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Secret Memory Areas For Linux Might Finally Be Ready With memfd_secret

Phoronix - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 15:00
In development for more than one year has been the ability to create secret memory areas on Linux that would be visible only to the owning process and is not mapped for other processes or the kernel page tables. That "memfd_secret" system call has finally materialized in Linux-Next and looking like it could be ready for mainline...

Make Conway's Game of Life in WebAssembly

opensource.com - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 15:00

Conway's Game of Life is a popular programming exercise to create a cellular automaton, a system that consists of an infinite grid of cells. You don't play the game in the traditional sense; in fact, it is sometimes referred to as a game for zero players.


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Getting to know Jennifer Dudeck, Red Hat’s chief people officer

Red Hat News - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 12:00

We are delighted to welcome Jennifer "Jen" Dudeck as senior vice president and chief people officer. In her new role, Jen will be responsible for leading Red Hat’s People team, which is focused on attracting, developing and rewarding associates around the world.

Arcan Presents "Pipeworld" Dataflow Computing Interface

Phoronix - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 12:00
Arcan, the long running open-source display server built atop a game engine that has embraced technologies like XR/VR and Wayland and claims feature parity with X.Org this week announced their new Pipeworld project...

Google Talks Up Logica As Open-Source Programming Language For Data Manipulation

Phoronix - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 06:33
Google engineers are responsible for a number of programming languages like Go, Kotlin, and Dart while their newest one to be made public is Logica...

NVIDIA Announces Grace CPU For ARM-Based AI/HPC Processor

Phoronix - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 00:43
NVIDIA announced today in kicking off GTC21 the "Grace" high performance Arm processor for AI and high performance computing workloads. But before getting too excited, this high performance Arm chip isn't expected to be ready until 2023...

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