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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...

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