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Slopwatch: Linux FUD From Slopfarms, Blaming Linux for Microsoft Issues; Even WebProNews Has Become a Slopfarm (Googlebombing "Linux" With Slop Images and Fake/Plagiarised Text) lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Slopwatch: Linux FUD From Slopfarms, Blaming Linux for Microsoft Issues; Even WebProNews Has Become a Slopfarm (Googlebombing

The Web is really getting bad; it's also overwhelmed by fake material or plagiarised material, wherein the plagiarism gets disguised/hidden by LLM sausage factories
Roy Schestowitz

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SquashFS Tools 4.7 Released: "20% To More Than Ten Times Faster"

SquashFS-Tools 4.7 is out today as a big feature update to the user-space utilities for creating/modifying/extracting SquashFS read-only file-system images. SquashFS 4.7 delivers some big performance improvements and other nice enhancements...
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SquashFS Tools 4.7 Released: "20% To More Than Ten Times Faster"

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FriendlyElec NanoPi M5 Offers RK3576, Dual LAN, MIPI-CSI, and 6 TOPS NPU lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

FriendlyElec NanoPi M5 Offers RK3576, Dual LAN, MIPI-CSI, and 6 TOPS NPU

FriendlyElec has introduced the NanoPi M5, a compact single-board computer based on the Rockchip RK3576 processor. It features a 6 TOPS INT8 NPU, supports LPDDR4X or LPDDR5 memory, and offers UFS 2.
Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)

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Linux 6.16 Brings Many Laptop Driver Improvements, New Dasharo ACPI Driver

The wide assortment of x86 platform driver updates have been merged for the Linux 6.16 kernel due out as stable in July. As is usually the case, there are a number of Intel and AMD platform updates along with a wide assortment of driver improvements primarily for laptops from the major OEMs/ODMs...
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Linux 6.16 Brings Many Laptop Driver Improvements, New Dasharo ACPI Driver

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SMT Proves Very Advantageous For AMD Ryzen AI MAX Strix Halo Performance

While Intel opted against implementing Hyper Threading for their latest Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake processors, Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) still proves very effective on the AMD side. Even though the top-end AMD Ryzen AI MAX "Strix Halo" SoCs provide 16 Zen 5 cores, the presence of SMT for 32 threads still proves worthwhile from both a performance and power efficien…
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SMT Proves Very Advantageous For AMD Ryzen AI MAX Strix Halo Performance

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AMD Upstreams Efficient Malloc Support On GPUs For LLVM libc

AMD compiler engineer Joseph Huber is the one who ported DOOM to run on GPUs atop ROCm + LLVM libc as part of taking standard C/C++ code to run on GPUs and more recently has also been pursuing Flang/Fortran support atop GPUs. The latest in this ongoing quest is implementing efficient malloc support for memory allocation support on GPUs via the LLVM libc library...
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AMD Upstreams Efficient Malloc Support On GPUs For LLVM libc

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ByoWave Modular Proteus Controller Kit Support Lands In Linux 6.16

Valve engineer Pierre-Loup A. Griffais contributed ByoWave Proteus controller support to the Linux kernel. ByoWave Proteus are some modular controller designs that can be adapted based upon the needs of the gamer and even what title you may be playing at the moment. The triggers and buttons are all repositionable for a very customized controller experience. The only downside is the…
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ByoWave Modular Proteus Controller Kit Support Lands In Linux 6.16

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More Intel Panther Lake Graphics Device IDs Added To Open-Source Linux Driver

Intel's Linux graphics driver engineers continue working on enabling support for the Xe3 integrated graphics premiering with next-gen Core Ultra "Panther Lake" SoCs. Today a number of additional PCI device IDs have been merged to the Mesa 25.2 code to reflect the growing family...
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More Intel Panther Lake Graphics Device IDs Added To Open-Source Linux Driver

Intel's Linux graphics driver engineers continue working on enabling support for the Xe3 integrated graphics premiering with next-gen Core Ultra 'Panther Lake' SoCs
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Kexec HandOver "KHO" Merged For Linux 6.16

Kexec HandOver "KHO" was merged for the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel as part of all the memory management "MM" changes. Kexec HandOver is providing the basis for some nifty low-level features moving forward...
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Kexec HandOver "KHO" Merged For Linux 6.16

Kexec HandOver 'KHO' was merged for the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel as part of all the memory management 'MM' changes
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Open-Source TPDE Can Compile Code 10-20x Faster Than LLVM

Researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have announced TPDE as a fast and adaptable compiler back-end framework. The code is now open-source and they are talking up some very wild compile time improvements... Compiling code for x86_64 and AArch64 with TPDE can be ten to twenty times faster than using the LLVM Clang compiler...
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Open-Source TPDE Can Compile Code 10-20x Faster Than LLVM

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Power & Performance Tuning For The Framework 13 With AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series

In April we looked at the Framework 13 updated for the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series and its great out-of-the-box performance and nice power efficiency of Strix Point. Via ACPI platform profiles the power/performance mode can be tuned if desiring a longer battery life or preferring even greater performance. Today's article is looking at that power/performance impac…
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Power & Performance Tuning For The Framework 13 With AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series

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