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      Rust PNG Image Decoder Now Even Faster: Benefiting Chrome, GNOME, Etc

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17:04

    The Rust PNG crate, image-png, for PNG image encoding and decoding was already claimed to be the fastest PNG decoder in the world for the past year. Now with the latest optimizations, it's even faster...
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      Claude AI Assists In Fixing Years Old AMD Radeon Linux Display Bug Affecting Numerous Laptops

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:00

    A bug in the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver leading to some laptop displays freezing after periods of use may finally be close to being resolved. Given the length and quantity of bug reports and one of the problematic commits being tracked back to 2017, it's a heavy hitting issue for some Linux users. With the help of Claude Code, it looks like a fix is on the way to the Linux kernel...
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      AF_ALG Deprecation Approved For Linux 7.2, Useless & Insecure Crypto Driver Code Removed

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:43

    The cryptographic subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.2 kernel merge window...
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      Ubuntu Flavors Now Mandated To Participate In Beta Releases For Official Status

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:39

    Canonical and the Ubuntu Release Team have implemented an important policy change for Ubuntu flavors moving forward. If they are to have an official release, they must now successfully submit a beta release...
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      Latest LLVM Patch Further Points To AMD GFX1250/GFX1251 Being Instinct Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:36

    With the ongoing work around the AMD GFX1250 (and GFX1251) in the open-source AMD Linux driver stack, it's led to a lot of speculation about these parts in the GFX12 series associated with RDNA4. RDNA4 refresh? Or a lot of signals have pointed to GFX125x being possible AI/HPC accelerators such as for the upcoming Instinct MI400 series. Adding to the intrigue is GFX1251 being an APU. The latest LLVM compiler activity is further pointing to GFX1250/GFX1251 being for enterprise hardware...
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      Linux 7.2 EDAC Drivers Prep For Diamond Rapids, Nova Lake H

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:24

    The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) drivers, such as for dealing with ECC memory error reporting, are heavy on the Intel side with Linux 7.2 in preparing for upcoming hardware...
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      SteamOS 3.8.10 Stable Released With Updated Arch, Steam Machine Support & Wayland Desktop Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:06

    Overnight Valve released SteamOS 3.8.10 into the stable channel. for succeeding SteamOS 3.7. There's a lot happening across the board to their in-house Linux platform for the likes of the Steam Deck and upcoming Steam Machine hardware...
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      Linux 7.2 Protects Against "Stupid Or Malicious" DoS Attempts By Arming Timers In The Past

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:58

    There are a number of time(r) core subsystem changes for the Linux 7.2 kernel to better harden the kernel...
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      AI/LLM Patch Craziness Having An Impact On ARM64 Linux Kernel Development

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:26

    The ongoing rise in AI/LLM-generated patches hitting the mailing lists and affecting development workflows continues to impact Linux kernel development. For the ARM64 architecture updates in Linux 7.2 is an interesting anecdote over over feeling like this activity has "slowed us down a little on the feature side" and having to deal with this AI/LLM patch activity resulted in some features now being postponed from making it for this current Linux kernel development cycle...