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Intel Issues New CPU Microcode Going Back To Gen8 For New, Undisclosed Security Updates

Phoronix - Sat, 05/13/2023 - 06:40
Well, this is a bit strange... Intel just published Friday afternoon CPU microcode updates for all supported processor families back to Coffee Lake "Gen 8" for undisclosed security updates...

Wine 8.8 Released - Starts Working On ARM64EC Module Support

Phoronix - Sat, 05/13/2023 - 06:11
Wine 8.8 is out as another bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications on Linux, Chrome OS, and other platforms...

Linux Developers Still Working To Retire Intel Itanium/IA-64 Support

Phoronix - Fri, 05/12/2023 - 23:00
Back in February was a patch series proposed retiring the Intel Itanium (IA-64) architecture support from the Linux kernel. That removal has yet to take place in Linux Git but it's still being talked about and user-space developers are also eager as it would mean being able to clear out Itanium user-space code too...

Fwupd 1.8.15 Released With Support For Updating More Device Firmware Under Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 05/12/2023 - 20:49
LVFS/Fwupd lead developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat today released Fwupd 1.8.15 with fixes and allowing some additional devices to now enjoy firmware updating under Linux...

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