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Chrome 91 Released With Gravity Sensor API, JSON Modules, WebAssembly SIMD

Phoronix - Wed, 05/26/2021 - 03:42
Google has released Chrome 91 as a rather exciting feature update to their open-source, cross-platform web browser...

Linux 5.14 To Allow Hot Unplug Of AMD Radeon GPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 05/26/2021 - 03:18
Linux 5.14 to debut later in the summer will allow for hot unplugging of AMD Radeon graphics cards such as when using an external GPU enclosure or passing back a GPU from a virtual machine to the host. Up until now the AMDGPU kernel driver hasn't cooperated nicely with the Radeon GPU for hot unplug events...

Half-Double: A New DRAM Rowhammer Vulnerability

Phoronix - Wed, 05/26/2021 - 00:32
The Rowhammer security exploit affecting DRAM memory modules has a new chapter with Google now detailing "half-double" as a new technique for exploit of system memory...

DragonFlyBSD 6.0 Is Performing Very Well Against Ubuntu Linux, FreeBSD 13.0

Phoronix - Tue, 05/25/2021 - 22:52
Earlier this month in our initial benchmarking of DragonFlyBSD 6.0 we found DragonFlyBSD 6.0 performing much better than DragonFlyBSD 5.8, but how does that put its performance up against FreeBSD 13.0 and Ubuntu Linux for reference? Here are such benchmarks in our latest benchmarking of DragonFlyBSD 6.0, FreeBSD 13.0 (with both GCC and Clang), and Ubuntu Linux.

Linux 5.14 To Support F2FS Read-Only Feature

Phoronix - Tue, 05/25/2021 - 21:22
With the Linux 5.14 cycle this summer the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) should land its new "RO" feature read-only mode...

Arm Announces The Cortex-X2 Armv9 Flagship CPU, Cortex-A710, Cortex-A510

Phoronix - Tue, 05/25/2021 - 21:06
Arm today announced the Cortex-X2 as their new flagship Armv9 processor design...

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