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      Linux GPU Driver Loophole Being Fixed For Unprivileged Users Being Able To Tap Unbounded Kernel Memory

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 January 2026

    An oversight in the Linux kernel's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) graphics driver common code could allow unprivileged users to trigger unbounded kernel memory consumption for a potential system-wide out-of-memory "OOM" situation...
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      Intel Xeon 6780E "Sierra Forest" Linux Performance ~14% Faster Since Launch

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 January 2026

    As part of my end-of-year 2025 benchmarking I looked at how the Intel Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids performance evolved in the year since launch and seeing some nice open-source/Linux optimizations during that time. On the other side of the table were also benchmarks of how AMD EPYC 8004 Sienna evolved in its two years, the AMD EPYC Milan-X in its four years since launch, and also a look at the performance evolution lower down the stack with the likes of sub-$500 laptop hardware. Out today is a fresh look at how the Intel Xeon 6780E Sierra Forest has evolved in its one and a half years since its launch.
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      AMD Announces Ryzen 7 9850X3D Pricing Of $499 USD

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 January 2026

    Back at CES AMD announced the Ryen 7 9850X3D as a faster sibling to the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Today they have announced the suggested price for this 3D V-Cache desktop processor and confirmation of its availability starting on 29 January...
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      Updated Intel Panther Lake IPU Firmware Published With New Features & Bug Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 January 2026

    Ahead of the first Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake laptops expected to hit retail channels next week, Intel has published updated IPU7 (IPU 7.5) firmware for the image processing unit used by the web cameras on the higher-end Panther Lake laptops...
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      Rust 1.93 Brings Improvement For Inline Assembly Handling

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 January 2026

    Rust 1.93 is out today as the first feature release for this programming lanugage of 2026...
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      AMD AOMP 22.0-2 Released With Flang Fortran Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 January 2026

    Yesterday along with releasing ROCm 7.2 there was also the release of AOMP 22.0-2 as the newest version of their open-source downstream of LLVM/Clang/Flang that is focused on offering the best OpenMP/OpenACC offloading support to Instinct/Radeon hardware...
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      Prominent Intel Compiler Engineer Heads Off To AMD

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 January 2026

    James Brodman worked for the last 15 years at Intel on their ISPC SIMD compiler and then in more recent years on the Intel DPC++ compiler and SYCL support as part of Intel's oneAPI initiative. Rather interestingly, this compiler expert has now joined AMD...
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      ReactOS Celebrates 30 Years In Striving To Be An Open-Source Windows Implementation

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 January 2026

    The ReactOS project is celebrating today that it marks 30 years since their first code commit in the ReactOS source tree. During the past 30 years now the project has seen more than 88k commits from more than 300 developers as it seeks to be a robust open-source Windows implementation. In their 30 year birthday blog post they also provide a look ahead at what they're working on...
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      Linux Finally Retiring HIPPI: The First Near-Gigabit Standard For Networking Supercomputers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 January 2026

    While the Linux kernel has been seeing preparations from NVIDIA for 1.6 Tb/s networking in preparing for next-generation super-computing, the kernel has still retained support to now for the High Performance Parallel Interface. HIPPI was the standard for connecting supercomputers in the late 1980s and a portion of the 1990s with being the first networking standard for near-Gigabit connectivity at 800 Mb/s over distances up to 25 meters. But HIPPI looks like it will be retired from the mainline kernel with Linux 7.0...