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An open world: Why Red Hat supports the United Nations Open Source Principles

Red Hat News - Thu, 08/21/2025 - 08:00
At Red Hat, we have always believed that the best technology comes from open collaboration. It’s no secret that the components of Red Hat’s products, from the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform to the latest AI innovations of Red Hat AI Inference Server, are created in the upstream, in the open, with communities and projects that make them possible. For three decades, open source has been a core tenet for Red Hat. While the broader technology world was slower to embrace it, more and more organizations are turning to open source-first approaches each year. This is why Red Hat, as

Libre-Chip Awarded NLnet Grant To Prototype A CPU That Isn't Vulnerable To Spectre Flaws

Phoronix - Thu, 08/21/2025 - 04:45
The Libre-Chip project led by Jacob Lifshay has received a grant from NLNet to develop a prototype/proof-of-concept processor design that can be high performance but not vulnerable to speculative execution vulnerabilities like Spectre...

systemd 259 To Raise Linux System Requirements

Phoronix - Thu, 08/21/2025 - 01:00
Systemd 258 is nearing release with many big changes to this init system / service manager. Systemd 258-rc3 was released today with some last minute fixes while also now adding that the next release, systemd 259, will face increased Linux system requirements...

AMD FidelityFX SDK 2.0 Released With FSR 4 Included

Phoronix - Wed, 08/20/2025 - 23:49
AMD's GPUOpen team just released the FidelityFX SDK 2.0 development kit and with it is now the inclusion of the FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4) upscaling tech to complement the existing FSR 2 / FSR 3 support...

Mesa 25.2.1 Released: Restores NVK On Kepler, Additional Intel Battlemage ID

Phoronix - Wed, 08/20/2025 - 22:38
Following the release of Mesa 25.2 from two weeks ago, Mesa 25.2.1 is out now as the first point release. Mesa 25.2.1 is quite heavy on bug fixes and some other notable back-ports from Mesa 25.3-devel...

MoltenVK 1.4 Released For Bringing Vulkan 1.4 To macOS Atop Metal

Phoronix - Wed, 08/20/2025 - 22:21
MoltenVK 1.4 is available today for this Vulkan portability implementation that layers the Vulkan API atop Apple's Metal graphics drivers for allowing Vulkan games/apps to run across macOS, iOS, and tvOS devices...

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