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Firefox 126 Available - Adds "Linux" To The Android User Agent String

Phoronix - Mon, 05/13/2024 - 22:56
Mozilla has pushed out its release images of the Firefox 126 web browser ahead of its official debut on Tuesday...

Linux 6.10 Makes AES-XTS Disk/File Encryption Much Faster For Modern Intel/AMD CPUs

Phoronix - Mon, 05/13/2024 - 21:46
The work written about one month ago on Phoronix for much faster AES-XTS on modern Intel/AMD CPUs for speeding up disk and file encryption by as much as 155% with AMD Zen 4 CPUs has been submitted for Linux 6.10! As expected, this work providing new AES-XTS implementations for modern x86_64 processors is going into Linux 6.10 as part of the crypto subsystem updates...

Linux Foundation Launches The High Performance Software Foundation

Phoronix - Mon, 05/13/2024 - 18:40
Back at Supercomputing 23, the Linux Foundation announced their intent on forming the High Performance Software Foundation for helping to advance open-source software for high performance computing (HPC). The Linux Foundation is now using ISC 24 this week in Hamburg, Germany for announcing that the High Performance Software Foundation has launched...

x32 Shadow Stacks, Locking Optimizations, Intel VFM & Other x86 Changes For Linux 6.10

Phoronix - Mon, 05/13/2024 - 18:33
Today marks the first official day of the Linux 6.10 merge window. Among the horde of pull requests sent out today were the numerous x86 pull requests of material that's been queuing up in TIP.git of which there are many changes benefiting both Intel and AMD...

GNU Linux-libre 6.9 Released: More Deblobbing, Fixes Intel Graphics On GuC-Less Systems

Phoronix - Mon, 05/13/2024 - 17:58
Building off last night's release of Linux 6.9 stable, GNU Linux-libre 6.9-gnu has debuted as this kernel downstream that works on stripping out support for any drivers/hardware depending upon closed-source firmware/microcode and other alterations in the name of software freedom...

Intel-Powered Aurora Supercomputer Breaks The Exascale Barrier

Phoronix - Mon, 05/13/2024 - 17:00
Intel, HPE, and Argonne National Laboratory have announced at ISC High Performance 2024 that the Aurora Supercomputer has broken the Excascale barrier and is now the fastest AI supercomputer currently in existence...

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