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Intel's Scalable Video Technology team is known for their open-source video encoder work particularly on AV1 and VP9 formats, but they also continue to maintain a high performance H.265/HEVC encoder as well. Intel SVT-HEVC 1.5 was released on Monday as their first major update of the year...

Intel's Open-Source H.265/HEVC Encoder Sees First Release Of 2020  Phoronix

At Keyva, we see clients in all phases of their automation journey. Some organizations are just starting out and automating domain lifecycle tasks, such as provisioning firewall rules or automating server builds, while others may be well down the path of creating self-service IT capabilities. In most cases, regardless of where a team is on its journey, they eventually want to arrive at the point where they can provide self-service IT capabilities to the teams and users that want to consume them. 

Global Linux Software Market Size, Share, Trends and Future Growth Predictions till 2025  Express Journal

A number of x86-related changes were sent out today for the first full day of the Linux 5.9 merge window...

Intel SERIALIZE, Dropping Of SGI UV Supercomputer, i386 Clang'ing Hit Linux 5.9  Phoronix

There didn't appear to be much usage ever out of the AMD HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) support within the GCC compiler and hadn't been maintained in a while so now has been wiped out of the GNU Compiler Collection...

Btrfs Seeing Some Nice Performance Improvements For Linux 5.9  Phoronix

With more eyes on Btrfs given the file-system is set to become the default for Fedora 33 desktop spins, there are some interesting performance optimizations coming to Btrfs with the in-development Linux 5.9 kernel...

The Linux Foundation announces collective to enhance open source software security  TechRepublic

Serious Vulnerability In KDE Archive Tool Could Allow Linux Account Takeovers  Cyber Security News

As IoT Continues to Evolve, LF Edge Explores the Edge Continuum in a New White Paper  IoT Evolution World

Linux kernel developers are working on tightening up the access around GPL-only kernel symbols and kernel shims that interface with proprietary kernel modules. This latest work is being driven by code recently put out for improving the Linux networking code where NVIDIA's proprietary kernel driver would be the initial consumer...

Kernel Developers Work To Block NVIDIA "GPL Condom" Effort Around New NetGPU Code  Phoronix

maintain a postgresql database using osm2pgsql - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Linux-Fu: Help Messages For Shell Scripts And Here Documents  Hackaday

Apparently, you can run Windows 10 in a Linux VM on some Chromebooks now  About Chromebooks

The Linux Foundation in cooperation with many hardware and software vendors have announced the Open-Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) for improving open-source security...

Linux Foundation announces new initiative to secure open-source software  SiliconANGLE

Vulkan 1.2.149 is out today and its lone new extension is yet another addition to the Vulkan API for helping translation layers like DXVK map other graphics APIs on top...