AUR Malware Packages Exploit: Critical Security Flaws Exposed lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Open-Source & Rust-Written Burn MATMUL Kernels Can Compete With NVIDIA's CUDA/cuBLAS lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Debian 13.0 "Trixie" Planning For Release On August 9

The Debian release team today shared their final release plans for Debian 13 "Trixie" that aims to be out as stable in less than one month's time...
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Rust-Written NOVA Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Being Further Built Out In Linux 6.17

For Linux 6.17 in addition to Intel enabling SR-IOV for Battlemage graphics cards and many other big Intel Xe kernel graphics cards and then more AMD graphics driver features too, the NOVA driver for modern open-source NVIDIA driver support is continuing to be further built out in this next kernel version...
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Open-Source & Rust-Written Burn MATMUL Kernels Can Compete With NVIDIA's CUDA/cuBLAS

The open-source and Rust-based Burn deep learning framework developed by Tracel AI shared that their open-source matrix multiplication kernel performance can compete with and even outperform the NVIDIA CUDA cuBLAS performance. Plus Burn isn't limited to just NVIDIA GPUs but can work on most hardware/drivers, including a Vulkan back-end...
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KDE Plasma 6.5 Brings Rounded Bottom Corners For Windows By Default

KDE Plasma 6.5 is introducing a change that has been "years in the wanting" and that is rounded bottom corners for windows...
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Luckfox Lyra Pi with Core3506 SoC Provides Optional 4G and PoE in a Raspberry Pi-Sized Form Factor lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Arch Linux AUR Packages For Firefox & Other Browsers Removed For Containing Malware

While the Arch Linux AUR repository can be popular for fetching some packages not found in Arch Linux proper, it's important to keep in mind that AUR stands for the Arch User Repository. These user packages aren't always the best and rarely can be done with malicious intent as shown this week with an advisory over several malicious browser packages being b…
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Intel Announces It's Shutting Down Clear Linux

The most depressing news of the week: Intel is ending their performance-optimized Clear Linux distribution. Over the past decade the Clear Linux operating system has shown what's possible with out-of-the-box performance on x86_64 hardware... Not just for Intel platforms but even showing extremely great performance results on AMD x86_64 too. But with the cost-cutting going on at Intel, Clear Linu…
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AMD Announces ROCm-LS, hipCIM As Port Of NVIDIA's cuCIM

Back in May was the announcement by AMD of ROCm-DS as a new toolkit geared for real-world data science problems with various helpers to accelerate data processing on Instinct accelerators. AMD today is complementing ROCm-DS by announcing ROCm-LS and hipCIM...
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Intel Compute Runtime 25.27.34303.5 Brings Support For Wildcat Lake & BMG G31

Intel is out today with its monthly feature update to the Compute Runtime as their open-source GPU compute stack providing Level Zero and OpenCL API support on Windows and Linux systems. This month there is new hardware support, more performance optimizations, and some new features...
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Imagination Kernel Graphics Driver Being Extended To AM62P/AM67A/J722S SoCs

The open-source and upstream Imagination Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics driver for supporting their modern graphics IP and pairing with their PowerVR Vulkan driver within Mesa is now being extended to work on the TI AM62P, AM67A, and J722S SoCs...
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LLVM 21.1-rc1 Released For Testing: Better RISC-V Support, AMD GFX1250 & NVIDIA GB10 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Servo Web Engine Further Tuning Performance, Screen Reader & Other New Features

The Servo open-source web layout engine continues advancing with its demo Servoshell and continued work around making it suitable for embedding into other software. The Servo project this morning published their latest monthly status update to inform the community what they have been up to the past several weeks...
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Intel QATlib 25.08 Brings Hugepages Support & Other Improvements

Intel engineers yesterday released QATlib 25.08 as the first new update in nearly one year for this QuickAssist Technology library. Intel QuickAssist allows hardware-accelerated offloading of various security authentication and compression operations from the CPU onto dedicated accelerator IP found in recent Xeon processors. Intel's QATlib is the open-source library for enabling th…
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AMD Bringing SmartMux Support To Linux 6.17 For Better Hybrid GPU Laptop Support

For the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle AMD already queued fixes for GPU compute on some older AMD hardware, improved debugging support for AMDGPU, and other enhancements. Sent out today was a final batch of feature changes for AMDGPU/AMDKFD expected for the upcoming Linux 6.17 merge window. Most notable is AMD SmartMux support coming to Linux...
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