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Intel has maintained a lengthy "Optimization Reference Manual" for showing developers how to optimize code for their latest CPU microarchitectures, but accompanied by their latest manual update is now a lot of actual code samples for easing the process of learning about Intel's optimization techniques for taking full advantage of their latest processors...

Linux 5.13 To Allow Controlling The Second Fan On The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9  Phoronix

As we head into the second half of 2021, it’s a good moment to share a few updates on our latest Co.Lab activities and how, even remotely, we’re still bringing STEM education to students. What’s new you might ask? It’s the evolution. We’re continuing the evolution that began last year out of necessity brought on by the pandemic.

Linux 5.13 To Allow Controlling The Second Fan On The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9  Phoronix

For those thinking about picking up a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 laptop powered by Intel's latest-generation "Tiger Lake" processors, that model will see its second fan now properly supported by the current Linux 5.13 cycle...

For a number of years Google has developed Fibers (not to be confused with Google Fiber, their fiber Internet service) as a user-space scheduling framework. While it hasn't been open-source, the few public papers and talks on Google Fibers has been quite interesting for great performance and a novel design. Finally though Google is working towards open-sourcing Fibers and hoping to get the necessary Linux kernel modifications upstreamed...

Intel's open-source graphics driver engineers have sent in their final feature pull request to DRM-Next of new material they are wanting incorporated into Linux 5.14...

Make Your Linux Desktop Look Beautiful With Dynamic Wallpaper  MUO - MakeUseOf

Make Your Linux Desktop Look Beautiful With Dynamic Wallpaper  MakeUseOf

Octeon TX2 based module powers new ClearFog networking boards  LinuxGizmos.com

EU approves digital health pass as Linux Foundation launches trust network  Biometric Update

Hex Of Steel Now Available On PC, Mac, And Linux Operating Systems  Bleeding Cool News

How to Add Android, Linux & Windows Users to FaceTime Calls in iOS 15  Gadget Hacks

elementary OS 6 beta promises great things in the same beautiful package  TechRepublic

Opera 77 is available for Windows, MacOS and Linux  Nintendo-Power

Last summer Microsoft engineers posted a DRM kernel display driver for their Hyper-V synthetic video device. One year later after going through a few rounds of code review, this Hyper-V DRM driver will be going mainline with the upcoming Linux 5.14 kernel cycle...

Microsoft's Hyper-V DRM Display Driver Will Land For Linux 5.14  Phoronix

How To Install Grafana on Almalinux or Rocky Linux 8 - Linux Shout  H2S Media

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Linux Performance Review  Phoronix

Last week the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti review embargo lifted while today NVIDIA has lifted it on the RTX 3070 Ti ahead of the official availability tomorrow. Here are the initial Linux gaming benchmarks looking at the performance of the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti up against the rest of the GeForce RTX 20 and RTX 30 series GPUs as well as AMD's Radeon RX 6000 series competition.