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Mozilla's Latest Plan To Make Money Is Mozilla Monitor Plus

Phoronix - Tue, 02/06/2024 - 23:30
Mozilla's latest non-browser foray and attempt at generating additional revenue is Mozilla Monitor Plus, what formerly was known as the free service Firefox Monitor for monitoring of exposed personal information such as email addresses as part of security breaches to various web services...

AMD Announces Embedded+ Architecture For Ryzen Paired With Xilinx IP

Phoronix - Tue, 02/06/2024 - 22:00
With Ryzen AI found in the very newest Ryzen processors, AMD began making use of IP from their acquisition of Xilinx. Today though AMD is announcing their Embedded+ Architecture that is taking the marriage of AMD and Xilinx tech much further by combining the wares onto a single PCB for new embedded applications as an integrated compute platform.

The 2024 State Of Open-Source AMD Firmware

Phoronix - Tue, 02/06/2024 - 21:40
Last year at FOSDEM 2023 there was a presentation on the state of AMD open-source firmware and since then a lot has changed from the AMD openSIL announcement to new platforms being in the process of being enabled. At FOSDEM 2024 this past weekend in Brussels was a fresh look at the current state of AMD open-source firmware...

Eclipse OpenJ9 0.43 Released With New Options, Updated Compilers For Release Binaries

Phoronix - Tue, 02/06/2024 - 20:02
A new release of Eclipse OpenJ9 is now available, the high-performance Java Virtual Machine formerly developed by IBM as the J9 VM...

Amazon Proposes Pkernfs For Better Handling Hypervisor Live Updates

Phoronix - Tue, 02/06/2024 - 19:44
Stemming from work done at Amazon Web Services (AWS) for better handling hypervisor live updates, a "request for comments" patch series was sent out on the Linux kernel mailing list for Pkernfs. The Pkernfs proposal was first detailed publicly by AWS last year and is for persisting guest memory and kernel/device state safely across Kexec...

Rust-Written Stateless Codec Drivers Make A Lot Of Sense

Phoronix - Tue, 02/06/2024 - 19:35
When it comes to making use of the Rust programming language within the Linux kernel, one of the areas where it makes a lot of sense is for the video codec drivers given the amount of unknown/untrusted data submitted by user-space for video processing and it being a wide attack surface for bad actors. With the memory safety features of Rust this can be a big benefit to such drivers and Collabora is currently experimenting with a virtual codec driver Rust implementation to prove the concept...

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