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Benchmarks Of Firefox 74 + Firefox 75 Beta On Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 03/12/2020 - 07:19
With the release of Firefox 74.0 yesterday and that also pushing Firefox 75.0 to beta, here are some fresh benchmarks on Ubuntu Linux of Firefox 73 vs. 74 vs. 75 Beta, both out-of-the-box and when force enabling WebRender...

GNU Assembler Adds New Options For Mitigating Load Value Injection Attack

Phoronix - Thu, 03/12/2020 - 02:55
Yesterday the Load Value Injection (LVI) vulnerability was disclosed by Intel and researchers and affecting newer Intel CPUs with SGX and requiring mitigations outside of all the speculative execution mitigations the past two years. The GNU Assembler patches adding new options for mitigation have now been merged to Git master...

GNOME 3.36 Released With Latest Wayland Improvements, Parental Controls, New Lock Screen

Phoronix - Wed, 03/11/2020 - 23:28
Red Hat's Matthias Clasen had the honor of announcing GNOME 3.36 as the latest half-year update to the GNOME 3 desktop environment...

LoadLibrary: Support For Loading Windows DLLs On Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 03/11/2020 - 22:03
A Google researcher has been developing "LoadLibrary" as a means of being able to load Windows Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs) that in turn can be used by native Linux code...

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