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Intel Announces "Project Amber" For Verifying The Trustworthiness Of Clouds

Phoronix - Wed, 05/11/2022 - 22:10
Following yesterday's Intel Vision 2022 announcements there is a bit more news today. In particular, Intel is announcing Project Amber...

Qt 5.15.4 LTS Release Now Available As Open-Source

Phoronix - Wed, 05/11/2022 - 19:55
Back in March marked the release of Qt 5.15.3 as open-source, one year after it was released to commercial customers of The Qt Company. Today a similar Qt 5.15.4 open-source release is now available, one year after its commercial release...

Intel Gets Back To Working On Linear Address Masking Support For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Wed, 05/11/2022 - 17:37
Back in December 2020 Intel's programming reference manual was updated to cover Linear Address Masking (LAM) as a future CPU feature and there was some GNU toolchain activity around LAM while not much to report on the effort since then -- until today. A revised "request for comments" has been posted on the Intel Linear Address Masking enabling for the Linux kernel that allows for using untranslated address bits of 64-bit linear addresses to be used for storing arbitrary software metadata...

Mesa 22.1-rc5 Released With Dozens Of Fixes For Zink, RADV & Intel Vulkan Drivers

Phoronix - Wed, 05/11/2022 - 17:13
There was hope that Mesa 22.1 would have been released this week but instead it's been diveted to at least next week due to more than 90 patches flowing in the past week. As such, today we have Mesa 22.1-rc5 for another week of testing...

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