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Fedora 40 is planning to provide more hardened system security by leveraging some high level security features provided by systemd...

Vivaldi releases end-of-year versions for Windows, macOS and Linux  iTWire

Linux Kernel of the Beast 6.6.6 exorcised by angelic 6.6.7 update  The Register

Optimizing Embedded System Functionality with the Right OS  Embedded Computing Design

Microsoft embraces its inner penguin with Linux-powered Windows AI Studio  The Register

Microsoft previews Linux-powered Windows AI Studio  The Register

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

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...