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UPower as the abstraction layer for enumerating power devices on Linux systems and allowing various battery / power supply features is out with a new feature update...

UPower 1.90.4 Fixes Excessive Disk Writes & High CPU Usage  Phoronix

Dynebolic is a portable Linux distribution that can be used without installation  ZDNet

Linux vs Windows AES performance to be intriguing as Google boosts AMD and Intel  Neowin

Fortinet Discloses Vulnerabilities In FortiOS, FortiProxy, FortiClient Linux And Mac  CRN

Disclosed back in March 2022 was Branch History Injection (BHI) as a new Spectre vulnerability affecting Intel and Arm CPUs. Then in July of 2022 were patches for Intel working on hardware-based prevention for Spectre-BHI attacks. Now two years later the Linux kernel is seeing mitigations added for the native Branch History Injection vulnerability...

Linux Kernel Patched For Branch History Injection "BHI" Intel CPU Vulnerability  Phoronix

GNOME 46: Does It Make the Switch to Linux Worth It?  How-To Geek

Since SiFive ceased production of the HiFive Unleashed developer board we've been clamoring for a new and more powerful RISC-V developer board... Today SiFive announced the HiFive Premier P550 as a new developer system offering that will be available this summer...

Intel is using its Vision 2024 conference in Arizona today to announce the Gaudi 3 AI accelerator. With Gaudi 3 comes some rather bold AI claims from Intel: 50% on average better inference and 40% on average better power efficiency than the NVIDIA H100. All while costing "a fraction" of the NVIDIA H100. Gaudi 3 sounds quite promising and will be interesting to see how its adopted in the marketplace. In addition, Intel also is disclosing the new Xeon 6 branding for their upcoming server processors formerly codenamed Sierra Forest and Granite Rapids.

Run mainline Linux on $5 dollar hardware « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!  Adafruit Blog

Embedded World: fast 64bit quad core RISC-V development board for Linux  Electronics Weekly

Explicit GPU Synchronization for Xwayland Is Now Finally Merged into XOrg Server  9to5Linux

Similar to Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure spinning their own Arm-based processors for their data centers, Google Cloud today announced the Google Axion Processors that will be available in the future...

OpenSSL 3.3 is out today as the latest major feature release for this widely-used SSL library...

GParted Live Is Now Patched Against the XZ Backdoor, Powered by Linux Kernel 6.7  9to5Linux

Linux continues to be above 4% on the desktop  GamingOnLinux

In addition to working on NOVA as a Rust-based, GSP-focused NVIDIA open-source kernel graphics driver being developed as the eventual successor to the existing Nouveau DRM kernel driver, over in user-space Mesa developers have begun landing a portion of their Nouveau/NVK driver library code rewritten in Rust...

Explicit GPU Synchronization for Xwayland now merged  GamingOnLinux

EndeavourOS discontinues development of the ARM version of the Linux distribution  Notebookcheck.net