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At AMD's AI event today the company provided more details on their Instinct MI300 series for their very exciting data center APU and CDNA3 discrete GPU accelerator. ROCm 6.0 was also announced for advancing AMD's AI software capabilities.

Kali Linux 2023.4 is Out: Cloud ARM64, Hyper-V, Pi 5, & More!  HackRead

Feral GameMode v1.8 out now with CPU core pinning and parking  GamingOnLinux

While there hasn't been much in the way of new Linux game ports from Feral Interactive since Steam Play (Valve's Proton + VKD3D-Proton) took over the scene, they do continue maintaining their GameMode open-source service and today released GameMode 1.8 with work by them and the open-source community...

Feral's GameMode 1.8 Adds CPU Core Pinning & Parking  Phoronix

Critical Bluetooth Flaw Exposes Android, Apple & Linux Devices to Takeover - Critical Bluetooth Flaw Exposes Android ...  Dark Reading

KDE Plasma 6's open beta delivers myriad delights - and you can try it now  ZDNet

KDE Plasma 6's open beta delivers myriad delights - and you can try it now  ZDNet

How to Set Environment Variables in Bash on Linux  How-To Geek

Red Hat greases migration to RHEL for CentOS 7 holdouts  The Register

Cloudflare has talked up their success in using the open-source Linux-based OpenBMC software for baseboard management controllers (BMCs) as a replacement to proprietary BMC software stacks...

Cloudflare Talks Up Its Success In Using OpenBMC  Phoronix

Fedora 40 is eyeing the next phase of its unified kernel (UKI) support within the distribution that will include the ability to support booting to unified kernel image files directly without having to go through a traditional bootloader like GRUB or SD-Boot...

Fedora 40 Eyes The Ability To Boot Unified Kernel Images Directly  Phoronix

New Ubuntu Security Fixes for Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities  Security Boulevard

Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack  Ars Technica

While Blender is at the forefront of receiving corporate sponsorships and funding for advancing that open-source 3D modeling software, other free software graphics programs haven't all received the same level of support. As good news for further raising the open-source creative/graphics ecosystem, an Austrian video game studio has become one of the new Krita sponsors...

How to Install the Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 11  How-To Geek

As noted in late November, AMD has begun enabling new "GFX12" hardware in LLVM for their AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end. GFX12 is the target for next-generation RDNA4 graphics processors and that upstreaming effort has continued with more patches being upstreamed...

More AMD GFX12 Additions Land In LLVM Git For RDNA4 GPUs  Phoronix