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Flax Engine 1.8 Brings ASTC Textures, New UI Editor & New Vehicle Features

Phoronix - Sat, 03/30/2024 - 21:14
A new version of Flax Engine 1.8 has been released, the open-source game engine that's available for free for non-commercial and education use but with a 4% royalty for commercial games...

KDE Introduces New Marknote App

Phoronix - Sat, 03/30/2024 - 20:56
KDE developers have announced the first release of Marknote, a new note-taking application for the KDE Plasma desktop...

Linux Fixes Botched SRSO Mitigation For AMD Zen 3 / Zen 4

Phoronix - Sat, 03/30/2024 - 18:54
Disclosed last August was the AMD Inception vulnerability also known as SRSO for the Speculative Return Stack Overflow. The kernel-side patches for the AMD SRSO mitigation were quickly merged. Following that were more clean-ups and fixes to the SRSO mitigation code. It's been a quiet few months since while merged on Friday was fixing some of the mitigation code due to being ineffective...

Asahi AGX Gallium3D Driver Sees Big Sync For Mesa 24.1 To Improve Apple Silicon Graphics

Phoronix - Sat, 03/30/2024 - 18:45
Lead Asahi AGX Gallium3D driver developer Alyssa Rosenzweig has carried out a big sync to upstream Mesa 24.1 for this open-source Apple Silicon OpenGL graphics driver...

KDE Plasma 6 Refinements Continue, Fixes 3+ Important Crashes This Week

Phoronix - Sat, 03/30/2024 - 18:37
For the weekly "This Week In KDE" development summary, developer Nate Graham highlighted the opt-in DrKonqi crash reporting wizard. Thanks in part to that opt-in automatic crash reporting, details were gathered for fixing at least three important crashes within Plasma 6 this week...

GitHub Disables The XZ Repository Following Today's Malicious Disclosure

Phoronix - Sat, 03/30/2024 - 09:53
Today's disclosure of XZ upstream release packages containing malicious code to compromise remote SSH access has certainly been an Easter weekend surprise... The situation only looks more bleak over time with how the upstream project was compromised while now the latest twist is GitHub disabling the XZ repository in its entirety...

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