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Linux Fixes Performance Bug Affecting Qualcomm Ath11k & Ath12k WiFi Drivers
1+ hour, 27+ min ago (218+ words) Sent out today were the networking subsystem fixes for the ongoing Linux 7.0 kernel. These networking fixes in time for Sunday's Linux 7.0-rc7 release include addressing performance issues within the Qualcomm Ath11k and Ath12k WiFi drivers that have always existed ever since the drivers…...
Microsoft's Newest Open-Source Project: Runtime Security For AI Agents
2+ hour, 17+ min ago (371+ words) Microsoft today announced their newest open-source (MIT-licensed) software project.. the Agent Governance Toolkit. Microsoft is trying their hand at coming up with runtime security governance for autonomous AI agents... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors…...
Intel Posts Fourth Version Of Cache Aware Scheduling For Linux
6+ hour, 23+ min ago (398+ words) Just over one year ago Intel Linux engineers began working on cache-aware load balancing for Linux or more commonly referred to as Cache Aware Scheduling. The functionality for helping modern Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC processors especially hasn't yet been…...
IBM Lays Out Patches For ARM Virtualization Acceleration On IBM Z Servers
7+ hour, 12+ min ago (208+ words) Following this morning's announcement of IBM working with Arm on "dual architecture" hardware, we have some more details on at least what's happening from the software side... It's improving Arm virtualization on IBM Z Systems (s390)... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics…...
AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" Enjoys Great Performance Gains With Latest Linux Software
7+ hour, 38+ min ago (303+ words) With the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release due out in three weeks, I have been re-testing a number of different devices on this newest Ubuntu release. One of the most significant improvements to note was when running the Framework Desktop with Ryzen…...
CentOS Launches Accelerated Infrastructure Enablement For Driving NVIDIA AI Factories
9+ hour, 24+ min ago (382+ words) The CentOS project has established the Accelerated Infrastructure Enablement "AIE" special interest group with a focus on providing a "fast lane" for "in-flight" patches. This CentOS AIE SIG is particularly focused on carrying the code needed for enabling NVIDIA AI…...
IBM Collaborating With Arm For Dual-Architecture Hardware
9+ hour, 20+ min ago (181+ words) IBM announced today a strategic collaboration with Arm around new dual-architecture hardware... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals IBM Collaborating With Arm For Dual-Architecture Hardware Michael Larabel is the principal…...
Proposed Wine Code Uses Zink For OpenGL-On-Vulkan By Default
11+ hour, 37+ min ago (387+ words) A CodeWeavers engineer opened a merge request yesterday for Wine to use Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver by default. This would build Zink as a Windows Portable Executable (PE) for allowing OpenGL to go straight to the Vulkan API with the…...
KTransformers Adds AVX2 MoE Support For Viable Performance On CPUs Without AMX/AVX-512
11+ hour, 48+ min ago (229+ words) KTransformers 0.5.3 released today for this framework for efficient inferencing and fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) with a focus on CPU-GPU heterogeneous computing. With this release, KTransformers 0.5.3 is now more applicable for CPUs lacking Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) and AVX…...
Libinput Hit By Worrying Security Issues With Its Lua Plug-In System
17+ hour, 50+ min ago (381+ words) Libinput devised a Lua-based plug-in system for modifying devices/events. The Lua plug-in support was introduced last year with libinput 1.30 but unfortunately some security issues have now come to light with the implementation... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux…...