embedded space while now sadly the most prolific maintainer of packages for the Linux distribution has decided to step down from her roles...

Tactical RPG 'Arcadian Atlas' is out now  GamingOnLinux

Linux creator Linus Torvalds is growing frustrated with AMD fTPM hardware random number generator bugs on recent Ryzen systems plaguing the kernel and has expressed a desire in potentially disabling its use...