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Intel oneAPI Toolkits 2022.2 Released With ISPCRT, More Arc Graphics Preparations

Phoronix - Thu, 05/19/2022 - 03:00
Intel today published their latest update (v2022.2) to the oneAPI Toolkits, their collection of open-source software components for empowering modern workloads across the growing world of CPUs/GPUs/XPUs...

Intel Linux Driver Wiring Up New "vRAM Self Refresh" Feature For Arc Graphics Cards

Phoronix - Thu, 05/19/2022 - 02:03
With the upcoming Linux 5.19 cycle appearing to be the point at which Intel's DG2/Alchemist Linux graphics driver support is settling down and may end up being the base version requirement for their forthcoming discrete graphics cards, we are seeing other non-core feature work happen for these Arc Graphics products. A new feature we've only seen mentioned today for the first time by Intel is "vRAM SR", short for vRAM Self-Refresh...

AMD Launches Xilinx + Linux Powered Robotics Starter Kit

Phoronix - Thu, 05/19/2022 - 02:00
AMD on Tuesday released the Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit featuring a Xilinx Kria K26 System-on-Module and tailoring it for robotics, machine vision, and industrial communication/control use-cases while running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS...

VirtualBox On Linux Affected By Security Vulnerability Leaking Host Data To Guests

Phoronix - Thu, 05/19/2022 - 01:36
Security researcher Jason Donenfeld who is known for leading the development of the WireGuard open-source software has outlined a new security vulnerability affecting the Oracle VM VirtualBox software...

Arch Linux Installer Preparing FIDO2 Support For Handling Disk Encryption

Phoronix - Wed, 05/18/2022 - 21:30
The Arch Linux installer "Archinstall" that makes it simple to quickly and easily get this popular distribution installed has prepared a new release candidate where they are introducing FIDO2 support...

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