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      Intel Ends Work On Open-Source kAFL-Fuzzer For Fuzzing VMs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 March 2026

    An Intel project developed the past several years was kAFL-Fuzzer as a hardware-assisted feedback fuzzer for x86 virtual machines (VMs) to help with security. While it saw a lot of work in prior years, development activity slowed down last year and now the project has been formally ended...
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      CMake 4.3 Released With Package Import/Export Using The Common Package Specification

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 March 2026

    Version 4.3 of the CMake software development tool / build system was released today. Notable with CMake 4.3 is support for importing and exporting packages described using the Common Package Specification (CPS) for greater interoperability in the ecosystem...
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      systemd 260 Released: mstack, SysV Service Scripts Removed & AI Agents Documentation

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 March 2026

    Systemd 260 was just released as the newest stable version of this widely-used Linux init system and service manager. Systemd 260 brings yet more features to this critical open-source project and to be incorporated into H1'2026 Linux distributions...
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      OpenJDK 26 Released With The Java Applet API Finally Removed

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 March 2026

    OpenJDK 26 is out today as the newest GA reference version for the Java SE platform. With Java 26, it's finally time to say a goodbye to the Java Applet API...
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      AMD MLIR-AIE Releases New AIECC C++ Compiler To Help Bring New Workloads To Ryzen AI NPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 March 2026

    AMD Ryzen AI NPUs are now running LLMs on Linux with the recently debuted Lemonade 10.0 server and FastFlowLM 0.9.35 adding Linux support. In addition to those software components, AMD engineers have also been developing MLIR-AIE as a compiler toolchain for AMD AI Engine devices such as Ryzen AI NPUs in leveraging LLVM-based code generation with the Multi-Level Intermediate Representation (MLIR). Out today is MLIR-AIE v1.3 with some notable new features...
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      AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 Begins Supporting RISC-V

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 March 2026

    The community-focused, RHEL/CentOS-derived AlmaLinux distribution announced its support today for the RISC-V CPU ISA with AlmaLinux Kitten 10 builds being made available...
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      Linux 7.1 sched_ext To Add "SCX_ENQ_IMMED" For Tighter Control When Tasks Land On A CPU

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 March 2026

    The Linux kernel's extensible scheduler class "sched_ext" to allow for custom CPU scheduling policies as BPF programs continues enabling new functionality. Queued up in the sched_ext development code ahead of next month's Linux 7.1 cycle is the new SCX_ENQ_IMMED capability for enabling tighter control over when tasks land on a CPU...
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      Fedora Workstation 44 Beta Benchmarks On The AMD Ryzen AI Max Framework Desktop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 March 2026

    Since last week's Fedora 44 Beta release I have been testing out this upcoming Fedora Linux version on a few systems in the lab, most notably with the Framework Desktop powered by the powerful AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo". Fedora Workstation 44 Beta has been looking nice and running stable albeit in some instances seeing lower performance at this point than Fedora Workstation 43 but overall in good shape.
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      Imagination's Open-Source PowerVR Vulkan Driver Now Plays Nicely With Zink OpenGL

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 March 2026

    The past several years Imagination Tech has been investing in an upstream and open-source DRM kernel graphics driver as well as a PowerVR Vulkan driver in Mesa. Their Mesa focus has exclusively been on the PowerVR Vulkan driver with the plans all along to use the Zink generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation. With next quarter's Mesa 26.1 release, that goal is being realized with Zink now working nicely atop the PowerVR Vulkan driver for in turn achieving open-source OpenGL support on PowerVR...