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Git Releases Security Update With Newline Character Creating Possible Credential Leak

Phoronix - Wed, 04/15/2020 - 02:14
Git 2.26.1 along with new point releases going back to Git 2.17 were issued today as a result of a security issue...

Radeon GPU Analyzer 2.3.1 Released

Phoronix - Wed, 04/15/2020 - 00:50
Radeon GPU Analyzer 2.3.1 is now available as the GPUOpen utility for analyzing Vulkan / DirectX / OpenGL / OpenCL code across platforms for performance profiling and other purposes...

How young people can help fight COVID-19 with code

opensource.com - Tue, 04/14/2020 - 23:18

More than 91% of students around the world are impacted by school closures due to COVID-19, and most governments have temporarily closed academic institutions. That's nearly 1.6 billion young people in 188 countries. Also, most of the learning platforms available online today aren't practical, engaging, or interactive, and lack true virtual collaboration.


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AMD EPYC 7F52 Linux Performance - AMD 7FX2 CPUs Further Increasing The Fight Against Intel Xeon

Phoronix - Tue, 04/14/2020 - 21:00
AMD today is announcing three new EPYC 7002 "Rome" SKUs in the form of the 7F32, 7F52, and 7F72 processors. The AMD 7F52 processors we have been recently testing and offers some impressive performance potential as while it's a 16-core / 32-thread part it offers an impressive 256MB L3 cache (16MB per core). Here are our initial Linux benchmarks of the AMD EPYC 7F52 in 1P and 2P configurations up against various AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon processors.

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