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AMD Posts Linux Patches For New Secure AVIC Guest Feature

Phoronix - Sat, 09/14/2024 - 02:46
AMD engineers today posted the first "request for comments" patches in enabling support for Secure AVIC guest handling as a new hardware feature with upcoming processors...

Intel Graphics Compiler Can Now Be Built For RISC-V

Phoronix - Sat, 09/14/2024 - 01:54
The Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) that is used on Windows as a shader compiler back-end and both for Windows/Linux as part of their OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero compute stack can now be compiled for RISC-V 64-bit...

Haiku R1 Beta 5 Released With Dark Mode Theme & Support For USB Audio

Phoronix - Sat, 09/14/2024 - 01:11
The BeOS-inspired Haiku OS is out today with its fifth beta release as it works toward the long-awaited Haiku R1 stable release...

GNOME Foundation Accepting Applications For New Executive Director

Phoronix - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 22:00
Following the GNOME Foundation Executive Director leaving after less than one year, the GNOME Foundation has formally begun their search for a new executive director...

Ubuntu 24.10 ARM64 Installer Supports The Snapdragon-Powered Lenovo ThinkPad X13s

Phoronix - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 21:15
While not quite as exciting as the latest ARM64 laptops sporting the new Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 series SoCs, the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s laptop using the older Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 is now available to boot and install using the generic ARM64 images of the upcoming Ubuntu 24.10...

AMD Engineer Proposes "Attack Vector Controls" To Rethink CPU Security Mitigation Handling

Phoronix - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 19:16
David Kaplan who is a Senior Fellow at AMD focused on security technologies has published an initial set of Linux kernel patches for "Attack Vector Controls" in rethinking the CPU security mitigation handling. The proposed Attack Vector Controls makes it easier to manage desired security mitigations to have enabled/disabled based upon intent of the system rather than having to be knowledgeable about individual CPU security vulnerabilities and the various tuning knobs...

Ruffle Continues Letting Adobe Flash Player Support Live On In Open-Source

Phoronix - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 18:50
Most of you have fortunately not had to think about Adobe Flash support in years, but for those still having some old assets in Adobe Flash/SWF format or wanting to relive some old games/entertainment based in Flash, the open-source Ruffle project remains one of the leading contenders for dealing with Flash in 2024 and beyond. Ruffle is a Rust-based emulator for Adobe Flash that continues to be actively developed and supporting more features...

LoongArch KVM To Speed-Up ARM/x86 Binary Translation

Phoronix - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 18:39
The LoongArch changes for the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) have been submitted ahead of the Linux 6.12 merge window opening. For enhancing KVM virtualization on these Chinese CPUs is enabling Loongson Binary Translation (LBT) for accelerating ARM/x86 binary translation...

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