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AMD XDNA Linux Driver Preps For New Ryzen AI "NPU3A" Revision

Phoronix - Wed, 10/29/2025 - 18:47
Yesterday the GitHub-hosted AMD XDNA driver code saw a new tagged release as version 202610.2.21.17. That itself wasn't too interesting but while diving into there is new yet-to-be-merged code for a new "NPU3A" revision to their NPU3 IP in Ryzen AI...

Apple Plans To Open-Source An LLVM Tool To Security Harden Large C++ Codebases

Phoronix - Wed, 10/29/2025 - 18:24
An engineer on Apple's static security tools team announced publicly that they have prototyped a tool to apply security hardening across entire C++ codebases. Ultimately their plan is to open-source and upstream this static analysis based tool into LLVM...

AMD Updates Zen 3 / Zen 4 CPU Microcode For Systems Lacking Microcode Signing Fix

Phoronix - Wed, 10/29/2025 - 18:11
AMD this week uploaded new Family 19h CPU microcode for Zen 3 and Zen 4 processors to the linux-firmware.git repoository that in turn is pulled by the Linux distributions for offering the latest firmware/microcode to users...

SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 Announced: "Enterprise Linux That Integrates Agentic AI"

Phoronix - Wed, 10/29/2025 - 17:55
SUSE today formally announced SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16. Given we are in the year 2025, SUSE is heavy on hyping up AI capabilities with SLES 16...

Arm Ethos NPU Accelerator Driver Expected To Be Merged For Linux 6.19

Phoronix - Wed, 10/29/2025 - 08:41
The upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel cycle is now expected to introduce the new "ethosu" accelerator driver for supporting the Arm Ethos U65/U85 neural processing unit IP...

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