Linux 6.5 Patches Merged For Intel GDS/DOWNFALL, AMD INCEPTION (www.phoronix.com)
This merge adds the kernel-side bits around mitigating AMD’s Speculative Return Address Stack (RAS) overflow vulnerability for Zen 3 and Zen 4. See this earlier article for details on this AMD INCEPTION disclosure....
Good news for AMD Linux users - fTPM RNG will soon be disabled (www.phoronix.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/2852886...
Intel DOWNFALL: New Vulnerability Affecting AVX2/AVX-512 With Big Performance Implications (www.phoronix.com)
AMD "INCEPTION" CPU Vulnerability Disclosed (www.phoronix.com)
AMD-SB-7005 “Return Address Security Bulletin” outlines this new speculative side channel attack affecting recent EPYC and Ryzen processors....
GNOME Shell & Mutter 45 Betas Released (www.phoronix.com)
Intel Gets Hogwarts Legacy Running On Linux Driver By Pretending Not To Be Intel Graphics (www.phoronix.com)
Intel Gets Hogwarts Legacy Running On Linux Driver By Pretending Not To Be Intel Graphics (www.phoronix.com)
Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Merged Into Mesa 23.3 (www.phoronix.com)
Good news for AMD Linux users - fTPM RNG will soon be disabled (www.phoronix.com)
For those out of the loop, some AMD users have been suffering from stuttering issues caused by the AMD fTPM random number generator. A firmware/BIOS update appears to fix the issue for some users, but not others, leading to more bug reports being sent in. Last week, Linus Torvalds said “let’s just disable the stupid fTPM...
GNOME 45's Mutter Implements A Dedicated KMS Thread (www.phoronix.com)
Red Hat’s Jonas Ådahl began working on this Mutter KMS kernel thread implementation a half-year ago and finally it recently was merged for the GNOME 45 release due out in September. By having this dedicated thread there should be lower latency cursor movements and possible avoidance of cursor stutter. It should be a latency...
FEX-Emu 2308 Continues Striving To Be "The Greatest x86/x86-64 Emulator On Linux" (www.phoronix.com)
FEX-Emu 2308 Continues Striving To Be "The Greatest x86/x86-64 Emulator On Linux" (www.phoronix.com)
KDE Neon Experimental Lets You Run Plasma 6 With KF6 Apps Today (www.phoronix.com)
XFS File-System Maintainer Stepping Down (www.phoronix.com)
The Most Prolific Packager For Alpine Linux Is Stepping Away (www.phoronix.com)
Steam On Linux(1.96%) Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS(1.84%) (www.phoronix.com)
Steam On Linux(1.96%) Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS(1.84%) (www.phoronix.com)
Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS (www.phoronix.com)
According to these new numbers from Valve, the Linux customer base is up to 1.96%, or a 0.52% jump over June! That’s a huge jump with normally just moving 0.1% or so in either direction most months… It’s also near an all-time high on a percentage basis going back to the early days of Steam on Linux when it had around a 2%...
Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS (www.phoronix.com)
Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS (www.phoronix.com)
Ubuntu Shifting To A "4/2" Week Cycle For Shipping Stable Kernel Updates (www.phoronix.com)
Moving forward the aim is for Ubuntu kernel updates to be done on a 4-week update cycle while having a follow-on release at the 2-week midpoint to provide any critical/high CVE fixes or any other critical fixes. In effect, a kernel update every two weeks but that mid-point release will be reserved just for more urgent items that...
The Most Prolific Packager For Alpine Linux Is Stepping Away (www.phoronix.com)
Alice “psykose” who is easily responsible for the highest number of commits per author over the past year has decided to step down from maintaining her packages....
LXD Maintainership Being Limited To Canonical Employees (www.phoronix.com)
AMD Unveils The Ryzen 9 7945HX3D For Laptops With 3D V-Cache (www.phoronix.com)
AMD is releasing (what appears to be, still need all the reviews to come in) a beast of a mobile processor. 16 cores, 32 threads, and 128MB of L3 cache.