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Driving healthcare IT transformation with global systems integrators

Red Hat News - Wed, 06/10/2020 - 12:00

Successful digital transformation can create sustained growth and competitive advantage, but it’s often a highly complex undertaking that requires coordination across people, processes, organizational cultures and, of course, technology. In addition, each journey is shaped by the industries in which a particular enterprise is undergoing transformation.

"CrossTalk" / SRBDS Is The Newest Side-Channel Vulnerability

Phoronix - Tue, 06/09/2020 - 22:33
Details are still coming in but INTEL-SA-00320, a.k.a. "CrossTalk", is the newest Intel side-channel CPU vulnerability...

Open-Source 3D/Compute Finally Materializing For NVIDIA Volta / Turing GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 06/09/2020 - 21:36
The open-source Nouveau kernel driver has supported Volta GPUs for some time and since Linux 5.6 also supported open-source initialization of Turing GPUs for hardware acceleration. But missing for Volta and Turing has been the Mesa-side support for enabling 3D (OpenGL) and compute (OpenCL) functionality on these newer GPUs. That is finally changing with pending Mesa patches...

Raspberry Pi Vulkan Driver Making Progress But Long Road Remains

Phoronix - Tue, 06/09/2020 - 20:47
Consulting firm Igalia that has been working under contract with the Raspberry Pi Foundation on developing a Raspberry Pi Vulkan driver for the Raspberry Pi 4 and future SBCs has provided a status update on their development efforts...

KDE Plasma 5.19 Released After Lots Of Polishing, Better Wayland Support

Phoronix - Tue, 06/09/2020 - 19:59
The KDE community has released Plasma 5.19 on schedule this morning...

Google Engineer Uncovers Holes In Linux's Speculative Execution Mitigations

Phoronix - Tue, 06/09/2020 - 19:04
There are some urgent fixes pending for the x86/x86_64 speculative execution handling for the Linux kernel following a Google security engineer discovering these issues, including one of the fixes address a situation that unfairly impacted AMD CPUs...

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