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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...

NVIDIA CUDA 11.6 Brings Convenient "-arch=native", Defaults To New "GSP" Driver Mode

Phoronix - Tue, 01/18/2022 - 18:23
NVIDIA has released CUDA 11.6 as the latest version of their widely used but proprietary GPU compute stack. With CUDA 11.6 there are some good improvements and new features in store...

Some Older AMD Systems Can Boot Faster On Linux 5.17+

Phoronix - Tue, 01/18/2022 - 18:19
A change merged overnight with the libata subsystem updates for Linux 5.17 means that some older AMD hardware will be able to boot quicker by avoiding an otherwise mandated sleep period...

Folio Improvements For Linux 5.17, Large Folio Patches Posted

Phoronix - Tue, 01/18/2022 - 17:58
Back in November memory folios were merged into Linux 5.16 as a fundamental change to the memory management code. Now for Linux 5.17 there are improvements for folios merged and then out likely for Linux 5.18 is introducing the notion of large folios...

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