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Linux Patched For New Intel "MMIO Stale Data" Vulnerabilities

Phoronix - Wed, 06/15/2022 - 01:39
In addition to the Hertzbleed frequency scaling side-channel attack being made public today as part of "Patch Tuesday" and affecting both Intel and AMD CPUs, Intel is additionally disclosing a set of "MMIO Stale Data" vulnerabilities. The Linux kernel has already been patched for these new vulnerabilities affecting multiple generations of Intel CPUs from Rocket Lake back to Haswell X and Skylake...

Hertzbleed Disclosed As New Family Of Side-Channel Attacks Affecting Intel + AMD

Phoronix - Wed, 06/15/2022 - 01:12
Hertzbleed has been made public today as a new family of side-channel attacks making use of frequency side channels. Both Intel and AMD have issued security advisories as a result...

AMD HIP vs. NVIDIA CUDA vs. NVIDIA OptiX On Blender 3.2

Phoronix - Tue, 06/14/2022 - 21:00
Last week with the release of Blender 3.2 bringing AMD HIP support for Linux to provide for Radeon GPU acceleration, I posted some initial benchmarks of AMD Radeon RX 6000 series with HIP against NVIDIA RTX with OptiX. There was interest by some Phoronix readers in also seeing NVIDIA CUDA results even though OptiX is in good shape with RTX GPUs, so with that here are results of NVIDIA CUDA vs. NVIDIA OptiX vs. AMD HIP with Blender 3.2 on Ubuntu Linux.

KDE Plasma 5.25 Released With Wayland Improvements, Improved Gestures

Phoronix - Tue, 06/14/2022 - 20:30
KDE Plasma 5.25 is now shipping as the latest half-year major update to the KDE desktop...

GitLab Now The Main Development Platform For Wine

Phoronix - Tue, 06/14/2022 - 19:30
Earlier this year Wine began experimenting with GitLab to improve their development workflow for this open-source project that allows Windows games and applications to run on Linux. It's now been decided that the GitLab workflow is useful and will now be their path forward...

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