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Linux Decides To Disable RNG On All AMD fTPMs

Phoronix - Tue, 08/08/2023 - 05:04
As a follow-up to the first-on-Phoronix article last month that highlighted Linus Torvalds' frustrated views on the AMD fTPM random number generator continuing to cause problems for users even with updated firmware/BIOS, as of today the Linux kernel has gone ahead and blanket disabled RNG use for all current AMD fTPMs...

How The Radeon Professional Graphics Performance Changed Over 13 Years

Phoronix - Tue, 08/08/2023 - 02:00
AMD last week launched the Radeon PRO W7500 and Radeon PRO W7600 professional graphics cards built on RDNA3. Due to AMD's unique position with their open-source Linux graphics driver stack, I decided to see how these new Radeon professional GPUs compare to FirePro hardware from 13 years ago for the raw performance and power efficiency.

Linux Containers Forks LXD Project As "Incus"

Phoronix - Mon, 08/07/2023 - 23:22
Following Canonical deciding to pull in control of the LXD project and LXD maintainership being limited to Canonical employees, the Linux Containers project has announced the forking of LXD as Incus...

Google May Reconsider JPEG-XL Image Support Within Chrome

Phoronix - Mon, 08/07/2023 - 22:55
Last year Google decided to deprecate JPEG-XL image support within their Chrome/Chromium web browser. They expressed not enough interest and other factors for so quickly removing JPEG-XL support from their browser. They went ahead and removed the support for this next-gen JPEG standard while now a half-year later they may be having second thoughts...

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