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KDE Gear 24.08 Brings Many App Enhancements & New Features

Phoronix - Fri, 08/23/2024 - 00:16
KDE Gear 24.08 has been released for this collection of KDE applications that pair with the Plasma desktop...

Ubuntu Will Be Skipping Non-Critical Linux Kernel Updates For September

Phoronix - Thu, 08/22/2024 - 20:37
With the exception of critical security issues/bugs, Canonical will be skipping over shipping stable release updates for the Linux kernel in Ubuntu until early October...

Mozilla Developing Whisperfile For Local Audio-To-Text Translation

Phoronix - Thu, 08/22/2024 - 18:59
The Mozilla Ocho group leads "innovation and experiments" at Mozilla. Following all of their work on Llamafile for easily distributing large language models as a single file that can be easily executed across different hardware/software, their newest effort is Whisperfile for easy audio-to-text translations...

Intel Further Speeds Up strnlen() In The GNU C Library For Recent Intel/AMD CPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 08/22/2024 - 18:26
Intel software engineers are responsible for many of the great x86_64-related optimizations to the GNU C Library "glibc" over the years. While they've extensively tuned many Glibc functions for achieving peak performance on their modern CPUs, it's a never-ending quest. Merged this week was another optimization to strnlen(), the function for determining the number of bytes in a fixed-size string...

Fwupd 1.9.24 Adds Support For More Mediatek & Parade Tech Devices

Phoronix - Thu, 08/22/2024 - 18:20
While celebrating the 9th birthday of the Linux Vendor Firmware Service, LVFS/Fwupd lead developer Richard Hughes has released a new version of the Fwupd firmware updating utility...

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