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      KDE Plasma Saw At Least 9 Crash Fixes This Week

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 05:00

    KDE Plasma 6.6 feature development work continues winding down while Plasma 6.7 has begun seeing more feature work. This week also saw at least nine different crash fixes affecting Plasma/KWin...
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      GNU C Library 2.43 Released With More C23 Features, mseal & openat2 Functions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 01:06

    Version 2.43 of the GNU C Library "glibc" was released on Friday evening as the newest half-year feature update. This is a very feature packaged update and even managed to be released ahead of the 1 February release plan...
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      Linux GPU Driver Loophole Being Fixed For Unprivileged Users Being Able To Tap Unbounded Kernel Memory

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 days ago - 20:25

    An oversight in the Linux kernel's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) graphics driver common code could allow unprivileged users to trigger unbounded kernel memory consumption for a potential system-wide out-of-memory "OOM" situation...
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      Intel Xeon 6780E "Sierra Forest" Linux Performance ~14% Faster Since Launch

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 days ago - 17:00

    As part of my end-of-year 2025 benchmarking I looked at how the Intel Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids performance evolved in the year since launch and seeing some nice open-source/Linux optimizations during that time. On the other side of the table were also benchmarks of how AMD EPYC 8004 Sienna evolved in its two years, the AMD EPYC Milan-X in its four years since launch, and also a look at the performance evolution lower down the stack with the likes of sub-$500 laptop hardware. Out today is a fresh look at how the Intel Xeon 6780E Sierra Forest has evolved in its one and a half years since its launch.
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      AMD Announces Ryzen 7 9850X3D Pricing Of $499 USD

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 days ago - 15:19

    Back at CES AMD announced the Ryen 7 9850X3D as a faster sibling to the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Today they have announced the suggested price for this 3D V-Cache desktop processor and confirmation of its availability starting on 29 January...
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      Updated Intel Panther Lake IPU Firmware Published With New Features & Bug Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 days ago - 14:54

    Ahead of the first Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake laptops expected to hit retail channels next week, Intel has published updated IPU7 (IPU 7.5) firmware for the image processing unit used by the web cameras on the higher-end Panther Lake laptops...
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      Rust 1.93 Brings Improvement For Inline Assembly Handling

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 days ago - 14:18

    Rust 1.93 is out today as the first feature release for this programming lanugage of 2026...
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      AMD AOMP 22.0-2 Released With Flang Fortran Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 days ago - 13:15

    Yesterday along with releasing ROCm 7.2 there was also the release of AOMP 22.0-2 as the newest version of their open-source downstream of LLVM/Clang/Flang that is focused on offering the best OpenMP/OpenACC offloading support to Instinct/Radeon hardware...
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      Prominent Intel Compiler Engineer Heads Off To AMD

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 days ago - 11:12

    James Brodman worked for the last 15 years at Intel on their ISPC SIMD compiler and then in more recent years on the Intel DPC++ compiler and SYCL support as part of Intel's oneAPI initiative. Rather interestingly, this compiler expert has now joined AMD...