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X.Org Server 1.20.11 Released Due To New Security Advisory

Phoronix - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 23:02
Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative has uncovered another security issue with the X.Org Server...

SiFive Tapes Out Their First 5nm RISC-V Processor Core

Phoronix - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 21:25
SiFive's OpenFive business unit announced today they have completed their first tape out of a RISC-V processor core using TSMC's 5nm process...

Vulkan Video Arrives For New Industry-Standard Video Encode/Decode

Phoronix - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 21:00
For years we have been eager to learn more about the long mentioned Vulkan Video API, which was supposed to come in H1-2020, but now has finally arrived with today's v1.2.175 update in provisional form. The new Vulkan Video extensions allow for GPU-accelerated video encode/decode. The initial public work is treated as a provisional specification and with limited codec coverage but will be expanded upon in time...

Multigenerational LRU Code Updated For Enhancing Linux Kernel Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 20:44
Last month Google engineers proposed multi-generational LRU for Linux to enhance the kernel performance and today the work has advanced to a second version...

Vulkan 1.2.175 Published With Many New Extensions

Phoronix - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 19:11
Vulkan 1.2.175 is now public as the latest Vulkan API specification and it's bringing with it many new extensions...

ROCm AOMP 13.0 Released For OpenMP Offloading To Radeon GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 18:41
AOMP 13.0 is out today as the first update to AMD's Radeon OpenMP offloading compiler since AOMP 11.0 last December...

Slackware 15 Beta Process Begins

Phoronix - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 17:49
Back in February Slackware 15.0 went into alpha, nine years since Slackware 14.0 made its debut or even five years since Slackware 14.2. Now Slackware 15.0 is up to its beta phase...

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