Open-source News

Back in September AMD released FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR3) and at the time they noted the open-source code would be made available "soon". As a nice Christmas present, the FSR3 source code is public as of today...

116 Malware Packages Found on PyPI Repository Infecting Windows and Linux Systems  The Hacker News

ONF Merges Market Leading Portfolio of Open Source Networking Projects into the Linux Foundation  Yahoo Finance

Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+ "Emerald Rapids" Linux Benchmarks Review  Phoronix

Following the 5th Gen Xeon Scalable "Emerald Rapids" overview, you are likely wondering about the performance claims made by Intel and how they shake up in independent testing as well as how Emerald Rapids competes against AMD EPYC Genoa(X) and Bergamo. If so this article is for you with the Phoronix benchmarks of the new flagship Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+ 64-core processors being tested in both single and dual socket modes.

In addition to announcing the Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" processors, Intel's AI Everywhere event in New York City also served as the launch point for 5th Gen Xeon Scalable "Emerald Rapids" server processors. Emerald Rapids is an incremental improvement over Sapphire Rapids with emboldened AI capabilities, energy efficiency improvements, and now up to 64 cores per socket.

While Intel's AI Everywhere event today was primarily focused on Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" laptop processors and 5th Gen Xeon Scalable "Emerald Rapids" processors, Intel also briefly announced their newest Xeon D and Xeon E series processors...

At Intel's AI Everywhere event they officially launched their new Core Ultra branded Meteor Lake processors that will begin appearing in new laptops. Intel Core Ultra aims to deliver their most power efficient client processors, deliver around twice the GPU performance of existing integrated graphics, and via the NPU feature more robust AI capabilities.

Proton Mail desktop app launches for Windows and Mac in beta; Linux version in the works  Neowin

To use the new Windows AI Studio tool, you must first install Linux. No, it's not a joke  Windows Central

There's been nothing new on the BUS1 front this year for capability-based IPC within the Linux kernel... In fact, the BUS1 out-of-tree kernel module has gone untouched for years now. But out of the BUS1 project has been Dbus-Broker for a high performance D-Bus message broker in user-space that doesn't break existing D-Bus compatibility. Out today is the newest version of that project closely tied to systemd developers...

How to find CPU information in Linux  Tom's Guide

The unofficial "ALHP" repositories for Arch Linux have begun offering an x86-64-v4 tuned repository for packages built against this current highest x86-64 micro-architecture feature level for the latest Intel and AMD processors with AVX-512 support...

Arch Linux ALHP Adds x86-64-v4 Repository For Packages Built With AVX-512  Phoronix

While there has been much talk this year about KDE Plasma 6.0 on the desktop as it gears up for release at the end of February, there's been less talk about the Plasma Mobile work for having the KDE stack on smartphones. But it turns out some progress is quietly being made on KDE Plasma Mobile for bringing it aligned with the "6" platform...

For those that were interested in the openSUSE logo contest, the voting wrapped up on Tuesday and the results of this logo contest for new openSUSE branding have been selected...

How to add users in Linux  Tom's Guide

What You Missed Last Month in NYC (According to Linux)  Papermag

Last week, Stefanie Chiras, Senior Vice President of Partner Ecosystem Success at Red Hat, was honored as the 2023 CRN Woman of the Year Award winner in the vendor and distributor category.Chiras’s win in the inaugural CRN Women of the Year Awards celebrates her remarkable commitment to driving positive change, leadership and channel success within the tech landscape through establishing and delivering a worldwide ecosystem strategy to support Red Hat's scale as a global entity. Over the past year, Chiras has guided the global ecosystem team to introduce new rules of engagement, bolster part

Linux Foundation advances open source vision with Generative AI Commons  VentureBeat