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Proton 7.0-3 With More Games Running Well On Linux, Experimental Preps More Changes

Phoronix - Wed, 06/15/2022 - 06:31
Valve today promoted Proton 7.0-3 to stable as the newest version of this software based on Wine and leveraging DXVK / VKD3D-Proton and other components for running Windows games with great success on Linux. Proton 7.0-3 is now available for Steam Play when firing up the Steam client while Valve also today issued a new Proton Experimental update...

GIMP 2.10.32 Released With JPEG-XL Backported & Other Work While Waiting On GIMP 3.0

Phoronix - Wed, 06/15/2022 - 06:12
We have been writing about GIMP 3.0 for nearly a decade and with that stable release still out of sight, GIMP 2.10.32 is out as a six-month update to the aging GIMP 2.10 stable series...

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...

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