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Merged yesterday to the Linux 6.19 Git codebase was the "core/uaccess" pull that introduces new scoped user-mode access with auto-cleanup functionality. This can reduce the number of speculation barriers encountered when needing to access user-mode memory and thereby avoiding some of the performance penalties incurred by speculation barriers...

Google engineer Eric Biggers who is known for his many Linux crypto subsystem performance optimizations has seen his latest pull requests land in Linux 6.19. Notable among them are some AES-GCM optimizations benefiting AMD Zen 3 processors and separately AVX-512 processors also benefit too from this latest round of optimization work...

Latest Nvidia Linux driver drops support for some older GTX graphics cards, including everyone's favorite, 1080 Ti  PC Guide

Fedora Linux 44 will get improved NTSYNC enabling for Proton / Wine  GamingOnLinux

Valve is developing an Android compatibility layer for Linux, it's called Lepton  gHacks Technology News

Red Hat's Peter Hutterer announced the release today of xkbcomp 1.5, the CLI utility used for compiling X Keyboard Extension (XBD) keyboard descriptions for the X.Org Server. Driving this new xkbcomp release are fixes for four security issues...

Version 6.18 of the Linux kernel is here  theregister.com

Linux usage hits an all-time high in Steam Hardware Survey—and AMD processors continue their march against Intel  Tom's Hardware

NVIDIA Deprecates GeForce GTX 900-Series "Maxwell" and GTX 10-Series "Pascal" With Linux 590 Driver  TechPowerUp

BPFDoor and Symbiote Rootkits Attacking Linux Systems Exploiting eBPF Filters  CybersecurityNews

NVIDIA 590 Linux drivers drop GeForce GTX 900 “Maxwell” and GTX 10 “Pascal” support  VideoCardz.com

[Beta] Linux Mint 22.3 Zena to be released soon  gHacks Technology News

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BPFDoor and Symbiote: Advanced eBPF-Based Rootkits Target Linux Systems  GBHackers News

Linus Torvalds Defends Windows' Blue Screen of Death  It's FOSS

Tyr – A Rust GPU driver for Arm Mali GPUs  CNX Software

Linux achieves the highest user count it has ever reached on Steam — again  XDA

In addition to new AMD CPU features being merged today for Linux 6.19, there are also some new Intel CPU features that hit Linux Git today that are worth highlighting...

Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) is a fully managed application platform that offers a more seamless experience for building, deploying, and scaling applications. For machine learning (ML) workloads, ROSA now supports On-Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCR) and Capacity Blocks for ML, allowing cloud architects and platform administrators to strategically utilize their existing AWS purchases to help deliver uninterrupted access to essential compute infrastructure. Today, ROSA is available in over 30 regions and supports over 600 instance types, allowing customers to run diverse workloads

Linus Torvalds just merged another set of pull requests to Git for the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel. With the latest round of merges, there are two separate AMD changes worth highlighting...