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Windows & Linux get options to disable Intel TSX to prevent Zombieload v2 attacks  ZDNet

While this week we have posted a number of benchmarks on the JCC Erratum and its CPU microcode workaround that introduces new possible performance hits, also being announced this week as part of Intel's security disclosures was "Zombieload Variant Two" as the TSX Async Abort vulnerability that received same-day Linux kernel mitigations. I've been benchmarking the TAA mitigations to the Linux kernel since the moment they hit the public Git tree and here are those initial benchmark results on an Intel Cascade Lake server.

Could Linux help overcome blockchain’s usability challenge?  CryptoSlate

Could Linux help overcome blockchain's usability challenge?  CryptoSlate

We could nonetheless have a 'Year of the Linux desktop'  Mash Viral

Darktable 3.0 is coming soon as the next major release for this open-source RAW photography workflow software...

Linux Operating System Market Growth is Driven by Growing Demand for Secure OS  MENAFN.COM

For those still on the GCC 7 series, GCC 7.5 was released this morning as the final point release to this compiler series with that branch that saw its original release in 2017 now closed...

Why Kali Linux is loved by penetration testers [Q&A]  BetaNews

When writing about the Intel Jump Conditional Code (JCC) Erratum and how Intel is working to mitigate the performance hit of the CPU microcode update with patches to the GNU Assembler, there was some concern expressed by readers that it might hurt AMD performance. That does not appear to be the case...

I started contributing to Kubernetes (K8s) in October 2018, when I was working on the Product Security Incident Response Team at IBM. I was drawn to distributed systems, but I couldn't work with them in my day job, so my mentor, Lin Sun, suggested I contribute to open source distributed systems in my spare time. I became interested in K8s and have never looked back!

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The pip packaging tool is used to interact with third-party Python packages. Its most frequent use is for installing packages in a virtual environment. pip can use many sources to find packages, and it has many ways to specify which packages should be installed.

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As the CEO of a development firm, I know that creating a diverse and inclusive environment is not easy. This issue in our industry is a reflection of the inequality that has afflicted human cultures forever. But if we are driving the technological future, who is to say that we cannot serve as an example for how all industries should address issues of equal workforce representation?

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Released on Wednesday was the NVIDIA 435.27.06 Linux driver as their newest beta build focused on offering better Vulkan driver support...

NVIDIA 435.27.06 Vulkan Linux Driver Has Useful Display Improvements  Phoronix

If you’re an avid Linux user you probably know by now that it is no Operating System for the weak at heart (well sometimes). The chances of you getting crushed when trying to install...

Mesa 19.2.4 was released on Wednesday as an "emergency release" after a bug was discovered that made last week's Mesa 19.2.3 version buggy for all OpenGL drivers...

How to Download and Install KaOS linux on VirtualBox  H2S Media

AWS, Salesforce join forces with Linux Foundation on Cloud Information Model  TechCrunch

CodeWeavers is looking to hire another developer to work on Wine's graphics stack and in particular the WineD3D code while having an emphasis that it's part of Valve's Steam Play (Proton) efforts...