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      Intel Ending Development Of BigDL: An Open-Source AI/LLM Effort Getting Axed

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:38

    Among Intel's ongoing reduction in open-source projects they maintain, their BigDL open-source project focused on running large language models across Intel XPUs from Core Ultra laptops to discrete GPUs to cloud / data center hardware all in a low-latency manner, is being ended...
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      Fedora 45 Considering A Lightened GRUB Bootloader For Confidential Compute

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:22

    Among the changes being considered for the in-development Fedora 45 is a lightened version of the GRUB UEFI bootloader that would focus on being a minimal implementation suitable for confidential computing...
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      Intel Thermald 2.5.12 Released... With Initial Support For ARM

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:47

    Released on Friday was the newest version of Intel Thermald, the thermal daemon developed by Intel for their processors on Linux for monitoring and helping control temperatures across modern Intel-powered laptops and desktops. Catching me immediately by surprise was Intel Thermald 2.5.12 introducing support for ARM...
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      GCC 17 Merges Function Multi-Versioning For APX & AVX10.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:20

    Earlier this month I wrote about Intel working on function multi-versioning support for APX and AVX10.2 with the GCC compiler. This allows developers to write optimized code paths specifically targeting Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) or Advanced Vector Extensions 10.2 capabilities of future processors while being able to otherwise fall-back to generic or other optimized code paths for other ISA target features. This work is now merged for GCC 17...
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      Haiku OS Now Enables AVX-512 Support, Other Hardware Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:04

    The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system now enables Advanced Vector Extensions 512 on capable Intel/AMD CPUs. A number of other hardware driver improvements were also merged for this interesting OS during the last month...
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      KDE Plasma 6.7 Sees Last Minute Fixes Ahead Of Next Week's Release

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:46

    Ahead of the much anticipated Plasma 6.7 desktop release next week, KDE developers have been busy putting final touches on it, mostly in the form of bug/regression fixes...
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      Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:55

    The day started out with Arch Linux's AUR user-contributed repository seeing more than 400 packages compromised with malware. Now in ending out the day they believe all affected commits have been addressed. But it ended up being more than 1,500 affected packages...
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      OpenZFS 2.4.3 Released With Many Bug Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:32

    OpenZFS 2.4.3 is out today as the newest stable point release to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation as well as point releases for the OpenZFS 2.3 and 2.2 series too...
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      Wine 11.11 Released With Wayland Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    Alexandre Julliard just released Wine 11.11 as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software that powers Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and allows for running Windows games and applications under Linux as well as other platforms...