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NethSecurity: Open-source Linux firewall  Help Net Security

Arguably most exciting out of AMD's slew of Computex 2024 announcements is finally making official the Ryzen 9000 "Granite Ridge" processors built atop the new Zen 5 cores...

In addition to all of the AMD client-side news during Lisa Su's keynote at Computex 2024 (see AMD Ryzen 9000 Series and AMD's Ryzen AI 300 Series Mobile APUs), the AMD CEO also teased the upcoming 5th Gen EPYC processors. AMD 5th Gen EPYC "Turin" processors are still on the way for releasing in H2'2024...

In addition to announcing the AMD Ryzen 9000 series desktop processors powered by Zen 5, Lisa Su at Computex 2024 also announced the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series as the next-generation mobile processors powered by Zen 5 CPU cores while sporting RDNA 3.5 (also referred to as RDNA 3+ and RDNA3 refresh) integrated graphics and an XDNA 2 NPU...

AMD's Ryzen AI 300 Series Mobile APUs Should Be Interesting For Next-Gen Laptops  Phoronix

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