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      Intel Expanding Memory Options For Current Xeon 6 / Xeon 6+ Servers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18:47

    With Intel's next-generation Xeon Diamond Rapids processors not slated to launch until next year and with AMD EPYC Venice being right around the corner, Intel announced today that with upcoming BIOS updates they will be expanding the range of RDIMM and MRDIMM memory support for current-generation Xeon 6 and Xeon 6+ processors...
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      AMD Talks Up The Great Opportunities Of SPIR-V IR With ROCm

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:18

    While AMD ROCm 7.14 released last week as the first production release built off TheRock, there is already more to look forward to moving into the future with the AMD ROCm stack... In particular, SPIR-V with ROCm becoming a reality for unified binaries that can work across graphics architectures/targets, better portability across GPU hardware, and other improvements to the experience in targeting a unified IR...
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      GNOME Changes Security Disclosure Policies Due To AI-Generated Reports

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:55

    The GNOME project is changing its handling of security reports due to the influx of AI/LLM-generated security findings...
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      Linux 7.2 Improves Intel Panther Lake Xe3 Arc B390 Graphics Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:00

    My testing of the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel continues in the lab. One of the latest promising findings from this kernel that will be released as stable in August is faster Intel Xe3 graphics performance on Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" hardware.
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      Linux Patches Introduce "KNOD" For In-Kernel Network Offloading Directly To AMD GPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:38

    Some extremely cool patches were posted to the Linux kernel mailing list on Sunday. The patches for "KNOD" allow for in-kernel network offloading to GPUs with an initial focus on AMD GPU support. What makes this all the more nifty is that it doesn't depend upon any user-space libraries like AMD ROCm but is all handled in-kernel with driving the GPU directly...
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      Firefox 153 Available With Support For Vulkan Video Decoding, Experimental JPEG-XL

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:32

    Mozilla has uploaded the Firefox 153.0 release binaries today for the newest monthly update to this cross-platform web browser. Making Firefox 153 exciting is that it's the newest Extended Support Release "ESR" as well as introducing Vulkan Video decode support...
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      openSUSE Seeking Additional Corporate Sponsors

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:17

    While openSUSE is closely aligned with SUSE as a company, they aren't the exclusive sponsor of this free and open-source Linux distribution with its rolling-release Tumbleweed and Leap stable releases. AMD has been a longtime major supporter of openSUSE and the Fastly content delivery company has been another platinum sponsor too besides SUSE. There are also various other lower-tier sponsors while today the openSUSE Project put out a call for further corporate sponsorship...
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      AMD Posts AVX10_V2_AUX ISA Support Patches For GCC Compiler

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:27

    Earlier this month Intel compiler engineers posted initial GCC compiler patches for the AI Compute Extensions "ACE" that was born out of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group to augment AVX and scalar code with new capabilities for AI/ML workloads. Now as part of that an AMD compiler engineer posted patches over the weekend for AVX10_V2_AUX ISA support...
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      Linux's Qualcomm Crypto Accelerator Driver "Harmful" And Being Disabled: Slower Than CPU, History Of Bugs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:17

    The Qualcomm Crypto Engine Accelerator "QCE" driver is being disabled within the Linux 7.3 kernel over a number of issues, including being slower than having the CPU cores handling cryptographic work and a history of different driver bugs. Plus race conditions causing security issues and other challenges...