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Six New Stable Linux Kernel Updates For Intel DOWNFALL & AMD INCEPTION  Phoronix

First Look at Rhino Linux, a Rolling-Release Distro Based on Ubuntu and Xfce  9to5Linux

NVIDIA today rolled out a new stable point release in their R535 series for Linux users to provide a handful of bug fixes...

NVIDIA 535.98 Linux Driver Released With Several Fixes  Phoronix

In addition to the Linux kernel patches for GDS/Downfall for reporting the mitigated state and handling around Intel's latest speculative execution vulnerability, the updated CPU microcode has now been published on GitHub. In addition to having the Downfall mitigations for Skylake through Icelake/Tigerlake, there are also other security updates and functional issues resolved by this Intel 20230808 CPU microcode release...

83 of the top 100 most played Steam games work on Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

This Patch Tuesday brings a new and potentially painful processor speculative execution vulnerability... Downfall, or as Intel prefers to call it is GDS: Gather Data Sampling. GDS/Downfall affects the gather instruction with AVX2 and AVX-512 enabled processors. At least the latest-generation Intel CPUs are not affected but Tigerlake / Ice Lake back to Skylake is confirmed to be impacted. There is microcode mitigation available but it will be costly for AVX2/AVX-512 workloads with GATHER instructions in hot code-paths and thus widespread software exposure particularly for HPC and other compute-intensive workloads that have relied on AVX2/AVX-512 for better performance.

Linux 6.5 Patches Merged For Intel GDS/DOWNFALL, AMD ...  Phoronix

There used to be a time when Patch Tuesday wasn't so busy in the Linux space, but certainly not this month... Linus Torvalds just pushed the kernel code changes around AMD INCEPTION and Intel DOWNFALL as well as other security patches...

Rhino Linux is a rolling release, Ubuntu-based Linux distro with PC, PinePhone, and PineTab support  Liliputing

AMD has kicked off a busy Patch Tuesday by disclosing INCEPTION, a new speculative side channel attack affecting Zen 3 and Zen 4 processors...

Go 1.21 is now available as the latest version of this popular programming language...

The Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express Consortium today published the UCe 1.1 specification for helping to standardize die-to-die connectivity with multi-die SoCs...

Rhino Linux Makes Rolling-Release Ubuntu Reality  OMG! Ubuntu!

Rhino Linux Delivers an Ubuntu-Based Rolling Release  OMG! Ubuntu!

The GNOME 45 Beta release is imminent and this morning the "45.beta" milestones were tagged for the GNOME Shell and Mutter components...

AMD Begins Resolving “fTPM” Bugs on Linux, Disables Annoying “RNG”  Wccftech

How to Change the Owner of a Directory in Linux  Beebom

Last month Intel announced APX and AVX10 as the successor to AVX-512 that will see both P and E cores in the future supporting this updated Advanced Vector Extensions implementation. Delightfully, today Intel engineers began posting GCC compiler patches for beginning to enable AVX10 support...

Those running Intel Arc Graphics on Linux can now enjoy the Hogwarts Legacy game under Valve's Steam Play. Intel engineers were able to get this open-world action RPG game running on their open-source Vulkan driver by hiding the fact that Intel graphics were rendering this game...