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Linux block maintainer and IO_uring lead developer Jens Axboe recently was debugging some slowdowns in the AHCI/SCSI code with IO_uring usage. When turning to Claude AI to help in sorting through the issue, patches were devised that can deliver up to a "literally yield a 50-80x improvement on the io_uring side for idle systems." The code is on its way to the Linux kernel...

My favourite thing about Linux gaming will now automagically apply crucial fan patches to your Metal Gear installs, making it even easier than on Windows  PC Gamer

Linux Kernel 7.0 Speeds Up File Cache Memory Reclaim by Up to 75%  TechPowerUp

This tiny tool is a game changer for reading Git history  How-To Geek

The Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 is a single socket AMD EPYC 9004/9005 E-ATX server motherboard for those wanting up to 24 RDIMMs, dual 10 Gigabit LAN, and plenty of storage potential via six MCIO connectors and four PCIe Gen5 x16 slots. Beyond offering nice capabilities for this modern AMD EPYC server motherboard at a ~$700 USD price point, it's uniquely positioned for an open-source firmware future thanks to ongoing work around AMD openSIL and hopefully followed by OpenBMC.

The newest addition to AMD's ROCm/HIP portfolio is HIP Threads "hipThreads" as a C++ style concurrency library for AMD GPUs...

VoidLink and the New Reality of AI-Driven Linux Malware  Morphisec

When searching for "MT7902" and "Linux" there is no shortage of users asking about Linux driver support for the Mediatek MT7902 WiFi chipset or users complaining about their MT7902 WiFi not working under Linux with that chipset found in numerous laptops in recent years. Fortunately, there is finally Linux driver support for the MT7902 surfacing for review on the Linux kernel mailing list...

Mediatek MT7902 WiFi Finally Seeing Open-Source Linux Driver Activity  Phoronix

How I found the perfect Linux OS and stopped distro hopping  How-To Geek

This is the best way to install apps on Linux that you aren't using  How-To Geek

Netbase Brings NetBSD Userland Utilities to Linux  Linuxiac

Linux Security Models for Web Application Protection in High-Risk eCommerce Environments  ilounge.com

Get some great games in the new Beamdog & Owlcat RPG Bundle  GamingOnLinux

The latest Firefox update finally ends support for Windows 7  PC Gamer

After delays, Weston 15.0 shipped this morning as the latest feature release to this reference Wayland compositor. Weston 15.0 comes in heavy on new features - including a Vulkan renderer in experimental form...

Anti-Cheat is coming to Rocket League, and it will support Linux  OC3D

Love, Long Distance, and Linux: Building a VPN Blind to Bridge the Gap  HackerNoon

Merged on Wednesday were some additional memory management "MM" updates for the Linux 7.0 merge window. Most interesting out of these latest three dozen patches is support for batched unmapping of file-backed large folios...

Simdjson is the open-source project for high performance JSON parsing by leveraging SIMD instructions for "parsing gigabytes of JSON per second." Notably it showed years ago the huge performance advantage to using AVX-512 in JSON parsing for surprisingly big benefits. Simdjson has continued advancing since then with various optimizations over the years and today is out with simdjson 4.3 that brings yet more SIMD optimizations...