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BLAKE3 Cryptographic Hashing Function Sees Experimental Vulkan Implementation

Phoronix - Wed, 04/29/2020 - 12:09
BLAKE3, the cryptographic hash function that advertises itself as being "much faster" than the likes of SHA1 and MD5 and its predecessor BLAKE2 while being more secure and highly parallelizable has seen an experimental implementation for GPU-based acceleration using the Vulkan API...

Recapping day one of Red Hat Summit Virtual Experience

Red Hat News - Wed, 04/29/2020 - 12:00

There was a lot to take in from day one of the Red Hat Summit Virtual Experience. Just in case you missed it, here are some of the highlights and a sneak peek at day two.

Intel Gen11+ Graphics See An Easy Bump On Mesa 20.1-devel

Phoronix - Wed, 04/29/2020 - 07:21
There's been a lot of interesting work hitting Mesa Git this week ahead of the Mesa 20.1 code branching and feature freeze. Merged this afternoon was a rather simple optimization benefiting Gen11 (Icelake) and newer for their open-source Vulkan driver, it's such a simple change it is almost surprising it took so long to benefit...

QEMU 5.0 Released For This Important Open-Source Emulator For Linux Virtualization

Phoronix - Wed, 04/29/2020 - 03:53
QEMU 5.0 is out today for this processor emulator that is a key piece to the Linux virtualization stack...

Proton 5.0-7 Being Prepared With Newer DXVK, Updated VKD3D Layer

Phoronix - Wed, 04/29/2020 - 00:05
Valve along with their comrades at CodeWeavers are preparing Proton 5.0-7 as the newest version of their Wine-based software powering Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux...

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