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Making use of "-march=tigerlake" for building optimized binaries catering to Intel's latest-generation processors is well worth it on the likes of GCC 11. Out of the new instruction set extensions on Tiger Lake is more uplift than we have seen out of recent Intel generations and comparing the different "-march=" targets shows significant performance benefits if you don't mind compiling your own software from source.

New RansomEXX Ransomware Variant Targets Linux Systems  Cyber Security News

RISC-V based Allwinner chip to debut on $13 Linux hacker board  LinuxGizmos.com

RISC-V based Allwinner chip to debut on $13 Linux hacker board  LinuxGizmos.com

How to install Linux on Windows?  Techstory

ASUS has been evaluating the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for distributing firmware updates to their Linux customers for flashing in turn via Fwupd. Their first motherboard firmware update has now been volleyed onto this open-source platform for easing firmware updates on Linux...

Pick up this coin sized Linux computer with screen for 13% off  PCWorld

This new malware wants to add your Linux servers and IoT devices to its botnet  ZDNet

Compact box computer and signage system feature RK3399  LinuxGizmos.com

Quickly Look for Word Meaning With Quick Lookup in Linux  It's FOSS

Announced by Arm back in September was the Neoverse V1 "Zeus" platform with 50%+ performance uplift over the Neoverse N1. Neoverse V1 also supports Scalable Vector Extensions (SVE) and other features in catering the platform for machine learning, cloud, HPC, and similar use-cases...

Among the many open-source graphics driver improvements being worked on recently by Red Hat's David Airlie from Lavapipe to OpenCL 3.0 Clover work, another recent effort has been around TTM "multihop" as an improvement for this memory management infrastructure used by the likes of the AMDGPU kernel driver...

TTM Multihop Code Revised For Improving Linux GPU Buffer Management  Phoronix

Cyber Security Today – Linux ransomware strain found, a second data breach at Luxottica, Canadian health unit forgets hard drives, and more  IT World Canada

Global Linux Software Market 2020 Industry Share, Size, Growth 2026 By Top Companies- Google Twitter Facebook Amazon IBM Oracle Novell RedHat DELL Samsung Microsoft Market  The Daily Philadelphian

Ubuntu maker Canonical Holdings Limited recently submitted their UK financial report for their fiscal year ending 31 December 2019. During the pre-COVID times they generated around 22% more revenue than 2018 but still operated at a loss albeit more narrowly than in prior years...

Vulkan 1.2.160 is out this morning as the newest revision to the Vulkan graphics/compute API...

Allwinner Is Bringing RISC-V to Cheap Linux Single Board Computers  MakeUseOf

The operators of the RansomEXX ransomware provide the Linux version of their malware  re:Jerusalem

Minishift is a tool that helps you run OKD (Red Hat's open source OpenShift container platform) locally by launching a single-node OKD cluster inside a virtual machine. It is powered by Kubernetes, which is one of my favorite things to talk about.

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