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"Indirector" Attack Disclosed For Intel Alder Lake & Raptor Lake CPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 07/03/2024 - 21:30
UC San Diego researchers have gone public with Indirector, high-precision branch target injection attacks on the indirect branch predictor. This UCSD security researchers found Indirector impacting recent Intel Alder Lake and Raptor Lake processors. Intel believes though that no further mitigations are required...

Updated GCC Patches For OpenMP Unified Shared Memory On AMD & NVIDIA GPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 07/03/2024 - 21:26
Two years after originally posting patches for working on Unified Shared Memory (USM) support for OpenMP with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), there is finally an updated patch-set for implementing this shared memory functionality with both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs...

Ubuntu Developing "crypto-config" For System-Wide Cryptography Configuration

Phoronix - Wed, 07/03/2024 - 20:52
A new Ubuntu utility seeing an uptick in development recently is crypto-config as a means of system-wide cryptography configuration...

Debian GNU/Hurd Adds Experimental 32-bit SMP Kernel & Rust Compiler

Phoronix - Wed, 07/03/2024 - 18:51
The GNU Hurd team has put out their Q2'2024 status update to outline recent activity around this micro-kernel platform...

RADV Driver Enables Device Generated Commands Task Shader Support

Phoronix - Wed, 07/03/2024 - 18:35
The RADV Radeon Vulkan driver in Mesa 24.2-devel has received support for task shaders with the NVIDIA Device Generated Commands "DGC" extension...

Microsoft Releases New Azure Linux 3.0 Preview

Phoronix - Wed, 07/03/2024 - 18:25
A new preview release is available of Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0 operating system...

How to Remove Systemd Services on Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 07/03/2024 - 14:53
The post How to Remove Systemd Services on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Systemd is a system and service manager for Linux operating systems, providing a standard process for controlling what services start

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How to Find the php.ini File in Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 07/03/2024 - 13:21
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In the world of Linux, the php.ini file is a crucial configuration file for the PHP programming language. This file

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Fedora 42 Looks To Make It Easier For Unprivileged System Flatpaks & Disk Management

Phoronix - Wed, 07/03/2024 - 05:09
In addition to proposed opt-in data metrics collection and the new web-based installer UI, some of the other early proposals for Fedora Linux 42 that isn't due out until April of 2025 is expanding the possibilities for unprivileged users...

Intel Xe Graphics Driver Squeezes In More Changes Ahead Of Linux 6.11

Phoronix - Wed, 07/03/2024 - 04:43
The Intel kernel graphics driver code being queued for the Linux 6.11 kernel already has added the initial Intel Battlemage PCI IDs, Battlemage display support, eDP Panel Replay support, Hardware Replay to help with hang debugging, SR-IOV preparations, and more Lunar Lake / Xe2 enablement. Today another unexpected last minute pull request was submitted of a bit more Xe driver code...

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