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As the demand for artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing grows, so does the power consumption of data centers. Data centers are the backbone of the modern digital economy, but they are also some of the biggest contributors to global energy usage. With the generative AI (gen AI) explosion and the increased demand for AI workloads and power, there has also been an uptick in technology’s carbon footprint.This presents a critical challenge: how can data centers manage their energy consumption without sacrificing the performance needed to support their AI applications? The new Climatik

DXVK 2.5 Improves Memory Management in God of War and Other Video Games  9to5Linux

DXVK 2.5 was just released as the newest version of this open-source project implementing Direct3D APIs atop the Vulkan API for better handling of Windows games on Linux systems as used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) software...

Memtest86+ 7.0 debuted back in January while now as we approach the end of 2024, Memtest86+ 7.20 is now available as the latest significant update to this open-source memory tester commonly used on Intel and AMD systems...

The latest terminology within the Fedora camp causing concern is "karma" that's long been used for conveying feedback around package updates with their Bodhi software used for gating Fedora Linux package updates...

Fedora Linux Is Getting a New Installer  Review Geek

Fedora Linux Is Getting a New Installer  How-To Geek

Debian 12.8 Released  WebProNews

How to install Nvidia drivers on Linux Debian, explained  Cantech Letter

How to easily update Windows Subsystem for Linux 2’s kernel  PCWorld

Microsoft Announces Open-Source Hyperlight For Embedded VMM Within Linux/Windows Apps  Phoronix

Microsoft last month announced the open-source Rust-written OpenHCL for running confidential Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP virtual machines. Today Microsoft is announcing another interesting open-source, Rust-based project in the virtualization space: Hyperlight. Microsoft's Hyperlight project is an embed-friendly, lightweight VMM for use within Linux and Windows applications...

While not as exciting as if it were Apple M3/M4 device support hitting the upstream mainline Linux kernel, but for those with some older Apple (pre-M1) devices around, support for a number of older SoCs and boards is set to arrive with the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel...

Basic Support For Many Pre-M1 Apple Devices Coming To Linux 6.13  Phoronix

As another effort for boosting the energy efficiency and behavior of Intel Core platforms with a mix of energy efficient "E" and performance "P" cores, a set of patches were posted Friday night for adapting Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) to the Intel P-State CPU frequency scaling driver with a focus on providing better energy efficient performance initially for Lunar Lake SoCs...

New CRON#TRAP malware uses hidden Linux VM  DM News

Qila Joins Forces with LF Decentralized Trust to Propel Web3 Adoption  CoinTrust

Set to be merged during the upcoming Linux 6.13 merge window is support with the Rust programming language infrastructure for allowing in-place kernel modules...

Linux 6.13 Rust Support Allowing For In-Place Modules  Phoronix

The Intel Diamond Rapids target has been merged in time for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler release to allow for "-march=diamondrapids" targeting for leveraging the array of new CPU ISA additions found with these next-gen Xeon processors...