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Looking At The New "Critical" Security Firmware Update Hitting Systems - Delivers New Intel Microcode

Phoronix - Fri, 01/21/2022 - 22:19
Earlier this week the Linux Vendor Firmware Service began surging with activity following many new system firmware files being uploaded for what appears to be a "high severity upcoming security issue" but currently undisclosed. That issue hasn't been made public yet, but after poking around it is updating the Intel CPU microcode.

A Look At Alder Lake Against Older CPUs Going Back To Sandy Bridge, Kaveri

Phoronix - Fri, 01/21/2022 - 20:13
After recently carrying out the Core i5 12400 Linux benchmarks against other modern processors, for curiosity I ran some benchmarks on some older hardware going back to AMD Kaveri and Intel Sandy Bridge for a look at how the modern Ubuntu performance compares across all those systems...

X.Org Foundation May Find A New Organization To Join

Phoronix - Fri, 01/21/2022 - 18:33
For the past several years the X.Org Foundation has been part of Software in the Public Interest (SPI) but are now considering other possible arrangements moving forward...

Linux 5.17 Adds GPU Recovery Support For AMD Rembrandt APUs

Phoronix - Fri, 01/21/2022 - 18:06
On top of all the GPU driver feature changes to merge last week, yesterday marked the first batch of "fixes" sent in to Linux 5.17 for the Direct Rendering Manager drivers. Notable from this batch of fixes is getting GPU recovery enabled for Yellow Carp / Rembrandt APUs...

Make a video game with Bitsy

opensource.com - Fri, 01/21/2022 - 16:01

There are many game design programs and many different possible approaches to game design, but for me, the one that stands out is Bitsy. Created by Adam Le Doux in 2017 and released under an MIT license, Bitsy is, in the words of its creator: "A little editor for little games or worlds. The goal is to make it easy to make games where you can walk around, talk to people, and be somewhere."


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What you need to know about fuzz testing and Go

opensource.com - Fri, 01/21/2022 - 16:00

The usage of Go is growing rapidly. It is now the preferred language for writing cloud-native software, container software, command-line tools, databases, and more. Go has had built-in support for testing for quite some time now. It makes writing tests and running them using the Go tool relatively easy.


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