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At Computex 2024, AMD confirmed the Instinct MI325X will be released in Q4'2024 as the successor to the MI300X accelerator. Next year will be the AMD Instinct MI350 series based on the new CFNA 4 architecture. AMD is committing to an annual Instinct accelerator roadmap moving forward as they further up their AI game...

While the AMD Ryzen 9000 series (Zen 5) details are arguably the most exciting aspect of Lisa Su's keynote at Computex 2024, over on the Radeon side is the announcement of the AMD Radeon PRO W7900 Dual Slot graphics card intended for compact workstations and Gen AI...

Percentage of Linux users on Steam exceeds 2%  GIGAZINE（ギガジン）

Red Hat is excited to share that it is collaborating with NetBox Labs to continue supporting streamlined integration between Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, the mission-critical automation solution for operating complex hybrid cloud workloads along with AI-enabled applications at scale, and NetBox, the most popular network source of truth. As part of this collaboration, the new Red Hat Ansible Certified Content Collection for NetBox is published at Ansible automation hub, offering customers greater confidence in their network automation journey, knowing they have NetBox Labs and Red Hat s

Linux 6.10-rc2 Released With An Initial Batch Of Fixes  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.0-rc2 with a busy week's worth of fixes...

Linux Emerging As a Haven for Those Weary of AI  WebProNews

Controversial free software developer Eric S Raymond has been spending a lot of time recently on the new Autodafe project as a means of free software projects from relying on Autotools. This "De-Autoconfiscation" has now led to the release of Autodafe 1.0 with the tool now being considered production-ready...

Steam gamers hurry to upgrade to 32GB RAM, and Linux breaks above 2% user share milestone, in latest survey  Tom's Hardware

Now past the Linux 6.10 merge window, this week brought an initial batch of drm-misc-next changes submitted to the Direct Rendering Manager subsystem's DRM-Next for queuing until the Linux 6.11 merge window opens up in July. The changes this week include a notable addition for the open-source NVIDIA (Nouveau) driver and some improvements for the Intel iVPU driver for their Neural Processing Unit (NPU)...

Linux 6.10-rc2 Will Fix Booting Intel Quark CPUs & Problems With Old AMD CPUs  Phoronix

Ahead of today's Linux 6.10-rc2 kerne weekly test release a few "x86/urgent" patches were submitted for addressing some fallout on Intel and AMD processors...

ASUS used Computex 2024 for announcing the ROG Ally X, the latest version of their handheld gaming console. The ASUS ROG Ally X continues to be powered by the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme SoC but now having more storage, faster RAM, a larger battery, updated controls, and other refinements...

Linux user share on Steam breaks 2% thanks to Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

When Steam on Linux debuted a decade ago it maintained around a 2% marketshare before receding and then beginning its long climb back up following the debut of Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux and then with the much anticipated Steam Deck handheld game console and the modern Arch-based SteamOS. Valve just published their May 2024 numbers for the Steam Survey and they indicate the Linux marketshare is finally back above 2%...

Linux Shoots Past The 2% Threshold For The Steam Survey, AMD CPU Use Breaks 75%  Phoronix

Use Linux? Kaspersky says it's time for you to get an antivirus, preferably its own  XDA Developers

Gates: Linux is no threat to Windows  ITPro Today

Ubuntu Cinnamon Makes Switching From Windows to Linux Easy, Here's How  How-To Geek

Kaspersky releases free tool that scans Linux for known threats  BleepingComputer