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      Rust 1.100 Released With The "Never" Type Finally Stable

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    Rust 1.100 is out today as the newest version of this popular programming language...
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      AMD Zen 6 SMT Proves Very Advantageous Even For 256 Core EPYC 9996

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    With the now-shipping AMD EPYC 9006 "Venice" SP7 server processors sporting up to 256 Zen 6(C) cores per socket, or 512 cores in a 2P configuration, you may be wondering if Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) is still worthwhile on these increasingly high core count processors. Long story short, SMT on AMD Zen 6 is still definitely worthwhile from a performance and power perspective. I was curious myself and ran some benchmarks to explore the SMT impact on the 256-core EPYC 9996 as well as the 96-core high frequency EPYC 9686F processors.
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      PostgreSQL Sees New Releases For 52 Security Vulnerabilities, 140+ Bug Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    PostgreSQL 18.7, 17.12, 16.16, 15.20, 14.25, and 19 RC2 all released today due to 52 new security issues being disclosed...
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      Khronos To Explore New High Level API For Remote Offloading

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    The Khronos Group, the industry consortium responsible for OpenGL, OpenCL, Vulkan, and other industry standard APIs has formed an exploratory group to evaluate the possibility of a high-level remote offloading API...
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      ReactOS Gets Working Floppy Disk Support, VMware 3D Acceleration & SMP Progress

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    ReactOS as the open-source operating system project working on Microsoft Windows driver and application compatibility had a pretty successful 2026. Following two hackfests, a lot of new features have landed recently for ReactOS and some others are nearing the finish line...
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      NVIDIA NvRoot & ForgePtr Vulnerabilities Published For Linux Driver, 25 More Coming

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    In addition to Jensen Huang resigning, coincidentally the embargo just expired on the first two of 25 more NVIDIA graphics driver security vulnerabilities coming. ForgePtr and NvRoot are particularly volatile for those renting GPU slices in the cloud...
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      NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Resigns

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    Following reports of two extramarital affairs, one with an alleged Chinese spy and the other with a VP that is a direct report to him, Jensen Huang is no longer CEO of NVIDIA...
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      Linux 7.5 To Improve Support For Old ASUS Transformer Hybrid Laptops/Tablets

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    For those that happen to have ASUS Transformer devices as the roughly decade old convertible/hybrid 2-in-1 laptop/tablet computers, the Linux 7.5 kernel in 2027 is improving support for these aging systems powered by either NVIDIA Tegra or Intel Atom SoCs...
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      Intel Xe Driver Preparing SR-IOV Provisioning For vGPU Profiles

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 hours ago

    With the upcoming Linux 7.5 kernel cycle the Intel Xe graphics driver is preparing SR-IOV provisioning for vGPU profiles...