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Sovereign Tech Agency Making 2026 Investments In systemd, PHP, Servo & More

Phoronix - Wed, 10/22/2025 - 23:37
Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency (nee Sovereign Tech Fund) is out with their latest newsletter where they outlined some new investments in various key open-source projects...

LLVM Lands Some Long Overdue Tuning Optimizations For AMD Zen 4

Phoronix - Wed, 10/22/2025 - 21:36
Merged today to the LLVM/Clang compiler codebase are some long overdue adjustments to the AMD Zen 4 "znver4" CPU model for more accurately assessing various latency timings and micro-ops. These values were initially copied over from the Zen 3 (znver3) target but never adjusted properly for Zen 4 until now when an independent contributor took to sorting it out...

Linux 6.18 Adding AWCC Profile Support For The Dell G15 5530

Phoronix - Wed, 10/22/2025 - 21:11
For those that happen to have the Dell G15 5530 laptop or considering this Intel Core i7 13650HX + NVIDIA GeForce RTX high-end laptop, the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel is set to have AWCC platform profile support for this model as a nice enhancement. In turn this patch should also be back-ported to future stable Linux kernel point releases...

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