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Merged this week to Linux Git ahead of Linux 6.18-rc3 this Sunday were the latest power management fixes for the kernel. Standing out in the power management code is a fix for a "serious performance regression" affecting some Intel-powered Chromebooks...

I ditched Windows and built a Linux laptop in minutes - here's how you can, too  ZDNET

With Amazon recently launching their M8a AWS instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin", for their M8 class instance types there now are all the latest-generation CPU options with AMD EPYC Turin (M8a), Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids (M8i), and their in-house Graviton4 processors (M8g). After recently looking at the M7a vs. M8a performance with Amazon EC2, many Phoronix readers expressed interest in seeing an M8a vs. M8i vs. M8g performance showdown so here are those benchmarks.

Intel Xe3P Spotted In Latest Linux Kernel Patches, Confirms Pairing With Nova Lake CPUs  Wccftech

AMD's ISP4 image signal processing IP is so far just used by the HP ZBook Ultra G1a laptop but will presumably be used by more of the higher-end AMD Ryzen next-gen laptops. AMD engineers today posted their fifth iteration of their open-source Linux driver for enabling the ISP4 use...

Updated AMD ISP4 Driver Posted For Linux With Fixes & Improvements  Phoronix

LockBit 5.0 Targets Windows, Linux, and ESXi Systems in Ongoing Attacks  GBHackers News

Download dispatch (free) for Windows, macOS and Linux  Gizmodo

Vulkan 1.4.330 is out today with a few specification corrections/clarifications plus five new extensions...

3 Handy Linux Apps to Try This Weekend (October 24 - 26)  Yahoo! Tech

3 Handy Linux Apps to Try This Weekend (October 24 - 26)  How-To Geek

Intel adds Xe3P GPUs for Nova Lake S/H/U/HX to Vulkan Linux drivers, not all will support raytracing  VideoCardz.com

Microsoft's ROG Xbox Ally Runs Faster and Smoother on Linux Than on Windows  extremetech.com

Asahi Linux Still Working On Apple M3 Support, m1n1 Bootloader Going Rust  Phoronix

The Asahi Linux developers involved with working on Linux support for Apple Silicon M-Series devices have put out a new progress report on their development efforts...

Valve contractor Timur Kristóf for their Linux graphics driver team has been working on improving Linux driver support for old AMD Radeon GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 generation GPUs. This has been about improving the AMDGPU driver to fill remaining gaps in GCN 1.0/1.1 support with those graphics cards by default relying on the older "Radeon" DRM kernel graphics driver compared to the AMDGPU driver used by default with GCN 1.2 and later. Another feature gap for AMDGPU is now being addressed with Video Coding Engine 1.0 support...

New Code Allows VCE 1.0 Video Acceleration To Work On AMDGPU Driver For GCN 1.0 GPUs  Phoronix

Patina 13.0 is now available as this Rust implementation of UEFI firmware. Patina has been working to replace the core UEFI firmware components in a pure Rust implementation to avoid the use of C code...

Xubuntu Website Hacked to Spread Malware Via Downloads: What You Need to Know  Bitdefender

Back in August, open-source developer Masahiro Yamada stepped down from maintaining the Kconfig and Kbuild areas of the Linux kernel. While Kbuild maintainership was quickly passed on, no one immediately stepped up to maintain Kconfig as the infrastructure code for configuring the Linux kernel builds. That led to Kconfig officially being orphaned code within the kernel but now that situation has been addressed...