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Linux Dealing With x86 32-bit Software Security Issue For Intel TDX & AMD SEV

Phoronix - Fri, 12/08/2023 - 23:32
AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) and Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) are intended to help provide better security for virtual machines and are key elements to both companies investments around confidential computing. It turns out they have a common enemy in their VM security goals: x86 32-bit software...

GNOME's Dynamic Triple Buffering "Ready To Merge"

Phoronix - Fri, 12/08/2023 - 21:50
It looks like GNOME 46 might finally see the dynamic triple buffering support merged for Mutter to enhance the performance particularly for systems with integrated graphics...

Canonical Releases Multipass 1.13 RC With Snapshots Support, Migrated To Qt6

Phoronix - Fri, 12/08/2023 - 19:45
Canonical's Multipass software that is advertised as "cloud-style VMs at your fingertips" and making it easy to spin-up "Ubuntu VMs on demand for any workstation", is out with a new test release adding snapshots support and other new features...

PoCL 5.0-RC1 Released With Experimental OpenCL For Networked Systems

Phoronix - Fri, 12/08/2023 - 19:24
PoCL 5.0-RC1 is out today as the newest feature release being brewed for this "Portable Computing Language" implementation that allows for OpenCL code to run on CPUs as well as running OpenCL code on other back-ends such as atop NVIDIA CUDA and AMD ROCm and other LLVM back-ends...

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