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GRUB 2.06 Released With BootHole Fixes, LUKS2 Encrypted Volume Support

Phoronix - Wed, 06/09/2021 - 06:03
It's shipping one year late but GRUB 2.06 is now officially available as the latest version of this widely-used open-source bootloader...

New open source agriculture project, Stack Overflow survey, and celebrate open source maintainers

opensource.com - Wed, 06/09/2021 - 04:00

Read on to learn more about what made news in the open source world last month.

Linux Foundation launches open source agriculture infrastructure project

A wave of new artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT)-connected tools has reached the agricultural space. The Linux Foundation announced a new project, called AgStack Foundation, to boost open source infrastructure across global agriculture.


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Intel Continues Working On New ISA Extensions To Help Fight Speculation Vulnerabilities

Phoronix - Wed, 06/09/2021 - 02:01
In addition to making public new security advisories this Patch Tuesday requiring updated CPU microcode, Intel also issued a press statement about their ongoing fight against speculation vulnerabilities with their processors...

Intel Releases New CPU Microcode Due To New Security Vulnerabilities (June 2021)

Phoronix - Wed, 06/09/2021 - 01:07
Intel just issued a big set of CPU microcode updates for addressing a new set of security advisories just made public...

AMD Announces The Radeon PRO W6000 Series - RDNA2 Workstation GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 06/08/2021 - 21:57
Following their tease last week, AMD today formally announced the Radeon PRO W6000 series as their newest and most powerful RDNA (2) based workstation cards...

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