Google Bringing WebAssembly Extensions To Network Proxies
In addition to WebAssembly's growing presence outside of the web browser thanks to various desktop run-times and interesting use-cases, WebAssembly is also popping up in other areas. Google has been working on WebAssembly support for extensions within network proxies typically reserved for C/C++ or the likes of Lua scripts...
The Brutal Performance Impact From Mitigating The LVI Vulnerability
On Tuesday the Load Value Injection (LVI) attack was disclosed by Intel and security researchers as a new class of transient-execution attacks and could lead to injecting data into a victim program and in turn stealing data, including from within SGX enclaves. While Intel has publicly stated they don't believe the LVI attack to be practical, one of their open-source compiler wizards did go ahead and add mitigation options to the GNU Assembler as part of the GCC toolchain. Here are benchmarks showing the performance impact of enabling
Debian 11 "Bullseye" To Begin Code Freeze In Early 2021
The Debian release team has published their tentative freeze dates for the next major version of their Linux operating system, Debian 11 Bullseye...
More AMD Family 19h (Zen 3) Code Trickling Into Linux 5.7
We continue to see bits here and there of AMD Family 19h / Zen 3 support coming together for the mainline Linux kernel...
GCC 9.3 Compiler Released With Over 150 Bug Fixes
Following last week's release of GCC 8.4, the GCC 9.3 compiler is out in offering the latest fixes to the newer (and current) GCC 9 compiler series...
Turnip Vulkan Driver Lands Transform Feedback Support
The Turnip Mesa Vulkan driver for Qualcomm Adreno graphics processors can now handle transform feedback...
FreeBSD To Sponsor Work For 802.11ac Support
While Windows and Linux have seen good 802.11ac "WiFi 5" support and these days are focused on 802.11ax "WiFi 6" with the latest wireless chipsets, FreeBSD is still tackling 802.11ac. But the FreeBSD Foundation is prepared to soon begin sponsoring development work on ironing out their 802.11ac support...
Intel Bay Trail Continues To See Linux Fixes In 2020 - This Time For Time Drifting
It's been seven years since Intel launched the "Bay Trail" Atom processors and the Linux fixes for it and the succeeding Cherry Trail continue to materialize for the kernel...
Peer-To-Peer DMA-BUF Support Being Ironed Out, Patches Pending For AMDGPU
One of the latest patch series being worked on by long-time open-source AMD Linux graphics driver developer Christian König is P2P DMA-BUF support...
Wasmer 0.16 Released For Running WebAssembly Programs Anywhere
Wasmer 0.16 is released as the newest version of this "universal WebAssembly runtime" for running WebAssembly programs on the desktop that could in turn be written in a number of different programming languages...