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Intel Engineers Revise Key Locker Implementation For Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 05/25/2023 - 20:03
Going back to 2020 has been work by Intel's open-source engineers on implementing Key Locker support for Linux. Intel Key Locker allows for encrypting/decrypting data with an AES key without having access to the raw/actual key. AES keys are converted into handles with Intel Key Locker that can then be used for carrying out encryption/decryption on that system until revoked or system state changes. Intel engineers on Wednesday posted their seventh iteration of the patches for supporting Key Locker on Linux...

Microsoft's CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution Now Ships The AMD Graphics Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 05/25/2023 - 18:30
In addition to Microsoft's Build 2023 conference this week where they announced expanded archive/compression format support, Windows Terminal improvements, more AI tech, and other initiatives, they also happened to release CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230518 as the newest version of their in-house Linux distribution...

More Wine Wayland Code Has Been Merged

Phoronix - Thu, 05/25/2023 - 18:16
Since the early bits of Wine Wayland support were merged back in March for building up a native Wayland display driver, Alexandros Frantzis has continued submitting more of the code for review and upstreaming. Wednesday marked the third chunk of Wine Wayland code to be merged...

Intel's Open Image Denoise 2.0 Brings SYCL For Xe GPUs, NVIDIA CUDA, AMD HIP

Phoronix - Thu, 05/25/2023 - 06:47
Among Intel's dozens of terrific open-source components -- including the many components making up their oneAPI software suite -- is Open Image Denoise. Open Image Denoise for years has been a terrific, high-performance denoising library for ray-tracing use The software has long been CPU-based while being highly performant thanks to leveraging modern instruction set extensions. Today though Open Image Denoise 2.0 is released and brings GPU acceleration across Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA graphics processors...

ROCm 5.5.1 Released For AMD's Open-Source Compute Stack

Phoronix - Thu, 05/25/2023 - 06:30
Following the release at the start of the month of ROCm 5.5, today it's been succeeded by the ROCm 5.5.1 point release...

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