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      Arch Linux AUR Under Another Wave Of Malicious Packages, Package Adoptions Halted

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:59

    Last month the Arch Linux User Repository "AUR" saw more than 1,500 malicious packages amid a sophisticated malware attack and then also seeing an influx of spam and profanities amid this community/user-maintained repository for the popular Arch Linux distribution. Unfortunately, there is another round of AUR troubles...
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      Linux 7.3 To Allow Tuning AMD P-State Dynamic EPP With Per CPU Core Granularity

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:18

    Sent out last night was the last batch of planned AMD P-State driver feature improvements targeting the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window...
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      Servo 0.4 Browser Engine Gets More Websites Rendering Correctly

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:01

    Servo 0.4 was just released for closing out the month of July. This month the Servo browser engine with its servoshell demo browser began rendering more real-world websites correctly...
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      Nouveau Patch For Linux 7.3 Opens The Door For NVK Vulkan Video Atop NVIDIA NVDEC

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:20

    This week's round of drm-misc-next patches for staging ahead of the Linux 7.3 kernel merge window bring an exciting change for the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver...
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      x86_64 Shadow Stack By Default Retargeted For Fedora 46

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:04

    In recent weeks there was a proposal to enable x86_64 Shadow Stack support by default with the upcoming Fedora Linux 45 release. That change has been approved now by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) but with the feature being punted off to Fedora 46 next year...
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      Vulkan 1.4.358 Released With New Image Tiling Control Extension

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:53

    After two weeks without any Vulkan spec update, Vulkan 1.4.358 was released overnight. Besides the usual assortment of minor clarifications/fixes, Vulkan 1.4.358 introduces one new extension: VK_EXT_image_tiling_control...
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      Sound Fixes For Linux 7.2-rc6: "Far Larger Than Wished"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:26

    Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE previously warned of many sound driver fixes due to AI/LLMs and a "new normal" of patch activity as a result. While we are approaching the end of the Linux 7.2 merge window with the stable release coming up in August, the sound patches continue trending higher and this week were "far larger than wished" ahead of Linux 7.2-rc6 due out on Sunday...
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      Linux 7.3 Will Treat Intel Nova Lake S Graphics As Stable

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    Ahead of the next-generation Intel Nova Lake processors expected to begin rolling out around the start of 2027, the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel cycle is going to begin treating Nova Lake S processors with their integrated graphics as stable...
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      AMD Posts Linux Patches For HDMI 2.1 Auto Low-Latency Mode "ALLM" & VRR

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    Following AMD posting AMDGPU patches for HDMI 2.1 FRL support after the HDMI 2.1 open-source support was long blocked by the HDMI Forum, as part of working toward a complete HDMI 2.1 implementation in this AMD Linux driver it was followed by HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression (DSC) support. Now the latest on the AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 enabling path is enabling Auto Low-Latency Mode (ALLM) as well as HDMI Variable Rate Refresh!..