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It would be great if we could flip a switch on the networks that currently consume about 3% of the world's power and emit roughly 2% of the world's greenhouse gasses to make them more sustainable. And I’m sure any telecommunications service provider would want to reduce their network operating costs by being more energy efficient. But achieving sustainability goals is a complex and layered problem, and one that requires an entire ecosystem to work together to reduce the telecommunication industry’s carbon dioxide footprint. Many service providers are looking to advanced data analytics powe

The industrial ecosystem is advancing at an incredible pace – rapid technology development and adoption cycles present massive opportunities for greater operational efficiency and productivity. But to pull this off, manufacturers need advanced connectivity that neither on-site cabling or ethernet can provide. Enter private 5G. Private 5G systems offer unified network function and application connectivity closer to end users, thanks to virtualized and cloud-native radio access networks (RAN) and 5G core (5GC) implementations linked by open standards-based interfaces. Private 5G can deliver th

Notebook for prison inmates bought on eBay — 'Justice Tech Solutions Securebook' is locked down but has freedoom ...  Tom's Hardware

The open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver within Mesa 24.1-devel has seen improvements made for systems capable of Resizable BAR "ReBAR" support...

Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Lands Improvements For ReBAR  Phoronix

GNOME developers remain quite busy with various new initiatives thanks to their funding from their Sovereign Tech Fund. There's some screencasting enhancements still on deck for GNOME 46, various GNOME accessibility improvements forthcoming, and also ongoing work around systemd-homed home directory encryption support...

Sway 1.9 Elevates Linux Desktop Experience with Major Wayland Compositor Update  BNN Breaking

GPU‐punishing FurMark 2 released with cross-platform support for Windows, Linux - macOS and Raspberry Pi support ...  Tom's Hardware

Samba Network Shares for RHEL-Based Linux Distributions  The New Stack

Sent in this morning via the "x86/urgent" pull request ahead of the Linux 6.8-rc6 kernel later today is a set of patches from Intel to ensure clearing of CPU buffers using the VERW instruction happens at the latest possible point in the return-to-userspace code path. This is being done to better protect against CPU bugs like Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS)...

Linux 6.8 x86/urgent Update Beefs Up Protection Against Side Channel CPU Bugs  Phoronix

Kent Overstreet on Saturday evening posted a set of 21 patches to overhaul the disk accounting code for the Bcachefs file-system. This change does break compatibility with the existing disk accounting on-disk format and thus will require an upgrade when moving to the new version, which may land for Linux v6.9...

Microsoft's in-house CBL-Mariner Linux distribution has routinely seen weekly-ish updates to this open-source code used within Azure, WSL, and other areas of the Redmond company. But it's been one month since the prior CBL-Mariner 2.0 release... That changed Saturday night with a shiny new release...

What Is X86-64-v3?  Hackaday

GLFW 3.4 has been released as this open-source, multi-platform library used for OpenGL / OpenGL ES / Vulkan development via a platform-independent API. GLFW 3.4 continues supporting Linux, macOS, Windows, and other platforms for offering this nice abstracted solution around graphics and input...

Kubuntu Focus M2: Linux laptop appears in new version with greater performance capabilties, also with GeForce RTX ...  Notebookcheck.net

CachyOS 240224 was released today for this Arch Linux derived desktop distribution that focuses on being a "blazingly fast and customizable Linux distribution" with a variety of desktop options, employing LTO and other optimizations for packages, optional x86-64-v3 binaries, and other tuning to make for a speedy out-of-the-box Linux experience...

CachyOS Moves To Glibc 2.39 & Other Package Upgrades For February  Phoronix

Sway 1.9 has been released as the newest feature release of this i3-inspired Wayland compositor built atop the closely-aligned wlroots Wayland compositor library...

Git maintainer Junio Hamano on Friday released Git 2.44 as the newest update to this leading open-source distributed revision control system...