GNOME Shell To Ship New App For Managing Extensions
GNOME 3.36 will begin shipping a new application as part of the GNOME Shell to manage desktop extensions...
Benchmarking The Performance Overhead To The Linux Kernel Runtime Guard
Following recent discussions about Openwall's Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) and the Whonix spin on LKRG for Debian systems and more, here are some benchmarks showing the performance overhead to this run-time integrity checking of the Linux kernel that aims to fend off security vulnerability exploits.
NVIDIA GTC Conference Turns Into Online Event Over Coronavirus Concerns
The latest setback from Coronavirus / COVID-19 concerns is NVIDIA's flagship GTC conference no longer happening in San Jose later this month...
FuzzBench: Google Gets Into Fuzzer Benchmarking
Google's latest work on the code fuzzing front for improving code security is FuzzBench, a benchmark for fuzzers...
Blender 2.83 To Be An LTS Release, Blender 3.0 Next Summer
Given the explosive growth of the Blender 3D modeling software in recent times and with receiving more sponsors/supporters and more organizations beginning to make use of this cross-platform, open-source software, the Blender release team has put out their plans for the next few years...
DMA-BUF Explicit Sync Improvements Being Discussed To Help Vulkan, Other Modern Users
Intel's lead developer of the ANV Vulkan Linux driver started a discussion last week about adding an API to DMA-BUF for importing/exporting of sync files as part of allowing for explicit synchronization capabilities in better handling of modern APIs from user-space...
Marvell Announces New OCTEON TX2 + OCTEON Fusion CPUs
Marvell today announced the new OCTEON Fusion processors and a new line in the OCTEON TX2 family...
Intel's Linux Media Driver Preparing For 20.1 Release, Game Streaming Optimizations
Intel's open-source team working on their media driver for VA-API Linux video acceleration on HD/UHD/Iris Graphics is preparing for its first release of 2020...
RADV SQTT Profiling Support Expanded To Support GFX10/Navi
Last week we saw the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver add SQ Thread Trace support for this hardware block found on AMD GPUs. The SQTT block is used for performance profiling and now the RADV support has been extended to handle GFX10/Navi...
OpenBLAS 0.3.9 Released With More AVX-512 Tuning, Arm Neoverse N1 Support
OpenBLAS 0.3.8 was released shy of a month ago for this popular Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms implementation while now has been succeeded by OpenBLAS 0.3.9...