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      FreeRDP 3.23 Addresses 11 CVEs, Improved SDL Client

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 February 2026

    For those making use of the open-source FreeRDP project for your Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) needs, FreeRDP 3.23 is out today with 11 CVEs addressed in taking care of various security-related issues that have been uncovered...
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      AMD Posts Linux Patches For SEV-SNP BTB Isolation

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 February 2026

    It's quite a mouthful but today AMD posted Linux kernel patches for preparing SEV-SNP BTB isolation support for further enhancing the security of virtual machines (VMs) for confidential computing...
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      Lutris 0.5.21 Adds Support For Running Games Inside Valve's Latest Steam Runtime

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 February 2026

    Lutris 0.5.21 is now available as the latest version of this open-source Linux game manager. With Lutris 0.5.21 comes some new runners for executing games in different environments...
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      COSMIC Epoch 1.0.8 Released With More Desktop Refinements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 February 2026

    While System76 has been hard at work on a redesigned Thelio desktop chassis design, this hasn't slowed down their software work. Today they shipped COSMIC Epoch 1.0.8 as the newest work on their open-source, Rust-based desktop environment used by their in-house Pop!_OS Linux distribution as well as found in other Linux distributions too...
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      D7VK 1.4 Released With More Improvements For Old Direct3D On Vulkan Under Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 February 2026

    D7VK is the open-source project that began implementing the Direct3D 7 APIs atop Vulkan and with time the scope expanded to include Direct3D 6 support as well as Direct3D 5 support. Out today is D7VK 1.4 for continuing to enhance the support for these older D3D versions on Vulkan under Linux...
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      Google Cloud N4 Series Benchmarks: Google Axion vs. Intel Xeon vs. AMD EPYC Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 February 2026

    Google Cloud recently launched their N4A series powered by their in-house Axion ARM64 processors. In that launch-day benchmarking last month was looking at how the N4A with Axion compared to their prior-generation ARM64 VMs powered by Ampere Altra. There were dramatic generational gains, but how does the N4A stand up to the AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon instances? Here are some follow-up benchmarks I had done to explore the N4A performance against the Intel Xeon N4 and AMD EPYC N4D series.
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      AMD's HIP Moves To Using LLVM's New Offload Driver By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 February 2026

    A change merged to upstream LLVM Git yesterday for LLVM 23 is moving AMD's HIP to using the new/modern offload driver by default. This aligns with a prior change for NVIDIA CUDA and already in place for OpenMP offloading too...
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      Intel Formally Ends Four Of Their Go Language Open-Source Projects

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 February 2026

    Following various Intel open-source projects recently being archived with Intel formally discontinuing their development, another wave of Intel open-source projects were formally sunset on Monday...
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      LLVM/Clang 22 Compiler Officially Released With Many Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 February 2026

    LLVM/Clang 22.1 was released overnight as the first stable release of the LLVM 22 series. This is a nice, feature-packaged half-year update to this prominent open-source compiler stack with many great refinements...