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Microsoft's Director of OS Security Gets Coreboot Playing Nicely With Windows 11

Phoronix - Wed, 01/19/2022 - 03:21
It turns out with enough maneuvering that Microsoft Windows 11 can run well with the open-source Coreboot even with keeping UEFI SecureBoot enabled and meeting Windows 11's TPM requirements and other security measures...

Firefox Gets AV1 VA-API Acceleration Sorted Out

Phoronix - Wed, 01/19/2022 - 02:56
Thanks to Red Hat developer Martin Stránský, he has managed to get the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) working for AV1 content within the Firefox web browser...

Microsoft To Acquire Activision Blizzard

Phoronix - Tue, 01/18/2022 - 22:00
Microsoft announced plans this morning to acquire Activision Blizzard in a nearly $69 billion (USD) deal...

LVFS Activity Going Wild Ahead Of New Security Disclosure Requiring Firmware Update

Phoronix - Tue, 01/18/2022 - 20:45
The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) that integrates with Fwupd for delivering firmware updates primarily to Linux users is surging with around three times the normal traffic volume. Unfortunately, this boost in traffic appears to be due to vendor(s) releasing new system firmware updates ahead of disclosing a presumptive security issue...

AMD Radeon Open-Source OpenGL Driver Expands Its Sparse Texture Capabilities

Phoronix - Tue, 01/18/2022 - 18:51
At the end of last year AMD introduced OpenGL sparse texture support into its RadeonSI Gallium3D driver. This functionality for Vega GPUs and newer flipped on ARB_sparse_texture support while now with the very latest Mesa 22.0-devel code ARB_sparse_texture2 is now flipped on too...

Qt Launches Digital Advertising Platform To Integrate Ads Into App UIs

Phoronix - Tue, 01/18/2022 - 18:29
The Qt Company this morning announced Qt Digital Advertising 1.0 as its new ad platform that allows for developers to easily integrate advertising campaigns into Qt-based, cross-platform applications...

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