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Linux Foundation Announces The SEAPATH 1.0 Hypervisor

Phoronix - Wed, 02/05/2025 - 23:05
The Linux Foundation by way of their LF Energy initiative announced today the release of SEAPATH 1.0, a security-hardened real-time hypervisor...

Red Hat Developing "F-UKI" For Handling Firmware With Confidential VMs

Phoronix - Wed, 02/05/2025 - 21:55
Red Hat engineer Anirban Sinha presented at FOSDEM 2025 last weekend in Brussels on F-UKI, a new project being worked on at Red Hat as part of the confidential computing push for loading guest firmware within a Unified Kernel Image (UKI) for confidential VMs...

New Linux Patches Yield Up To 3.3x Faster AES-CTR Performance On AMD Zen 5 CPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 02/05/2025 - 19:52
Google engineer Eric Biggers is known for some of his great crypto performance optimization patches to benefit the Linux kernel and his most recent patch series is yielding some very tantalizing results for AMD Zen 5 processors whether it be the Ryzen 9000 series, Ryzen AI 300 series, or EPYC 9005 server processors...

cURL 8.12 Released With Its Rust Hyper Backend Removed

Phoronix - Wed, 02/05/2025 - 19:36
Back in December was word that cURL would be dropping its "Hyper" Rust HTTP back-end due to little demand and lack of developer interest for that experimental code. The cURL 8.12 release is out today with Hyper stripped out...

GNOME Mutter 48 Beta Released With HDR Bits, Gdctl Utility

Phoronix - Wed, 02/05/2025 - 19:22
The GNOME Mutter 48 compositor beta is now available for testing as part of this week's GNOME 48 beta milestone...

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