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      Intel CPU Microcode 20260811 Release Fixes Eight Security Issues

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 hours ago

    Intel today published their 20260811 CPU microcode updates to fix a variety of issues for exciting processors, including shipping the first new microcode images for Bartlett Lake and Wildcat Lake. The new microcode updates stretch back to Intel Core Gen10 processors...
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      OpenAI Brings ChatGPT Desktop App To Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 hours ago

    OpenAI announced today they have brought their ChatGPT Desktop application to Linux and is currently in preview form...
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      Analyzing Fedora's Slow Performance On The Framework Laptop 13 Pro With Intel Panther Lake

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 hours ago

    As part of my recent Linux testing of the Framework Laptop 13 Pro I had recently benchmarked six Linux distributions on the Framework Laptop 13 Pro. CachyOS was the fastest to not much surprise but arguably the most surprising aspect was finding Fedora Workstation 44 typically running slower than the five other modern Linux distributions benchmarked. Here's a follow-up to that with more Fedora Linux benchmarks and the cause/workaround for Fedora's slower performance on the Intel Panther Lake laptop.
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      Flatpak 1.19 Released With Nine Security Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 hours ago

    Flatpak 1.19 was released today as a new development release along with the Flatpak 1.18.1 stable point release. Both of these releases ship a number of newly-discovered security issues with this app sandboxing and distribution tech...
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      GNOME Designers Lay Out Some Of Their GNOME Shell Dreams

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    GNOME interaction designer Tobias Bernard has shared some of the plans and ideas for long-term GNOME Shell improvements they have been eyeing for future GNOME releases...
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      Up To 12.8x Improvement Observed For gup_test With New Linux MM Patches

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    Linux developer Rik van Riel has pulled off some nice Linux kernel optimizations over the years and the Meta engineer has been working on another one around batching of look-ups with Linux's follow_page_mask() that is used for translating virtual addresses to the corresponding struct page...
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      Raspberry Pi AXI PMU Driver Under Review For The Mainline Linux Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    One of the Raspberry Pi device drivers that has remained elusive from the mainline Linux kernel has been for the performance monitoring unit (PMU) for the Broadcom AXI on all Raspberry Pi 1 through Raspberry Pi 5 models. Thanks to the work of a Google engineer, there is a new effort working to get a mainline Linux driver for the Raspberry Pi AXI PMU...
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      FastFlowLM 1.0 Released Now As Part Of The AMD ROCm Umbrella

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    FastFlowLM is the open-source software for getting vision, audio, embedding, and MoE large language models up and running on AMD Ryzen AI NPUs. FastFlowLM 1.0 released today and is also now part of the AMD ROCm software umbrella...
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      Rusticl Now Supports cl_ext_float_atomics

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    With the recent release of Mesa 26.2 the Rusticl OpenCL driver now supports OpenCL 3.1 on RadeonSI, LLVMpipe, Zink, Intel Iris, and Apple Asahi. But the work is not over and more improvements to this Rust-based, modern OpenCL driver continue to land...