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AMD MI200 "Aldebaran" Linux Driver Support No Longer "Experimental"

Phoronix - Fri, 02/04/2022 - 04:56
Back in November AMD announced the MI200 accelerator that has seen its Linux open-source driver support developed under the "Aldebaran" codename going back to February of last year. The AMD developers are now removing the "experimental" flag from that Aldebaran class GPU support...

Intel Publishes 2021 Product Security Report

Phoronix - Fri, 02/04/2022 - 03:25
Intel today published their annual security report that provides various insights into the different security vulnerabilities disclosed and mitigated over the past calendar year...

Igalia Developing Wolvic Browser To Succeed Firefox Reality

Phoronix - Fri, 02/04/2022 - 03:00
A few years ago Mozilla started Firefox Reality as a browser focused on AR/VR mixed reality. Like Mozilla's other failed projects, Firefox Reality is being tossed into the scrap bin next to the likes of Firefox OS and Firefox Send. But thanks to the nature of open-source, the work is being continued on independently by Igalia with the new Wolvic project...

PipeWire 0.3.45 Restores Sound Support For Zoom, Telegram

Phoronix - Thu, 02/03/2022 - 22:28
PipeWire 0.3.45 is out today as the newest update to this audio/video stream server that is becoming increasingly common on the Linux desktop...

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