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Intel today as part of their "Patch Tuesday" released new CPU microcode for recent generation Core and Xeon processors. Two security updates were made along with fixing a handful of functional issues...

Intel CPU Microcode 20240910 Fixes Two Security Issues, Various Functional Issues  Phoronix

Juno Tab 3 Linux Tablet Launches at $699 with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS  9to5Linux

Juno Tab 3 Linux Tablet Launches at $699 with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS  9to5Linux

Parallels Desktop 20 Makes It Easy to Run Windows or Linux on Your Mac  Review Geek

Parallels Desktop 20 Makes It Easy to Run Windows or Linux on Your Mac  How-To Geek

A patch merged yesterday to the GNU C Library (glibc) codebase can help the memset() function's performance by 24% as measured on an Arm Neoverse-N1 core...

With the upcoming Linux 6.12 kernel the Intel graphics driver will finally be able to report GPU fan speeds. Another long sought feature is also on the way for this open-source Linux driver: GPU package temperature reporting for Intel discrete GPUs...

Intel Linux Graphics Driver To Finally Expose GPU Package Temperature  Phoronix

AlmaLinux to further distinguish itself from other RHEL-based Linux distributions has announced a Certification Special Interest Group (SIG) and out of that is coming a AlmaLinux Hardware Certification Program...

AlmaLinux Announces Certification SIG, Hardware Certification Program  Phoronix

We know 'Linux is a cancer' but could CentOS chaos spell opportunity for Microsoft?  The Register

While OpenJDK Java is available via the Ubuntu package archive and the go-to JVM on Ubuntu Linux, Canonical is working to package up Oracle's GraalVM as another option for enhancing the Java stack on Ubuntu...

Why I Keep Coming Back to Fedora Workstation  How-To Geek

Stratus Releases Linux-based Virtualization for ftServer Platforms  StreetInsider.com

Stratus Releases Linux-based Virtualization for ftServer Platforms  Marketscreener.com

Stratus Releases Linux-based Virtualization for ftServer Platforms  Business Wire

Stratus Releases Linux-based Virtualization for ftServer Platforms  Yahoo Finance

Stratus Releases Linux-based Virtualization for ftServer Platforms  StockTitan

Intel today released a new version of QATlib, the QuickAssist Technology library for enjoying hardware-accelerated offloading of security, authentication, and compression needs. Recent Intel Xeon CPUs with built-in QAT accelerators stand to benefit a lot from the new QATlib 24.09 release...