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DE25-Standard Development Kit with Agilex 5 SoC FPGA and DDR4 Support lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

DE25-Standard Development Kit with Agilex 5 SoC FPGA and DDR4 Support

The DE25-Standard development kit for the Altera University Program features the Intel Agilex 5 SoC FPGA with 138K logic elements, delivering up to 2.5× higher performance than previous generations.
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Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for August 14
Picture of the day
The Victorious Youth is a Greek bronze sculpture, made between 300 and 100 BCE, in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, displayed at the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, California. It was found on this day of 1964 in the sea off Fano on the Adriatic coast of Italy.

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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 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 l…
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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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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
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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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Google Develops KFuzzTest For Fuzzing Internal Linux Kernel Functions

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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 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
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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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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…
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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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Clearing The Last ReiserFS Remnants: Documentation Cleanse Of The Defunct File-System

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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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FFmpeg 8.0 Merges OpenAI Whisper Filter For Automatic Speech Recognition

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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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WSL2 Vulnerability Could Lead To Elevating Local 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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GCC Developers Discuss Dropping Poorly Supported, Niche CPU Architectures

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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…

Sixfab ALPON X5 AI Brings Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 and 25 TOPS AI to Kickstarter Sixfab ALPON X5 AI Brings Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 and 25 TOPS AI to Kickstarter

Sixfab has launched the ALPON X5 AI on Kickstarter, a compact industrial-grade edge AI computer for applications including smart surveillance, healthcare monitoring, autonomous robotics, and industrial automation.
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AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 With Framework Desktop vs. Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Linux Performance lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 With Framework Desktop vs. Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Linux Performance Review

Last week alongside our Framework Desktop review with the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 'Strix Halo' SoC I posted benchmarks of the Strix Halo performance compared to the Ryzen 9 9950X / 9950X3D socketed desktop processors.
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