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Last week the Microsoft Azure HBv5 instances reached general availability as powered by the custom EPYC 9V64H CPUs with HBM3 memory. These very interesting EPYC processors for memory bandwidth intensive workloads were announced last year while have finally reached GA with jaw-dropping results for software able to take advantage of the 6.7 TB/s memory bandwidth thanks to the HBM memory. The Azure HBv5 benchmarks last week showed how they compare to prior generation HBv4 instances while this article is taking things further and putting the performance into perspective against the older HBv2 and HBv3 instances.

Rostelecom acquires minority stake in Linux developer Bazalt SPO  Telecompaper

.NET MAUI will get Linux and browser support via Avalonia  theregister.com

Linux Looks To Remove SHA1 Support For Signing Kernel Modules  Phoronix

Patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week are seeking to remove SHA1 support for signing of kernel modules. This is part of the larger effort in the industry for moving away from SHA1 given its vulnerabilities to hash collisions and superior hashing algorithms being available...

Canonical Boosts Ubuntu Long-Term Support Longevity with Five-Year Ubuntu Pro Legacy Expansion  Hackster.io

CUDA 13.0 Update 2 is now available as the latest incremental improvement to NVIDIA's compute stack...

NVIDIA CUDA 13.0 U2 Brings DGX Spark Performance Improvements  Phoronix

Valve's Steam Machine can't run some of the most popular multiplayer games  TweakTown

Nitrux 5.0.0 Released: A 'New Beginning' That's Not for Everyone (By Design)  It's FOSS

Banned Russian antivirus maker Kaspersky rolls out new products — basic plan for Linux starts at $59.99 a year  Tom's Hardware

Valve’s new Steam Machine is a gut punch to Microsoft, Xbox, and Windows  OC3D

For next quarter's Mesa 26.0 release, the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver will present OpenGL mesh shaders support. It's been a long journey from the GL_EXT_mesh_shader extension being crafted and merged to wiring up the Mesa driver support while now it's in place for the AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver...

The Linux kernel's port to the DEC Alpha processors remains alive over 30 years after these processors first appeared...

Linux Has Another Maintainer Now For Its DEC Alpha Port  Phoronix

Recently when Intel contributed Nova Lake support for LLVM/Clang and the GCC compiler support there was not any AVX10 or APX support contrary to rumors and expectations. Intel has now published a new programming reference manual where they now confirm Nova Lake will in fact support AVX10.2 and APX...

Canonical announced today the expansion of the legacy add-on for Ubuntu Pro to provide total coverage of Ubuntu LTS releases up to 15 years...

Miracle-WM 0.8 was released on Wednesday as another step forward for this tiling Wayland compositor built atop Canonical's Mir software. Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek continues driving new features into Miracle-WM as it works toward its v1.0 milestone...

Valve’s New Steam Machine Runs on Linux — But Don’t Expect To Play Fortnite, CoD, or Battlefield 6 on It  Tech4Gamers

'Infinity' ... and beyond: MX Linux 25 arrives  theregister.com