Linux Preps For New "SoC Power Slider" With Upcoming Panther Lake

While it looked like Linux 6.17 was going to be a good baseline for support with upcoming Intel Panther Lake powered laptops given that this next kernel release ships with the Xe3 graphics enabled by default and other bits coming together, it looks like there is at least one late item only being presented today in patch form: a new "SoC Power Slider" feature as part o…
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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…