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Chrome 95 has rolled out as stable today as the latest version of Google's web browser...

In recent months we have seen a lot of RadeonSI optimizations focused on SPECViewPerf with AMD seemingly trying to get this open-source OpenGL driver into very capable shape moving forward for workstation GL workloads. Hitting Mesa 22.0-devel today is yet another round of patches for tuning SPECViewPerf...

Linux Software Market May Set New Growth Story | Samsung, Microsoft, Amazon – EcoChunk  EcoChunk

Karanbir Singh who had served as the CentOS Project Leader and involved with the community-based RHEL distribution since 2004 has stepped down from his roles...

Juno readies Intel Tiger Lake-H and AMD Ryzen 5000U Linux-based laptops  Notebookcheck.net

AlmaLinux Announces ELevate Project to Migrate or Upgrade Any Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based Distribution  Business Wire

Users Can Now Play Windows 95’s Space Cadet on Linux and Windows 11  WinBuzzer

New Linux laptop offers RTX 3080 and 144 Hz 17-inch screen  Ars Technica

Create your own data center-specific Linux image with Cubic  TechRepublic

Disney+ streams to Linux-based VIDAA Smart OS  Light Reading

Disney+ streams to Linux-based VIDAA Smart OS  Light Reading

Announced earlier this year for Google Cloud was a new family of virtual machines called Tau VMs. The initial T2D instances are powered by AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" processors to deliver leading performance and are also positioned to deliver great value in going up against the likes of Amazon's Graviton2 instances. Tau VM instances are now available as a preview and Google has provided us with gratis access to the new instance types for benchmarking.

Foundries.io Announces Support for Arm® SystemReady Initiative with Future-proof Linux Platform for Securing IoT and Edge Products  Business Wire

Foundries.io Announces Support for Arm® SystemReady Initiative with Future-proof Linux Platform for Securing IoT and Edge Products  Yahoo Finance

Last Friday night we spotted OpenCL 3.0.9 with several new extensions included. Today The Khronos Group is formally announcing these latest OpenCL additions focused on Vulkan interoperability as well as neural network inferencing...

The PinePhone Pro Is Here. But It's Still Probably Not The Year Of Open-Source Linux On The Smartphone  Hackaday

With OSS-Fuzz for continuous fuzzing of open-source projects and along with working on the various sanitizers for compilers, Google has been doing a lot for proactively uncovering software defects in key open-source projects. Now though a group of their engineers have been working on SiliFuzz for software aiming to discover new CPU defects...

Juno Linux laptop range with AMD and Intel options launches from $1150  Geeky Gadgets

Microsoft tells sysadmins to update PowerShell 7 to fix flaw that could expose credentials in Linux  BetaNews

As another possible performance win for RadeonSI Gallium3D as AMD's open-source Radeon OpenGL driver on Linux systems is enabling of NGG culling for Navi 1x consumer graphics processors rather than limiting it only to newer Navi 2x (RDNA2) GPUs...