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Python 3.12 Now Under Feature Freeze With Beta 1 Released

Phoronix - Tue, 05/23/2023 - 06:42
The first beta release of Python 3.12 is now available that also marks the beginning of the feature freeze for this year's major Python update...

Dear Ubuntu… - Hackaday

Google News - Tue, 05/23/2023 - 01:00
Dear Ubuntu…  Hackaday

Intel Provides AI-Accelerated HPC Update For ISC 2023

Phoronix - Tue, 05/23/2023 - 00:45
Intel is using ISC2023 this week in Hamburg, Germany to provide an update on its AI-accelerated HPC efforts. This includes reaffirming their upcoming data center product roadmap, reiterating their great software efforts, and also announcing full Aurora supercomputer specifications.

Cloudflare Launches New Open-Source Software Sponsorship Program

Phoronix - Mon, 05/22/2023 - 23:00
Cloudflare is making it easier for non-profit open-source projects to tap into the premium services offered by the company for speeding up their web infrastructure and protecting against attacks...

AMDVLK 2023.Q2.2 Brings New Extension For VKD3D-Proton, Performance Tuning

Phoronix - Mon, 05/22/2023 - 20:25
It's been over one month since the release of AMDVLK 2023.Q2.1 while today it's been succeeded by the AMDVLK 2023.Q2.2 update...

Google's Working Set Reporting Feature Aims To Better Deal With Over-Committed VMs

Phoronix - Mon, 05/22/2023 - 20:09
Google engineers this month have begun posting new patches for the Linux memory management subsystem and related components for a feature dubbed Working Set Reporting...

Testing Intel Raptor Lake With PCID Disabled & A Move Made By FreeBSD Last Year

Phoronix - Mon, 05/22/2023 - 18:11
With Linux going to disable PCID support on Intel Alder Lake and Raptor Lake while waiting for mitigated microcode due to a CPU bug, I was curious if this disabling of Process Context Identiifiers would have any overall performance implications. So I ran some benchmarks this weekend...

RADV Vulkan Driver Implements Smooth Lines For Zink

Phoronix - Mon, 05/22/2023 - 17:58
The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has implemented smooth lines support for in turn to be leveraged by the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver...

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