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...


Open Source LLM|3D print

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...


Apple Silicon|Intel

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...


Apple Silicon|Intel

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...


Open Source LLM

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...