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      X.Org Server Starts June With Nine New Security Vulnerabilities Discovered Via AI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:30

    There are nine new security vulnerabilities impacting the X.Org Server as well as the XWayland component. Yep, more than a decade after X.Org Server security issues began coming to light with a security research acknowledging it's a disaster and "it's worse than it looks", it continues holding true...
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      AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE Linux Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:00

    Yesterday AMD kicked off Computex 2026 in announcing the Radeon RX 9070 GRE alongside a number of other product announcements. With the Radeon RX 9070 GRE going on sale today, the review embargo has now lifted on this new RDNA 4 consumer graphics card slated to be priced around $549 USD. Here is an initial look at the Linux performance benchmarks of this new AMD graphics card offering.
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      Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids EDAC Driver Changes Readied For Linux 7.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 hours ago

    Ahead of Intel Diamond Rapids server processors launching in 2027, the Linux kernel continues getting into shape for these next-gen Xeon processors. The latest enablement work taking place for Diamond Rapids is readying the Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) driver support for propagating memory errors/correction information under Linux...
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      Intel Preparing WiFi 8 "UHR" Support For Their IWLWIFI Linux Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    Intel open-source software engineers have been busy beginning to prepare their upstream IWLWIFI wireless driver in the Linux kernel for supporting their next-gen WiFi adapters supporting the WiFi 8 "Ultra High Reliability" standard...
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      Linux 7.2 Proceeding To Deprecate AF_ALG Due To "Massive Attack Surface", Drops Offloading

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    The Linux kernel's AF_ALG interface for user-space applications to directly access the Linux kernel's built-in cryptographic engine is proceeding with a quick deprecation cycle due to a "massive attack surface" with increased vulnerabilities coming to light due to AI/LLM-based tooling...
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      Phoronix Marking 22 Years Of Linux Hardware Coverage This Week

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    On 5 June marks 22 years since starting Phoronix.com for covering the Linux hardware space and open-source news...
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      Some Elements Of Intel APX Not Proving Beneficial On Nova Lake / Diamond Rapids

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    Some compiler tuning merged today to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is disabling some features of Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) for upcoming Intel Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids processors as they are not proving worthwhile for performance...
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      NBD-VRAM Provides Swap Space On Your NVIDIA GeForce GPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    An open-source developer has created NBD-VRAM as a way to create swap space on your consumer NVIDIA GPU's video memory under Linux...
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      FreeBSD 15.1-RC2 Restores PadLock RNG For VIA & Zhaoxin CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    A second release candidate of FreeBSD 15.1 was warranted and in turn released this weekend which now pushes the stable release back by one week...