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TPM HMAC Encryption Being Pulled Back To x86_64 By Default For Linux 6.10

Phoronix - Tue, 05/28/2024 - 20:54
One of the new security features coming with Linux 6.10 is TPM bus encryption and integrity protection to fend off a wave of possible attacks against Trusted Platform Module recovery keys, TPM sniffing, etc. This functionality was merged for the Linux 6.10 merge window but is now being pulled back to x86_64-only by default where it's been sufficiently tested...

ASUS Linux Driver Adding Ability To Toggle CPU Cores, APU Memory Settings & dGPU TGP

Phoronix - Tue, 05/28/2024 - 18:38
The ASUS WMI platform driver for Linux that is predominantly used by ASUS laptops for enabling more functionality under Linux has a new patch series available that is enabling yet more features for the latest ASUS hardware on Linux...

openSUSE Aeon RC2 Released With Btrfs Compression Default, ZRAM & Tik

Phoronix - Tue, 05/28/2024 - 18:13
Nearly one year ago to the day the openSUSE project anounced MicroOS Desktop GNOME being renamed to openSUSE Aeon while openSUSE Desktop Plasma was taking the name openSUSE Kalpa...

Ubuntu 24.04 Now Available For The Milk-V Mars RISC-V Single Board Computer

Phoronix - Tue, 05/28/2024 - 17:58
Canonical announced this morning an optimized Ubuntu 24.04 image for the Milk-V Mars, a "credit card sized" RISC-V single board computer...

FreeBSD 14.1-RC1 Adds More Packages To The DVD Images - Including The Sway Compositor

Phoronix - Tue, 05/28/2024 - 05:27
FreeBSD 14.1-RC1 is now available for testing as this incremental update to FreeBSD 14 prepares for its stable release in June...

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