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Windows 11 Pro's On-By-Default Encryption Slows SSDs Up To 45%  Slashdot

How Ubuntu Linux snuck into high-end Dell laptops (and why it's called 'Project Sputnik')  ZDNet

How Ubuntu Linux snuck into high-end Dell laptops (and why it's called 'Project Sputnik')  ZDNet

AMD Wants To Know If You'd Like Ryzen AI Support On Linux  Phoronix

With the newest AMD Ryzen 7040 series laptops there is "Ryzen AI" as a dedicated AI engine based on Xilinx IP to help accelerate machine learning with the likes of PyTorch and TensorFlow. Sadly though this Ryzen AI with their new Zen 4 laptops is only supported under Microsoft Windows at this point. But it could change with sufficient customer interest...

Raptor Computing Systems as the company behind the open-source friendly, POWER-based Talos II server and Blackbird microATX desktop has continued leveraging POWER9 given the binary blobs and challenging state around POWER10. But looking ahead to next year it looks like they'll be debuting some new hardware platforms...

Mosa Lina is pure physics puzzle-platforming chaos  GamingOnLinux

DEF CON 31 – ElfMaster’s ‘Revolutionizing ELF Binary Patching With Shiva A JIT Binary Patching Sy...  Security Boulevard

DEF CON 31 - ElfMaster's 'Revolutionizing ELF Binary Patching With ...  Security Boulevard

As shown already the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 with AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U works out well on Linux and is very speedy as shown with that prior benchmarking on Linux 6.3, but for those moving to Linux 6.5 or newer the performance and power efficiency is even better. Like for those moving to the newly-released Ubuntu 23.10 with Linux 6.5, there are some nice performance gains to find with this laptop -- similar to the experience seen with various AMD Ryzen desktops on the new kernel.

System76 engineers working on their COSMIC desktop environment for their Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS Linux distribution continue to be quite busy working on this Rust-written desktop code...

COSMIC Desktop Rolls Out Lock/Login Screen, More Wayland ...  Phoronix

Vulkan 1.3.269 released this morning with new extensions from Arm and NVIDIA...

Vulkan 1.3.269 Released With New Extension For Launching CUDA ...  Phoronix

On this day, the first Ubuntu distro was released  XDA Developers

Karol Herbst at Red Hat who leads development on Mesa's Rust-written OpenCL "Rusticl" driver presented to share the progress made over the course of the year on this modern alternative to Gallium3D's Clover as well as some of the work still being pursued by this open-source OpenCL implementation for Gallium3D drivers...

Rusticl OpenCL Still Striving For Better Performance, SYCL & HIP ...  Phoronix

AMD RDNA 3 Refresh Code Unearthed in Linux Mesa 23.3 Graphics Driver  Tom's Hardware

For going along with the initial GFX11.5 kernel support that is set to be introduced in Linux 6.7 along with other portions of new AMD Radeon graphics IP enablement, this quarter's Mesa 23.3 release will also bring initial GFX11.5 graphics support for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

Mesa 23.3 Merges Initial Support For RDNA3 Refresh "GFX11.5 ...  Phoronix