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Google Announces Lyra V2 Low Bit-Rate Voice Codec

Phoronix - Sat, 10/01/2022 - 04:11
Last year Google announced the Lyra voice codec for low bit-rates that combined with the open AV1 codec could lead to voice chats on 56kbps connections. Lyra makes use of machine learning and other techniques for extremely low bit-rate speech compression that can function at 3kbps. Google last year open-sourced the Lyra code while today they announced the availability of Lyra V2...

With AMD Zen 4, It's Surprisingly Not Worthwhile Disabling CPU Security Mitigations

Phoronix - Sat, 10/01/2022 - 01:30
While some Linux enthusiasts eagerly recommend users boot their systems with the "mitigations=off" kernel parameter for run-time disabling of various relevant CPU security mitigations for Spectre, Meltdown, L1TF, TAA, Retbleed, and friends, with the new AMD Ryzen 7000 "Zen 4" processors while still needing some software mitigations, it's surprisingly faster for the most part leaving the relevant mitigations enabled...

Linux 6.1 Change Aims To Auto-Detect Logitech HID++ High Resolution Scrolling Support

Phoronix - Sat, 10/01/2022 - 00:30
Currently Linux's Logitech HID++ driver "hid-logitech-hidpp" relies on a static list of device quirks for indicating which Logitech mice support high resolution scrolling. With the upcoming Linux 6.1 kernel, the plan is to change that list of devices/quirks and to automatically determine if a device supports high resolution scrolling...

AMD Sends Last Minute Fixes To Linux 6.0 For RDNA3 Graphics Cards

Phoronix - Fri, 09/30/2022 - 23:00
Linux 6.0 should be released as stable on Sunday unless Linus Torvalds has last minute reservations and decides to extend the cycle by an extra week. AMD has sent in a last minute set of patches for their AMDGPU kernel driver with Linux 6.0 for dealing with what appear to be the upcoming RDNA3 graphics cards...

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