Linux Lands Fix For Early 6.17 Regression Causing 37~43% Performance Hit

Back during the Linux 6.17 merge window was an optimization geared for ARM64 that could have a "16x reduction" in the number of calls. Unfortunately that commit ended up causing a rather significant regression for some systems that has now been addressed...
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Google Develops KFuzzTest For Fuzzing Internal Linux Kernel Functions

Google engineers today introduced KFuzzTest as a new lightweight framework for in-kernel fuzz targets for internal kernel functions. KFuzzTest aims to make it easier to exercise Linux kernel code paths that are difficult to do from the system call boundary...
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Intel ISPC 1.28 Adds Optimized Support For AMD Zen 4 & Zen 5 CPUs

A new version of the Intel Implicit SPMD Program Compiler "ISPC" was just published for supporting that C programming language variant optimized for single program. multiple data (SPMD) programming that is optimized for Intel's various hardware offerings. While catering to Intel hardware, ISPC 1.28 notably adds new AMD Zen 4 and Zen 5 processor targets...
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Intel IDXD Accelerator Driver Cleaned Up For Some "Not So Happy Code Paths"

The IDXD Linux kernel driver used for the Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA) support on recent Xeon processors is being cleaned up for some "not so happy code paths" after an Intel engineer uncovered memory leaks and other troubles with the open-source driver code...
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Clearing The Last ReiserFS Remnants: Documentation Cleanse Of The Defunct File-System

It was nearly one year ago in the Linux 6.13 kernel that the ReiserFS file-system was dropped from the mainline kernel after having been deprecated in 2022. That dropped 32.8k lines of code from the Linux kernel but some documentation remnants of ReiserFS were mistakenly left in but now in the process of dropping those remnants for the defunct file-…
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FFmpeg 8.0 Merges OpenAI Whisper Filter For Automatic Speech Recognition

The upcoming FFmpeg 8.0 multimedia library release continues to get more exciting almost by the day. The newest feature being squeezed into this next release is a Whisper audio filter for making use of OpenAI's Whisper model for providing automatic speech recognition / transcription capabilities...
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WSL2 Vulnerability Could Lead To Elevating Local Privileges

Last week Microsoft released new versions of WSL2 for a yet-to-be-public security vulnerability affecting their Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 implementation. Those details around CVE-2025-53788 are now public for this vulnerability that could lead to elevation of privileges...
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GCC Developers Discuss Dropping Poorly Supported, Niche CPU Architectures

Following the discussion over potentially obsoleting/deprecating the Itanium IA-64 support within the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), developers are discussing similar treatment for some of the other poorly-maintained CPU ports...
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Sixfab ALPON X5 AI Brings Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 and 25 TOPS AI to Kickstarter lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 With Framework Desktop vs. Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Linux Performance lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Early Linux 6.17 Tests Show Some AMD Strix Halo Performance Improvements & Regressions lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Linux Address Space Isolation "ASI" Revived After Lowering 70% Performance Hit To 13% lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

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Go 1.25 Released With Experimental GC Yielding 10~40% Overhead Reduction

Go 1.25 is out today as the newest half-year update to this popular programming language. What I find most exciting with Go 1.25 is the new experimental garbage collector yielding 10~40% reduction in overhead...
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Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for August 13


Picture of the day
A close-in image of a protoplanetary disc HH 30 around a newly formed star produced by NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. It is surrounded by jets and a disc wind, and is located in the dark cloud LDN 1551 in the Taurus Molecular Cloud. Herbig-Haro objects are small nebulae found in star formation regions, marking the locations where gas outflowing from young stars is heated into luminescence by shockwaves. HH 30 is an example of where this outflowing gas takes the form of a narrow jet. The source star is located on one end of the jet, hidden behind an edge-on protoplanetary disc that the star is illuminating.

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Linux Address Space Isolation "ASI" Revived After Lowering 70% Performance Hit To 13%

Several years ago Google engineers began exploring address space isolation for the Linux kernel and ultimately proposing Linux ASI for better dealing with CPU speculative execution attacks. While the hope was it would better cope with the ever growing list of CPU speculative execution vulnerabilities, the effort was thwarted initially by I/O throughput se…
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