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Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan Driver Implements Ray-Tracing Pipelines
Mesa's Lavapipe driver as a software (CPU-based) implementation of the Vulkan API has now implemented support for ray-tracing pipelines...
New Spectre v2 attack impacts Linux systems on Intel CPUs - BleepingComputer
New Spectre v2 attack impacts Linux systems on Intel CPUs BleepingComputer
New Spectre v2 attack impacts Linux systems on Intel CPUs - BleepingComputer
New Spectre v2 attack impacts Linux systems on Intel CPUs BleepingComputer
Turbostat Becomes Semi-Useful To Non-Root Users
The turbostat utility is useful on Linux systems for reporting idle/power-state statistics, temperatures, and other useful metrics for modern CPUs. It's also able to dive deeper and provide various MSR values and counters and other intriguing CPU bits. For much of these features root access is required and thus turbostat has bailed out up to this point if not running as root. But as a number of the metrics can still be obtained without root access, turbostat is finally being adapted to handle running better as a non-root user...
Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2024Q1 Brings New Filter To Transform Old Content
Intel's FFmpeg Cartwheel is where they maintain their various yet-to-be-upstreamed patches for the FFmpeg multimedia library either to enhance/enable new Intel graphics hardware support or improve/add extra functionality to this widely-used open-source library. With the Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2024Q1 release they are shipping a new filter for dealing with older content as well as several other new features...
Linux 6.8.5 & Other Stable Kernel Updates Due To Native BHI Vulnerability
Due to yesterday's Native BHI vulnerability disclosure affecting all Intel processors with this variant of Branch History Injection (BHI) not requiring BPF to exploit, a slew of new Linux kernel stable releases are out today to back-port this security mitigation...
Gentoo Linux Now An SPI Project
While the Gentoo Foundation has long existed, to reduce the organizational complexity and overhead as well as becoming effectively a tax deductible non-profit at the US federal level, Gentoo Linux has become an associated project with Software in the Public Interest (SPI)...
WallEscape Vulnerability Leaks User Passwords in Linux - Security Boulevard
WallEscape Vulnerability Leaks User Passwords in Linux Security Boulevard