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Disabling Intel Graphics Security Mitigations Can Boost GPU Compute Performance By 20%

While not talked about as much as the Intel CPU security mitigations, Intel graphics security mitigations have added up over time that if disabling Intel graphics security mitigations for their GPU compute stack for OpenCL and Level Zero can yield a 20% performance boost. Ubuntu maker Canonical in cooperation with Intel is preparing to disable thes…
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Disabling Intel Graphics Security Mitigations Can Boost GPU Compute Performance By 20%

While not talked about as much as the Intel CPU security mitigations, Intel graphics security mitigations have added up over time that if disabling Intel graphics security mitigations for their GPU compute stack for OpenCL and Level Zero can yield a …
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3mdeb Carries Out Experimental Port Of AMD OpenSIL To Zen 1 Platform

The 3mdeb firmware consulting firm recently hosted another one of their virtual events about open-source firmware and beer. There they talked about AMD's ongoing work around OpenSIL for open-source CPU silicon initialization. In addition, they shared work on an experimental port of OpenSIL back to Zen 1 processors...
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3mdeb Carries Out Experimental Port Of AMD OpenSIL To Zen 1 Platform

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HackerBox 0115 Wispier Upgrades Wardriving with Dual-Band Wi-Fi and GPS lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

HackerBox 0115 Wispier Upgrades Wardriving with Dual-Band Wi-Fi and GPS HackerBox 0115 Wispier Upgrades Wardriving with Dual-Band Wi-Fi and GPS

HackerBox is a monthly subscription service offering development kits targeted at hobbyists, students, and electronics enthusiasts. HackerBox 0115, titled "Wispier," is a follow-up to the earlier Wispy kit (HackerBox 0089).
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KDE Plasma Remains Committed To A Wayland Future: 70%+ Already On Wayland lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

KDE Plasma Remains Committed To A Wayland Future: 70%+ Already On Wayland

Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham put out a blog post today reaffirming the KDE Plasma's intent that Wayland is their main focus and X11 support continues to be maintained but eventually it will go away
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KDE Plasma Remains Committed To A Wayland Future: 70%+ Already On Wayland

Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham put out a blog post today reaffirming the KDE Plasma's intent that Wayland is their main focus and X11 support continues to be maintained but eventually it will go away. Nate Graham also noted around 73% of KDE Plasma 6 users are already using the Wayland session...
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KDE Plasma Remains Committed To A Wayland Future: 70%+ Already On Wayland

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GNOME Fixes Years-Old Bug Of Trash Not Always Being Properly Emptied

This Week in GNOME is out with its latest issue that outlines some UI progress made as well as addressing an aging GNOME bug that could result in not all files/directories being properly removed when emptying the Trash from the GNOME desktop...
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GNOME Fixes Years-Old Bug Of Trash Not Always Being Properly Emptied

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KDE Plasma 6.4 Is Looking To Be In Good Shape, Fewer Bugs

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly blog post summarizing all of the interesting KDE Plasma developments for the past week. Notable this week was the debut of Plasma 6.4 stable and from early user feedback appears to be in good shape...
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KDE Plasma 6.4 Is Looking To Be In Good Shape, Fewer Bugs

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ASUS Broadens Its 3.5" SBC Lineup with New Intel Core Ultra Models lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

ASUS Broadens Its 3.5" SBC Lineup with New Intel Core Ultra Models ASUS Broadens Its 3.5" SBC Lineup with New Intel Core Ultra Models

ASUS IoT has introduced two new 3.5-inch single board computers, the C5153ES-IM-AA and C7156ES-IM-AA, both based on Intel Core Ultra processors.
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AMD Instinct MI350X Series Microcode Upstreamed - Other AMD GPUs See Updates Too

A number of AMD firmware/microcode updates were upstreamed today to the linux-firmware.git repository, including introducing the AMD Instinct MI350 series files that are necessary for the open-source Linux compute driver stack to function for those newly-announced Instinct accelerators...
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AMD Instinct MI350X Series Microcode Upstreamed - Other AMD GPUs See Updates Too

A number of AMD firmware/microcode updates were upstreamed today to the linux-firmware.git repository, including introducing the AMD Instinct MI350 series files that are necessary for the open-source Linux compute driver stack to function for those n…
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HydraSDR RFOne Preview Highlights Extensible SDR Design with Open Firmware lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

HydraSDR RFOne Preview Highlights Extensible SDR Design with Open Firmware HydraSDR RFOne Preview Highlights Extensible SDR Design with Open Firmware

HydraSDR RFOne is a USB software-defined radio receiver capable of capturing up to 10 MHz of bandwidth across a continuous range from 24 MHz to 1.8 GHz.
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Intel Continues Working On Linear Address Space Separation "LASS" For Linux

Going back to January of 2023 there were the initial Intel patches for the Linux kernel introducing Linear Address Space Separation (LASS). Two and a half years later, these Intel LASS patches remain in-development with today the sixth iteration of these patches having been posted...
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Intel Continues Working On Linear Address Space Separation "LASS" For Linux

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Apple x86 Touch Bar Input & Apple Magic Keyboard USB-C Support In Linux 6.17

Over the past week a number of Apple device support additions have been queued up into the HID subsystem's "for-next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.17 kernel cycle...
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Apple x86 Touch Bar Input & Apple Magic Keyboard USB-C Support In Linux 6.17

Over the past week a number of Apple device support additions have been queued up into the HID subsystem's 'for-next' branch ahead of the Linux 6.17 kernel cycle.
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Bela Upgrades Embedded DSP Platforms with PocketBeagle 2 Support and New Web IDE lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Bela Upgrades Embedded DSP Platforms with PocketBeagle 2 Support and New Web IDE Bela Upgrades Embedded DSP Platforms with PocketBeagle 2 Support and New Web IDE

Bela.io has unveiled the Gem Stereo and Gem Multi, two new open-source boards that expand PocketBeagle 2 into a real-time digital signal processing platform.
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Linux Delivering Driver Fix For 30 Year Old Creative SoundBlaster AWE32 ISA Sound Card

Thirty-one years after Creative Technology introduced the Sound Blaster AWE32 ISA-based sound card, the open-source driver support within the Linux kernel continues to be worked on... Submitted today for Linux 6.16 is fixing support for this once mighty ISA sound card from the mid 90's...
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Linux Delivering Driver Fix For 30 Year Old Creative SoundBlaster AWE32 ISA Sound Card

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AAEON Adds to UP Lineup with UP TWL and UP TWLS Developer Boards for Edge and IoT Applications lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

AAEON Adds to UP Lineup with UP TWL and UP TWLS Developer Boards for Edge and IoT Applications AAEON Adds to UP Lineup with UP TWL and UP TWLS Developer Boards for Edge and IoT Applications

AAEON has launched two new developer boards under its UP brand: the UP TWL and UP TWLS. Based on Intel’s N-series platform (formerly Twin Lake), the UP TWL targets classic development needs, while the UP TWLS offers a slimmer layout for compact, IoT-…
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Latest Bcachefs Code Draws Torvalds' Ire Over Late Feature Code

There is some tension on the Linux kernel mailing list with some late Bcachefs feature work sent in as part of "fixes" for the ongoing Linux 6.16 kernel cycle. Established rules aim for only new feature code to be introduced during the kernel merge windows, which ended nearly two weeks ago for Linux 6.16, but Bcachefs wanting to be exempt to continue to allow new featur…
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Latest Bcachefs Code Draws Torvalds' Ire Over Late Feature Code

There is some tension on the Linux kernel mailing list with some late Bcachefs feature work sent in as part of 'fixes' for the ongoing Linux 6.16 kernel cycle
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