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Microsoft Starts Preparing Its Open-Source DirectX Shader Compiler For "HLSL 202x"

Phoronix - Wed, 05/29/2024 - 02:33
Microsoft's open-source DirectX Shader Compiler that is open-source and derived from the LLVM/Clang compiler infrastructure is out with a significant new release as it begins preparing for "HLSL 202x" as a big leap for the High-Level Shader Language...

Chrome 127 Should Provide PipeWire Camera Capture Support

Phoronix - Wed, 05/29/2024 - 02:18
The Google Chrome/Chromium 127 web browser release should finally provide support for PipeWire camera capturing support!..

Crucial Pro DDR5-6000 32GB Memory Kit

Phoronix - Wed, 05/29/2024 - 02:05
Crucial last week announced the launch of their newest Crucial DDR5 Pro Memory: Overclocking (OC) Edition in white heatspreader form. Crucial recently sent over a pair of these 2 x 16GB Crucial Pro DDR5-6000 UDIMM memory kits that we've been putting through the paces with Intel Core i9 14900K and AMD Ryzen 9 7950X systems. These new Crucial Pro DIMMs have been working out very well and align with the great quality we've long enjoyed from Crucial/Micron.

Linux cpupower Tool Fix Coming For AMD Zen 5 CPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 05/29/2024 - 00:26
Sent out today as a fix for the Linux kernel's in-tree "cpupower" utility is properly handling P-State frequency reporting for upcoming AMD Zen 5 processors...

AlmaLinux 8.10 Released With Support Re-Enabled For Some Older Hardware

Phoronix - Tue, 05/28/2024 - 22:06
For those continuing to rely on the Enterprise Linux 8 series, AlmaLinux 8.10 has made its stable debut this morning as the newest version of this community-oriented operating system derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10...

TPM HMAC Encryption Being Pulled Back To x86_64 By Default For Linux 6.10

Phoronix - Tue, 05/28/2024 - 20:54
One of the new security features coming with Linux 6.10 is TPM bus encryption and integrity protection to fend off a wave of possible attacks against Trusted Platform Module recovery keys, TPM sniffing, etc. This functionality was merged for the Linux 6.10 merge window but is now being pulled back to x86_64-only by default where it's been sufficiently tested...

ASUS Linux Driver Adding Ability To Toggle CPU Cores, APU Memory Settings & dGPU TGP

Phoronix - Tue, 05/28/2024 - 18:38
The ASUS WMI platform driver for Linux that is predominantly used by ASUS laptops for enabling more functionality under Linux has a new patch series available that is enabling yet more features for the latest ASUS hardware on Linux...

openSUSE Aeon RC2 Released With Btrfs Compression Default, ZRAM & Tik

Phoronix - Tue, 05/28/2024 - 18:13
Nearly one year ago to the day the openSUSE project anounced MicroOS Desktop GNOME being renamed to openSUSE Aeon while openSUSE Desktop Plasma was taking the name openSUSE Kalpa...

Ubuntu 24.04 Now Available For The Milk-V Mars RISC-V Single Board Computer

Phoronix - Tue, 05/28/2024 - 17:58
Canonical announced this morning an optimized Ubuntu 24.04 image for the Milk-V Mars, a "credit card sized" RISC-V single board computer...

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