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CIQ Previews a Security-Hardened Enterprise Linux  The New Stack

AMD recently allowed me some time with their AMD Accelerator Cloud (AAC) leveraging multiple Instinct MI300X accelerators. During this brief opportunity to try out their latest software advancements with the Instinct MI300X and the ROCm compute stack, one of the most striking takeaways was their documentation improvements compared to previous forays into ROCm+Instinct compute. In addition, AMD is now offering more robust container options for easier Instinct compute deployments with more software options available and being more regularly updated.

Fedora 42 Beta Is Now Available  WebProNews

Intel updated their AVX10 whitepaper and associated open-source compiler patches around this next Advanced Vector Extensions standard... While AVX10 had intended to allow either 256-bit or 512-bit modes depending upon processor capabilities, Intel has dropped the 256-bit-only approach and going for 512-bit everywhere. Thus it would seem to indicate that Intel E cores of the future will properly support AVX 512-bit operation!..

Linux 6.15 To Support The Airoha NPU - A RISC-V Network Processor Unit  Phoronix

Patches queued up this month into net-next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel merge window add support for the Airoha NPU... Not to be confused with the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that is all the rage these days for helping with AI, the Airoha NPU is a Network Processor Unit...

Tvrtko Ursulin of Igalia has been working on some optimizations to the DRM synchronization object "drm_syncobj" code for slightly more efficient use on the CPU side...

Ubuntu 25.10 plans to swap GNU coreutils for Rust  The Register

DRM Sync Object Optimizations Show Minor Benefit On The Steam Deck  Phoronix

ckb-next adds support for two more Corsair devices on Linux and fixes a major bug for multiple others  GamingOnLinux

Steam Beta improves download speed of Steam Client updates on Linux / Steam Deck and other fixes  GamingOnLinux

NVIDIA 570.133.07 driver released for Linux with bug fixes  GamingOnLinux

elementary OS 8.0.1 Released with Linux Kernel 6.11 from Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS  9to5Linux

AMD RX Vega 64 runs Indiana Jones and the Great Circle at well over 30FPS in Linux with RADV driver  HardForum

In addition to NVIDIA's GTC conference going on right now, they also released today an updated R570 Linux driver build...

NVIDIA 570.133.07 Linux Driver Released With A Few Fixes  Phoronix

Following Hector Martin stepping down from the Asahi Linux project that he founded for bringing Linux to Apple Silicon hardware, Asahi Lina announced today that she is pausing work on all of the Apple GPU driver development she had been pursuing for Asahi Linux with the open-source DRM kernel driver as well as Mesa contributions...

Asahi Lina Pausing Work On Apple GPU Linux Driver Development  Phoronix

Ubuntu developers decided a few months back to switch from IRC to Matrix for real-time communication needs. The newest fundamental shift being discussed by Ubuntu developers is shifting from mailing list discussions to Ubuntu Discourse for mailing list like written communications...

BLAKE3 as the cryptographic hashing function that is much faster than the likes of SHA-1/SHA-1 while being more secure than SHA-1 and MD5 is out with a new feature update. BLAKE3 v1.7 is now available for the official C and Rust code as the reference implementations to this cryptographic hash function...