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Intel Should Now Have Gen7 Graphics Mitigated Without The Hefty Performance Hit

Phoronix - Sat, 02/01/2020 - 00:54
Earlier this month when Intel disclosed CVE-2019-14615 as a security vulnerability affecting their graphics architecture, older Gen7 graphics saw a huge hit to their performance with the initial patches for addressing this vulnerability on Ivy Bridge and Haswell processors. Fortunately, a new mitigation patch series was sent out this week where they believe the performance costs are now avoided...

Linux Mint Debian 4 Coming - Rebased Against Debian 10, Adds "Boot With NVIDIA" Option

Phoronix - Fri, 01/31/2020 - 23:14
In addition to Linux Mint 20 coming this year that will be based off Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, the Linux Mint crew is preparing LMDE 4 as their re-base of the Debian based variant...

Raspberry Pi Foundation Gets Back To Working On A Vulkan Driver - New Effort By Igalia

Phoronix - Fri, 01/31/2020 - 22:28
With the V3D Gallium3D driver hitting OpenGL ES 3.1 compliance, the Raspberry Pi Foundation and their partners have turned to focusing on getting their Vulkan driver off the ground for Raspberry Pi 4 and future SBCs...

NVIDIA Retiring Their Pre-Fermi "340 Series" Legacy Linux Graphics Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 01/31/2020 - 20:30
NVIDIA has sent out word that they no longer plan to issue anymore driver updates for their 340 series Linux legacy branch...

UBports' Unity 8 Has Working Wayland Support

Phoronix - Fri, 01/31/2020 - 20:14
Lead UBports developer Marius Gripsgard has shared some exciting news: their Unity 8 code is now riding happily on Wayland...

KVM Virtualization Adds Protections For Spectre-V1/L1TF Combination Attack

Phoronix - Fri, 01/31/2020 - 18:05
Following the Xen hypervisor in mitigating against a possible Spectre Variant One and L1 Terminal Fault combination attack, the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) has added its own protections with the Linux 5.6 kernel on top of all the other mitigations they've had to endure as a result of CPU vulnerabilities over the past two years...

CERN Replacing Facebook Workplace With A Set Of Open-Source Software Alternatives

Phoronix - Fri, 01/31/2020 - 16:53
We previously covered how CERN has moved away from Microsoft products over licensing fees and instead has begun employing various open-source alternatives. Now this European Organization for Nuclear Research is moving away from Facebook Workplace to instead make use of more open-source software packages...

5 ways to use Emacs as your RPG dashboard

opensource.com - Fri, 01/31/2020 - 16:02

There are two ways to play a tabletop role-playing game (RPG): You can play an adventure written by the game's publisher or an independent author, or you can play an adventure that is made up as you go. Regardless of which you choose, there's probably prep work to do. One player (generically called the game master) must gather monster or enemy stats, loot tables, and references for rules, and the other players must build characters and apportion (pretend) equipment.


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Create a real-time object tracking camera with TensorFlow and Raspberry Pi

opensource.com - Fri, 01/31/2020 - 16:01

Are you just getting started with machine/deep learning, TensorFlow, or Raspberry Pi?

I created rpi-deep-pantilt as an interactive demo of object detection in the wild, and in this article, I'll show you how to reproduce the video below, which depicts a camera panning and tilting to track my movement across a room.


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