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With the ongoing work around the AMD GFX1250 (and GFX1251) in the open-source AMD Linux driver stack, it's led to a lot of speculation about these parts in the GFX12 series associated with RDNA4. RDNA4 refresh? Or a lot of signals have pointed to GFX125x being possible AI/HPC accelerators such as for the upcoming Instinct MI400 series. Adding to the intrigue is GFX1251 being an APU. The latest LLVM compiler activity is further pointing to GFX1250/GFX1251 being for enterprise hardware...

Latest LLVM Patch Further Points To AMD GFX1250/GFX1251 Being Instinct Hardware  Phoronix

These 4 alien Linux concepts confused me when I switched from Windows  How-To Geek

The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) drivers, such as for dealing with ECC memory error reporting, are heavy on the Intel side with Linux 7.2 in preparing for upcoming hardware...

Linux 7.2 EDAC Drivers Prep For Diamond Rapids, Nova Lake H  Phoronix

Overnight Valve released SteamOS 3.8.10 into the stable channel. for succeeding SteamOS 3.7. There's a lot happening across the board to their in-house Linux platform for the likes of the Steam Deck and upcoming Steam Machine hardware...

SteamOS 3.8.10 Stable Released With Updated Arch, Steam Machine Support & Wayland Desktop Default  Phoronix

Open Source Security Conference Opens: Linux Patching Cannot Survive 50,000 CVEs a Year  Tech Times

There are a number of time(r) core subsystem changes for the Linux 7.2 kernel to better harden the kernel...

PipeWire 1.6.7 Is Out with Better ALSA Support and Small Fixes  9to5Linux

Valve update Proton Hotfix for ARC Raiders compatibility on Linux / SteamOS  GamingOnLinux

Commodore's New Flip Phone Skips Android for Linux-Based Sailfish OS  It's FOSS

SteamOS 3.8 is out with initial Steam Machine support, Desktop Mode upgrades, new Graphics Drivers  GamingOnLinux

Homebrew tightens tap security, begins work on its interface  Help Net Security

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CNCF and Linux Foundation Education Partner with Udemy to Provide a Unified Cloud Native Training & Certification Opportunity  The Laconia Daily Sun

CNCF and Linux Foundation Education Partner with Udemy to Provide a Unified Cloud Native Training & Certification Opportunity  PR Newswire

CNCF and Linux Foundation Education Partner with Udemy to Provide a Unified Cloud Native Training & Certification Opportunity  PR Newswire

The ongoing rise in AI/LLM-generated patches hitting the mailing lists and affecting development workflows continues to impact Linux kernel development. For the ARM64 architecture updates in Linux 7.2 is an interesting anecdote over over feeling like this activity has "slowed us down a little on the feature side" and having to deal with this AI/LLM patch activity resulted in some features now being postponed from making it for this current Linux kernel development cycle...

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