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      Rsync 3.5 Released As "Extraordinary" Update To Fix 33 Security Issues

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1:26

    Rsync as the widely-used, open-source remote sync software for synchronizing files and directories across networks is out today with a very important update...
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      Comma.ai Launches A PCIe Gen4 x4 To USB4 Dock With Open-Source Firmware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:35

    George Hotz of Comma.ai and Tinygrad today announced the Tiny Chestnut eGPU Dock and the "Chestnut" Dock complete with an AMD Radeon RX 9060 8GB GPU too. Making this Chestnut / Tiny Chestnut Dock interesting is that it runs on open-source firmware...
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      Tenstrorrent Posts GCC Compiler Patches For Ascalon XG Core

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 hours ago

    While the Tenstorrent Ascalon X is known as their high performance out-of-order RISC-V RVA23 CPU core for extreme performance over the H and S models, a new GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) patch today from Tenstorrent makes known a new Ascalon XG core...
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      GCC 17 Compiler Adding "-m128bit-atomic" For 128-bit Atomic Memory Operations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 hours ago

    Merged today to the GNU Compiler Collection Git code is the new -m128bit-atomic option for next year's GCC 17 feature release...
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      Manjaro Linux 26.1 Released With GNOME 50 & KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktops

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 hours ago

    Manjaro 26.1 Bian-May is now available as the newest feature release to this desktop Linux distribution built atop an Arch Linux base...
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      Intel AMX Performance With The Xeon 678X Workstation CPU

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 hours ago

    One of the most compelling features for Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids alongside MRDIMMs is Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) for helping accelerate AI workloads and more. AMX is also found with the new Granite Rapids WS processors and in currently having my hands on an Intel Xeon 678X in the HP Z4 G6i workstation, I ran some benchmarks looking at the AMX performance and power impact for this high-end workstation.
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      Linux Finally Seeing Patches For Better Hybrid Graphics On 2018~2019 Era MacBook Pros

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    Patches posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list provide support for Apple GMUX hybrid graphics support on 2018~2019 Apple MacBook Pros. This allows for better power savings on these nearly decade old MacBook Pro laptops by allowing the discrete GPU to power down and be properly restored as needed...
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      Intel ANV Driver Enables Vulkan Video AV1 Encoding For DG2/Alchemist GPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    Hyunjun Ko of Igalia continues working on Vulkan Video support for Intel graphics hardware on Linux with the ANV driver. Merged now for Mesa 26.3-devel is enabling AV1 video encoding via Vulkan Video on DG2/Alchemist hardware...
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      Linux 7.2 To Revert Back To The FIFO DRM Scheduler Policy Due To "Fair" Regressions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    One of the Direct Rendering Manager changes made for Linux 7.2 was switching to "fair" as the DRM scheduler default in place of the existing FIFO policy. The intent was on making the DRM scheduler policy more fair with this being used by AMDGPU and various other DRM kernel graphics drivers. But due to a last minute regression report, the fair policy is being reverted for Linux 7.2...