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In addition to Intel posting initial AVX10.1 patches for the GCC compiler, Intel has also begun sorting out their AVX10 plans for the LLVM/Clang compiler stack...

After a rather busy Patch Tuesday with the AMD Inception vulnerability and Intel Downfall going public, the Linux kernel saw a new bug fix merged today for a different issue... It turns out original AMD Zen 1 processors could end up leaking data in certain conditions after a divide by zero occurs...

Linux Lands Fix For AMD Zen 1 Bug That Could Leak Data After A ...  Phoronix

Getting AAA games working in Linux sometimes requires concealing ...  Ars Technica

Getting AAA games working in Linux sometimes requires concealing your GPU  Ars Technica

With yesterday's disclosure of the Intel Downfall speculative execution vulnerability and the updated CPU microcode and Linux kernel patches I have been very busy testing the performance impact of this mitigation. Here are some initial numbers and workloads I have found to be impacted as a result of this security mitigation for Skylake to Icelake/Tigerlake client and server processors.

Mine is Better: Why Linux is better than macOS or Windows  Techaeris

Following yesterday's disclosure of the AMD "Inception" security vulnerability and the Linux kernel patches merged for reporting the mitigation status as well as the kernel-based handling for earlier generation Zen CPUs, the Family 19h microcode mitigations have now been picked up by the linux-firmware.git repository...

Pipes and more pipes on Linux  Network World

MAR-10454006.r4.v2 SEASPY and WHIRLPOOL Backdoors  CISA

Sparkling fresh updates to Ubuntu, Mint and Zorin on way  The Register

Microsoft Windows Out, Linux-Based Maya In: India's Defense Ministry's Bold Move Against Cyber Threats -  Benzinga

A new set of patches have been posted for the Linux kernel that implement AMD P-State Preferred Core handling for the amd-pstate driver...

AMD P-State Preferred Core Handling Being Enabled For Linux  Phoronix

Best laptops for Linux in 2023  XDA Developers

As a lot of active development continues around the KDE Plasma 6 desktop and the developers eyeing a beta in a few months, it appears work on this Qt6-ported desktop environment is coming together quite nicely...

The long-in-development Bcachefs file-system driver was submitted for Linux 6.5 but never merged this cycle due to various technical issues and developer in-fighting. Linus Torvalds himself has now gotten around to reviewing the proposed code and chiming in on the situation...

Linus Torvalds Reviews The Bcachefs File-System Code  Phoronix

No More Windows! Indian Defense Services are Switching to Linux  It's FOSS News

The intel-speed-select tool that lives within the Linux kernel source tree has seen a set of patches prepared for the upcoming Linux 6.6 merge window. Arguably most interesting with this updated Intel Speed Select tool is now the ability to work with more than eight CPU sockets per platform -- the new limit is 32...