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      Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 Beta Now Properly Handles Notches & Rounded Corners

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21:22

    The community of developers continuing to maintain Ubuntu Touch for smartphones has released the Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 beta ahead of the planned stable release in mid-July...
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      Intel Performance Skills: New Open-Source Project Leveraging AI For Linux Performance Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20:15

    The newest open-source project out of Intel is the Intel Performance Skills project that is providing AI agent skills to help with CPU performance analysis and performance optimizations on Linux...
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      FreeBSD Receives Funding To Launch AI-Assisted Vulnerability Discovery

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19:08

    The FreeBSD Project announced today the launch of an AI-Assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project with grant funding provided by the Linux Foundation backed Alpha-Omega project. Alpha-Mega has sponsors including Microsoft, AWS, Google, Anthrophic, OpenAI, and others who will now be helping with FreeBSD uncovering new vulnerabilities by leveraging AI...
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      GCC Steering Committee Supports Inclusion Of WebAssembly Backend

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18:51

    Last month a new GCC back-end was proposed for WebAssembly to allow C/C++ code to be compiled to WASM with this GNU compiler toolchain. The GCC Steering Committee has evaluated it and approves the notion of WebAssembly back-end for GCC...
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      Russian Spam & Profanities Are Now Plaguing The Arch Linux AUR

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:43

    After days of dealing with 1,500+ packages in the Arch Linux AUR containing malware, the latest headache in the Arch Linux User Repository is Russian spam and offensive messages...
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      Firefox 152 Now Available With JPEG-XL Support Built By Default, Modernized Settings UI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:15

    The Firefox 152.0 release binaries are now available ahead of tomorrow's official unveiling. With Firefox 152 there is now the JPEG-XL support code being compiled by default for the release albeit still disabled at run-time by default behind a preference for now...
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      Reading /proc/filesystems Is Surprisingly Done Very Often & Now As Much As 444% Faster

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:33

    Reading /proc/filesystems for obtaining a list of file-systems supported by the running kernel is done frequently on Linux. Namely due to being read by the SELinux library (libselinux), reading of /proc/filesystems is done more often than one would typically expect and now the Linux 7.2 kernel is optimizing for it to yield much better performance...
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      Framework Computer Making Progress On Coreboot For Their Modern Intel-Powered Laptops

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:05

    While we have seen Coreboot work-in-progress support for older Ryzen-powered Framework Laptops, it seems there is a recent uptick in development around supporting Coreboot on Framework Computer's modern Intel-powered wares...
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      Cache Aware Scheduling Merged For Linux 7.2 For Boosting Modern Intel & AMD CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:31

    The scheduler updates were merged this morning for the Linux 7.2 kernel and it's exciting. Cache Aware Scheduling has finally been merged! This is a win for especially modern Intel and AMD processors with multiple last level caches (LLCs)...