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Raspberry Pi OS Improves Wayfire Rendering, Enhanced Raspberry Pi 5 Support

Phoronix - Thu, 12/07/2023 - 19:42
As a nice update ahead of the holidays, the Raspberry Pi folks have released Raspberry Pi OS 2023-12-05 as the first update to their Debian-based operating system since the official launch of the Raspberry Pi 5 back in October...

Chrome 120 Released With Theora Support Evaporating, Adds WebGPU & CSS Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 12/07/2023 - 19:30
Google on Wednesday released Chrome 120 as the newest version of their cross-platform web browser...

LVFS Has Supplied More Than 100 Million Firmware Updates To Linux Users

Phoronix - Thu, 12/07/2023 - 07:57
The Red Hat engineers responsible for creating the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) are celebrating tonight with LVFS paired with the Fwupd Linux firmware updating utility now having served more than 100 million firmware updates!..

systemd 255 Released With A "Blue Screen of Death" For Linux Systems

Phoronix - Thu, 12/07/2023 - 05:07
Ahead of the holidays systemd 255 has debuted as stable and comes with systemd-bsod as a "Blue Screen of Death" service capable of displaying full-screen error messages on Linux. There's also a new tool, systemd-vmspawn, that can be used for spawning virtual machines...

AMD Announces The Ryzen 8040 Series Mobile Processors With Better Ryzen AI

Phoronix - Thu, 12/07/2023 - 04:00
In addition to AMD using its AI event today for launching the Instinct MI300A and MI300X along with ROCm 6.0, AMD also announced the Ryzen 8040 series mobile processors. A big emphasis with these forthcoming laptop processors is on the AI capabilities between the dedicated NPU with AMD XDNA, Zen 4 CPU cores with AVX-512 VNNI support, and AMD RDNA3 graphics capable of accelerating AI.

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