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Mesa 25.2 RADV Merges Ray-Tracing Improvements For Radeon RX 9070 Series / RDNA4

Merged for the Mesa 25.2 release next quarter are some further enhancements to the Vulkan ray-tracing support with the RADV open-source driver for AMD's new RDNA4 graphics cards...
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Mesa 25.2 RADV Merges Ray-Tracing Improvements For Radeon RX 9070 Series / RDNA4

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NAK Compiler For Mesa's NVK Driver Adds Support For More NVIDIA Kepler GPUs

The Rust-written NAK shader compiler used by Mesa's NVK open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs has merged support for SM32 as the "KeplerB" / Kepler 2.0 graphics processors...
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NAK Compiler For Mesa's NVK Driver Adds Support For More NVIDIA Kepler GPUs

The Rust-written NAK shader compiler used by Mesa's NVK open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs has merged support for SM32 as the 'KeplerB' / Kepler 2.0 graphics processors.
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AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux Benchmarks: Outright Incredible Performance lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux Benchmarks: Outright Incredible Performance Review

We finally have AMD's Strix Halo in the lab for benchmarking! HP has kindly sent over their ZBook Ultra 14-inch G1a mobile workstation: it's a beast being powered by the top-end AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 SoC with 16 cores / 32 threads and powerful in…
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Intel Releases Updated CPU Microcode Due To "Training Solo"

Following Monday's public disclosure of the "Training Solo" security disclosure for this set of issues affecting multiple generations of Intel processors, new Intel CPU microcode has been released for Linux users as part of the mitigation process...
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Intel Releases Updated CPU Microcode Due To "Training Solo"

Following Monday's public disclosure of the 'Training Solo' security disclosure for this set of issues affecting multiple generations of Intel processors, new Intel CPU microcode has been released for Linux users as part of the mitigation process.
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Armbian Updates Add OMV Support, Boot Improvements, and Rockchip Optimizations lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Armbian Updates Add OMV Support, Boot Improvements, and Rockchip Optimizations Armbian Updates Add OMV Support, Boot Improvements, and Rockchip Optimizations

The Armbian development team has rolled out a series of notable updates this week, introducing enhancements across software usability, bootloader standardization, and hardware compatibility.
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Raspberry Pi OS Update Finalizes Bookworm-Based Release Ahead of Debian Trixie lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Raspberry Pi OS Update Finalizes Bookworm-Based Release Ahead of Debian Trixie

A new version of Raspberry Pi OS is now available, marking what is likely the final release based on Debian Bookworm before the upcoming transition to Debian Trixie later this year.
Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)

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Training Solo: New Set Of Serious Security Vulnerabilities Exposed For Intel & Arm CPUs

The VUSec security researchers are at it again... The embargo is now lifted on another set of of security vulnerabilities affecting Intel processors as well as Arm core designs. This new vulnerability is dubbed Training Solo...
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Training Solo: New Set Of Serious Security Vulnerabilities Exposed For Intel & Arm CPUs

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Linux 6.15 Fix Merged For Sizable Performance Regression On Newer AMD CPUs lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Linux 6.15 Fix Merged For Sizable Performance Regression On Newer AMD CPUs

At the end of April I reported on a significant performance regression affecting newer AMD CPUs and was bisected to a change in the AMD SRSO mitigation handling for Zen 4/5 processors with the Linux 6.15 kernel
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AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux Benchmarks: Outright Incredible Performance

We finally have AMD's Strix Halo in the lab for benchmarking! HP has kindly sent over their ZBook Ultra 14-inch G1a mobile workstation: it's a beast being powered by the top-end AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 SoC with 16 cores / 32 threads and powerful integrated Radeon 8060S graphics, 128GB of system memory, a nice 14-inch 2.8K display, and other top-end features to …
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AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux Benchmarks: Outright Incredible Performance Review

We finally have AMD's Strix Halo in the lab for benchmarking! HP has kindly sent over their ZBook Ultra 14-inch G1a mobile workstation: it's a beast being powered by the top-end AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 SoC with 16 cores / 32 threads and powerful in…
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AMD Radeon 8060S Linux Graphics Performance With Strix Halo

As shown in today's article the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux performance is incredible with its 16 Zen 5 cores delivering staggering laptop / mobile workstation performance with a 55 Watt default TDP. But that's only half the magic of Strix Halo, with the other aspect being the very capable integrated RDNA 3.5 graphics with unified memory support. Given this being an equally in…
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AMD Radeon 8060S Linux Graphics Performance With Strix Halo Review

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Updated Nouveau Driver Patches For NVIDIA Hopper & Blackwell GPUs

At the end of April was the open-source surprise of NVIDIA posting Nouveau Linux driver patches for their Hopper and Blackwell GPUs. This comes to complement their official (open-source but out of tree) kernel driver support for these newer NVIDIA GPUs and in the absence of the modern Rust-based NOVA Linux kernel driver not being in working shape yet on the mainline kerne…
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Updated Nouveau Driver Patches For NVIDIA Hopper & Blackwell GPUs

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Linux 6.15 Fix Merged For Sizable Performance Regression On Newer AMD CPUs

At the end of April I reported on a significant performance regression affecting newer AMD CPUs and was bisected to a change in the AMD SRSO mitigation handling for Zen 4/5 processors with the Linux 6.15 kernel. The fix for that significant performance regression was merged today ahead of the imminent Linux 6.15-rc6 release...
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Linux 6.15 Fix Merged For Sizable Performance Regression On Newer AMD CPUs

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One is Simply Doomed to Fail When Working for Violent Men From Microsoft and Attacking Women as Well as People Who Merely Expose Crimes or Report Real Crimes lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

One is Simply Doomed to Fail When Working for Violent Men From Microsoft and Attacking Women as Well as People Who Merely Expose Crimes or Report Real Crimes

Imagine saying to people that you
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Intel Arc Graphics B570 & B580 Gaming Performance On Linux For Mid 2025

A number of Phoronix readers have been inquiring in recent weeks around seeing updated Linux graphics/gaming benchmarks for the Intel Arc B-Series "Battlemage" graphics cards. So for your viewing pleasure today is a look at the Arc Graphics B580 and B570 graphics cards on Ubuntu 25.04 for showing how the graphics performance have improved with the open-source I…
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Intel Arc Graphics B570 & B580 Gaming Performance On Linux For Mid 2025

A number of Phoronix readers have been inquiring in recent weeks around seeing updated Linux graphics/gaming benchmarks for the Intel Arc B-Series 'Battlemage' graphics cards.
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Raspberry Pi Connect Exits Beta with Version 2.5 Release lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Raspberry Pi Connect Exits Beta with Version 2.5 Release Raspberry Pi Connect Exits Beta with Version 2.5 Release

Raspberry Pi has officially ended the beta phase of Raspberry Pi Connect, its remote access platform for connecting to Raspberry Pi devices from anywhere. With the release of version 2.
Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
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