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Oracle security researchers have been working on security feature for Linux kernels that could protect Linux-based systems against attacks that affect Intel’s Hyper-Threading (HT) feature. Multiple side-channel threats the feature's vulnerable against, including L1TF/Foreshadow and the MDS attacks, have been revealed over the past few months. [Souce: Tom's Hardware]

A New Open Source JavaScript engine by Facebook  Linux.com

Facebook has released a new open-source JavaScript engine, Hermes, to speed up start times for native Android apps built with Facebook's own React Native ...

Bryden Wood, Cast, and the Mayor of London have launched a new app to speed up the capital’s home building. The freely-available app, titled PRISM, is aimed at the design and construction of high-quality, factory-built homes to address the current demand of 50,000+ houses per year. London will be the first city in the world to make sure of a freely-available app of this kind, sharing precision housing knowledge and leveraging technology to revolutionize the design process.

Facebook has released a new open-source JavaScript engine, Hermes, to speed up start times for native Android apps built with Facebook's own React Native JavaScript framework. Facebook software engineer Marc Horowitz unveiled the new JavaScript engine at the Chain React 2019 conference on Thursday in Portland, Oregon. Hermes is a new tool for developers to primarily improve app startup performance in the same way Facebook already does for its apps, and to make apps more efficient on low-end smartphones.

Purism’s upcoming Librem 5 Linux phone inches closer to being able to do what phones do  Liliputing

The upcoming Librem 5 smartphone doesn't have the fastest processor, the most RAM, the highest-res display, the most cameras, or any of the other ...

How to install WPS office Linux on Ubuntu 19.04  H2S Media

Here we are let you know how to install WPS office Linux on Debian base platforms like Ubuntu 19.04,18.04,16.04,14.04; Linux Mint, Elementary OS and more...

Purism has shared their July update on their Librem 5 Linux smartphone progress, which is mostly focused around inching along their software support but without any update on their hardware or final design. While their latest public information has continued to report a "Q3" ship date, that's looking increasingly unlikely...

Linux Fu: Named Pipe Dreams  Hackaday

If you use just about any modern command line, you probably understand the idea of pipes. Pipes are the ability to connect the output from one program to the ...

Linux May Gain Protection Against Hyper-Threading Attacks  Tom's Hardware

Devs have built a feature that aims to protect apps running in the Linux kernel against side-channel attacks on Intel CPUs using Hyper-Threading.

AMD: Patch On The Way For Ryzen 3000 Customers Affected By 'Destiny 2' And Linux Boot Problems  Forbes

AMD has ironed out the big Destiny 2 and Linux bugs affecting Ryzen 3000 CPU users.

AMD has just alerted us that they have released a BIOS fix to their motherboard partners that takes care of the issue around booting newer Linux distributions on the new Zen 2 processors...

AMD Releases BIOS Fix To Motherboard Partners For Booting Newer Linux Distributions  Phoronix

AMD has just alerted us that they have released a BIOS fix to their motherboard partners that takes care of the issue around booting newer Linux distributions on ...

It's been (and still is) a particularly busy few weeks for benchmarking. For those curious about the Raspberry Pi 4 performance that was announced at the end of June along with Raspbian 10, here are our initial performance benchmarks of the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B in 2GB and 4GB variants compared to various other ARM SBCs.

Osram takeover and Linux Auto expands - the week  just-auto.com

News Osram's board was supporting an offer for the supplier from a bidding consortium of Bain Capital and The Carlyle Group was the most-read item on ...

GIS on Linux with SAGA  Linux Journal

In this article, I want to look at a GIS option available for Linux—specifically, a program called SAGA (System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses). SAGA was ...

Debian Linux 10 'Buster' Places Stability Ahead of Excitement  LinuxInsider.com

After 25 months of development, the makers of the granddaddy of the Linux OSes released an upgrade that updates many of the software packages and plays ...

Collabora's Pekka Paalanen landed another optimization this week into GNOME's Mutter for further enhancing the performance of using DisplayLink hardware and similar secondary GPUs under this Linux desktop...

F2FS is already very fast compared to the long-standing Linux file-systems when benchmarking on solid-state drives while for Linux 5.3 this file-system is getting in even better shape...

With the growing number of devices requiring loadable firmware/microcode at run-time and Linux continuing to simply support a lot more hardware, the size of /lib/firmware has ballooned in recent years while now for the upcoming Linux 5.3 kernel release is the ability to compress these firmware files for fairly significant space savings...

Linux 5.3 Picks Up Support For Compressed Firmware Files - Measurable Storage Savings  Phoronix

With the growing number of devices requiring loadable firmware/microcode at run-time and Linux continuing to simply support a lot more hardware, the size of ...