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MemryX MX3 M.2 Module Delivers Nice AI Performance With A Great Software Experience Review  Phoronix

While there are a growing number of startups offering AI accelerators, many of them are more or less vaporware and the other big challenge even among those actually shipping products is their software stacks are very premature or an outright heaping mess. Surprisingly there's a company known as MemryX that was started out of the University of Michigan AI research that is both shipping actual hardware -- and at a decent price point -- and where the software stack is a pleasant experience that works on both Windows and Linux. Here are my initial experiences in testing out the MemryX M.2 module that features four of their in-house MX3 AI accelerator chips.

Hackers Exploiting Linux eBPF to Spread Malware in Ongoing Campaign  HackRead

The 4 easiest ways to test Linux on your old PC before Windows 10 support runs out  ZDNet

VMware Workstation Pro Update Brings Linux Fixes  OMG! Ubuntu!

System76 Just Upgraded Its Linux Pangolin Laptop  How-To Geek

On Tuesday the UEFI Forum released the UEFI 2.11 specification alongside the Platform Initialization (PI) 1.9 specification...

Intel’s newest B580 GPU underperforms last-gen Arc Alchemist cards in Linux benchmarks – likely due to early teething pains  Tom's Hardware

Multiple GStreamer Vulnerabilities Impact Linux Distributions Using GNOME  CybersecurityNews

Back for the Linux 6.12 kernel EROFS introduced support for file-backed mounts to help with container and sandboxing use-cases. As part of the EROFS "fixes" merged yesterday to the Linux 6.13 kernel, file-backed mounts are now using buffered I/O by default to speed-up container start times...

Xfce 4.20 is out: Wayland support lands, but some pieces are still missing  The Register

The latest house cleaning of the Linux kernel is looking to drop support for IBM Cell Blade servers for those platforms from the better part of two decades ago with Cell BE processors that also had worked their way into some supercomputers at the time...

Linux Looks To Drop Support For IBM Cell Blade Servers  Phoronix

These Are The Most Useful Linux Apps I Discovered in 2024  It's FOSS News

A drm-intel-gt-next pull request was sent in today to DRM-Next of the latest batch of Intel kernel graphics driver updates destined for the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle...

Intel Linux Graphics Driver To Do A Better Job Of Keeping Track Of Its Engine Busyness  Phoronix

Fedora Asahi Remix 41 Release Adds Support for AAA Gaming  It's FOSS News

Latest VMware update is free with no license, fixes Windows 11 and Linux freezes, crashes  Neowin

A few weeks back I reviewed the SilverStone XE360-SP5 and XE04-SP5 cooling solutions catering to AMD EPYC 9004/9005 Socket SP5 processors. These coolers worked well with 400 Watt EPYC processors and especially the XE360-SP5 all-in-one liquid cooling was very performant and practical with today's server CPU TDPs ever increasing. After that SilverStone mentioned to me they had a new heatsink that could run up to 13 degrees cooler than the XE04-SP5 4U air cooler... Talk about intriguing. Meet the new SilverStone XED120S-WS for high-end air cooling for up to 450 Watt processors while working with multiple Intel and AMD CPU sockets.

How to use the Hydra password-cracking tool  TechTarget