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      AMD Sends Out Linux Patches For Enabling SEV-TIO TDISP With PCIe 6.0+

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:02

    The newest Linux kernel patches out of AMD for enhancing the upstream support with the new AMD EPYC 9006 "Venice" processors is for enabling SEV-TIO TDISP that is supported with PCI Express 6.0 and beyond...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 Moves cp, mv & rm Over To Rust Coreutils For 100% Transition

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:26

    While Ubuntu Linux has been making use of the Rust Coreutils project over the past year since Ubuntu 25.10 as an alternative to GNU Coreutils and part of their effort to get more system components implemented in the memory-safety-focused Rust programming language, Ubuntu 26.10 finally completes the transition with the cp, mv, and rm commands now coming from Rust Coreutils...
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      Linux's Yogafan Driver Prepares Support For Newer Lenovo Laptops

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:29

    Introduced back in Linux 7.1 was the Yogafan HWMON driver for supporting fan speed monitoring across various Lenovo Yoga, Legion, Flex, Slim, and IdeaPad laptops. An initial set of Lenovo laptops was initially supported by this driver while succeeding kernel versions have continued building out the support...
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      AMD's GAIA Local AI Now Able To Transcribe & Summarize Meeting Recordings

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:19

    AMD's GAIA software for building AI agents on your PC and leveraging generative AI locally with the power of AMD Ryzen and Radeon hardware continues becoming more featureful. Out today is AMD GAIA 0.24/0.24.1 and with it comes the ability to transcribe and summarize meeting recordings locally along with other functionality...
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      OpenVDB Introduces SIMD Framework With Some 2~4x Performance Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:05

    OpenVDB is the sparse volume data structure and tooling library maintained by the Academy Software Foundation. OpenVDB in turn is used by various CGI software for dealing with sparse volumetric data such as Houdini, RenderMan, and Cinema 4D to the open-source Blender. It's even won an Academy Award for technical achievement while now in 2026 it's finally establishing a SIMD framework for better leveraging modern x86 ISA capabilities...
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      Linux 7.4 Slated To Land The AVX-512 Optimized xor_gen For A Big Performance Win

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:53

    Over the past few months there have been patches floating around for an AVX-512 optimized xor_gen() for the Linux kernel for that functuon used by the Linux software RAID code. It's been shhowing very nice performance gains with this function being used for generating and validating parity blocks such as for RAID5 and RAID6. The upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle is slated to merge this nice enhancement for benefiting AMD Zen 4 and newer or current Intel server CPUs with AVX-512...
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      AMD P-State Driver For Linux 7.4 Will Tune For Zen 6 Client CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    Linux 7.4 looks like it will be a very exciting kernel update for AMD customers. On the AMD Radeon graphics side HDMI 2.1 is being enabled by default with the AMDGPU driver with the HDMI FreeSync, VRR, and ALLM features in tow. On the AMD Ryzen client CPU side, there will be Zen 6 tuning with the AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver...
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      SDL3 Ported To HarmonyOS / OpenHarmony

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 hours ago

    The SDL3 library commonly used for games and applications for cross-platform hardware and software abstractions now has upstream support for Huawei's HarmonyOS and OpenHarmony...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 Set To Deliver Better Performance For Intel Core 3 Wildcat Lake

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    While Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is working fine out-of-the-box on new Intel Core 3 "Wildcat Lake" laptops like the CHUWI UniBook, next month's release of Ubuntu 26.10 will help deliver better performance out of these low-cost laptop options.