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Following the news from earlier around George Hotz' Tiny Corp raising new AMD GPU issues and calling for the MES firmware to be open-sourced followed by a positive message from AMD CEO Lisa Su, there's a new update on the matter following a meeting today between Tiny Corp and AMD...

EmuDeck 2.2 adds a new Pegasus Frontend, better Linux support, new emulators  GamingOnLinux

Linux Mint Innovates with Jargonaut App, Enhancing User Support Beyond IRC Capabilities  BNN Breaking

Intel today released their open-source OpenVINO 2024.0 toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inference across a range of hardware...

Forget Windows and macOS — Linux market share reaches a new high as users search for an alternative  TechRadar

NVIDIA R550 Linux Driver Release: Enhanced Support for GeForce GPUs  BNN Breaking

NVIDIA R550 Linux Driver's Open Kernel Modules Performing Well On GeForce GPUs  Phoronix

Linux Malware Targets Docker, Apache Hadoop, Redis and Confluence  Infosecurity Magazine

With the recent NVIDIA 550.54.14 Linux driver release the R550 series is now out as stable. One of the prominent changes with the NVIDIA R550 Linux driver is bringing the GeForce and workstation GPU support up to "CERTIFIED" quality when using NVIDIA's open kernel modules that are distributed as part of their driver package. Previously the open-source (out-of-tree) kernel modules were just certified for their data center GPUs while now they are basically acknowledging that they are in good shape too for GeForce and workstation products. In this article are some benchmarks of the open and proprietary kernel driver options of the NVIDIA R550 Linux driver.

Linux Malware Campaign Targets Misconfigured Cloud Servers  SecurityWeek

Linux Malware Campaign Targets Misconfigured Cloud Servers  SecurityWeek

Albion Online is finally getting a server for Europe  GamingOnLinux

Queued for introduction in the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel cycle is an FRU Memory Poison Manager "FMPM" developed by AMD that may later be adapted for other non-AMD platforms. The FRU Memory Poison Manager is working to persist information around known bad/faulty memory across reboots...

AMD Introducing FRU Memory Poison Manager In Linux 6.9  Phoronix

George Hotz with Tiny Corp that is working on Tinygrad and TinyBox for interesting developments in the open-source AI space has previously called out AMD over ROCm issues. Yesterday yielded new tweets by "the tiny corp" over AI training runs crashing with MES errors and then called for AMD open-sourcing the firmware to which AMD CEO Lisa Su has responded...

Five circumstances that may have led to the increase in Linux users  GIGAZINE（ギガジン）

The share of Linux exceeded 4% for the first time. The percentage of macOS users is decreasing  ITC

Android Linux Wi-Fi Vulnerabilities: Protect Devices Today!  Security Boulevard

Linux OS Market Soars to $7.07 Billion by 2023: Open Source Revolutionizes Tech  BNN Breaking

Out today is the big LLVM/Clang 18.1 release. Due to shifting to a new versioning scheme like GCC, today's LLVM 18.1 release is the first major stable release in the new series for what previously would have been called LLVM 18.0...