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Apple CPUs Affected By New SLAP & FLOP Side-Channel Attacks

Phoronix - Wed, 01/29/2025 - 03:00
Apple is the latest CPU vendor being affected by side-channel attacks. All Mac laptops since 2022, all Mac desktops since 2023, and all iPhones / iPad Pro / iPad Air / iPad Mini models since 2021 are affected by these new SLAP and FLOP attacks...

System76's New Linux Mini PC Pairs Intel Meteor Lake + Dual 2.5G Ethernet + Coreboot

Phoronix - Wed, 01/29/2025 - 00:06
System76 this morning announced the 2025 version of their Meerkat mini Linux PC. This new mini PC designed for Linux pairs an Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" SoC with dual 2.5G Ethernet and booting using Coreboot for a intriguing combination whether it's for a lightweight Linux desktop PC or a small office/home server...

Raspberry Pi 5 16GB Running Well For Larger Workloads, More Multi-Tasking

Phoronix - Tue, 01/28/2025 - 23:46
Earlier this month the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB was announced for finally pushing the Raspberry Pi single board computers beyond an 8GB limit for RAM. This opens up the Raspberry Pi 5 to new use-cases, more multi-tasking, and other applications where 8GB of RAM / 2GB per core was a bottleneck. In my tests thus far of the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB it's been working out well and helping the performance of some workloads by reducing the memory pressure / swapping.

Thunderbolt 3 AltMode Driver & Other USB Improvements For Linux 6.14

Phoronix - Tue, 01/28/2025 - 23:13
In addition to sending out the char/misc pull request that completed work on the NTSYNC driver, Greg Kroah-Hartman yesterday also sent out the USB/Thunderbolt pull request for Linux 6.14. The USB/Thunderbolt updates include new hardware support, Chrome OS improvements, and other changes...

WavPack 5.8 Lossless Audio Compression Tools Now Enable Multi-Threading By Default

Phoronix - Tue, 01/28/2025 - 21:50
The open-source WavPack lossless audio compression format is out with a new release today for this BSD-licensed software around this audio code container...

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