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The Cloud Outgrows Linux, And Sparks A New Operating System  The Next Platform

Intel has released new CPU microcode for addressing five security issues and additionally there is newly-merged Linux kernel code for mitigating the new Register File Data Sampling "RFDS" micro-architectural vulnerability affecting Atom / E cores...

New Intel CPU Microcode & "RFDS" Linux Kernel Patch For New Security Vulnerabilities  Phoronix

KDE Plasma 6.0.2 Improves Night Color, Discover, Plasma Wayland, and More  9to5Linux

Sabrent launches NT-25GA USB-C to 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet (2.5GbE) adapter for Windows, macOS and Linux  BetaNews

AMD Adds Performance Monitoring Patches For Zen 5 CPU Enablement on Linux  Wccftech

With the upgraded Linux kernel, compiler, and other software upgrades with next month's Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, those using recent AMD EPYC server processors like the 4th Gen EPYC Genoa(X) / Bergamo / Siena processors stand to benefit from greater performance over the current Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS To Help Further Boost AMD EPYC 9004 Series Performance  Phoronix

The recently covered overhaul of the x86 CPU topology code to clean-up quite a code mess has been merged for Linux 6.9. Among other benefits, this improved topology code properly accounts for modern Intel Core hybrid systems with a mix of P and HT-less E cores...

Linux 6.9 Lands Reworked Topology Code For Better Hybrid CPU Support  Phoronix

AWS ParallelCluster 3.9 with support for RHEL 9, Rocky Linux 9 and dynamic cluster capacity updates  AWS Blog

Is Linux Really More Secure than Windows? | PIA VPN  Privacy News Online

The big set of networking subsystem updates have been sent in for the Linux 6.9 merge window including a number of new wired and wireless devices being supported as well as a number of core networking improvements and optimizations...

AdaptiveCpp 24.02 is out this week as the newest version of this SYCL compiler formerly known as hypSYCL and Open SYCL. AdaptiveCpp supports C++-based heterogeneous programming models targeting all major CPU and GPU vendors thanks to SYCL and C++ standard parallelism...

This open source Nvidia driver update just boosted Linux game support  PCGamesN

This open source Nvidia driver update just boosted Linux game support  PCGamesN

Latest Steam Client Beta fixes Linux and Steam Deck issues, tweaks screenshots  GamingOnLinux

An interesting anecdote was mentioned as part of the x86/misc changes queued for the Linux 6.9 kernel: on some unnamed AMD systems, NMI debug messages were too excessive that they actually slowed down the systems...

Too Many Debug Messages Were Reportedly Slowing Down Some AMD Linux Systems  Phoronix

Nearly one year ago Intel published the X86S specification (formerly stylized as "X86-S") for simplifying the Intel architecture by removing support for 16-bit and 32-bit operating systems. X86S is a big step forward with dropping legacy mode, 5-level paging improvements, and other modernization improvements for x86_64. With the Linux 6.9 kernel more x86S bits are in place for this ongoing effort...