As announced last month, PCI Express 8.0 is aiming for 256 GT/s speeds for allowing 1 TB/s bandwidth in an x16 configuration. In working towards the goals of PCIe 8.0, the PCI-SIG announced today that the v0.3 specification has been released to members.

PCI Express 8.0 v0.3 received workgroup approval and is now available to PCI-SIG members. The v0.3 milestone is for the first review draft of the

Rust 1.90 is out today as the newest feature release for this popular programming language.

Most exciting for Linux x86_64 users with Rust 1.90 is defaulting to using the LLD linker for faster linking times during the build process of Rust software.

Rust 1.90 using LLD by default on Linux x86_64 should lead to a significantly faster experience when building Rust software. Using LLD can yield as much as a 40% reduction in end-to

Python 3.14-rc3 is out today as the final test preview ahead of next month's official Python 3.14 stable release.

Python 3.14 is gearing up for its official release on 7 October. Python 3.14 brings many great changes including the free-threaded Python being officially supported, multiple interpreters in the standard library, Zstd compression module, deferring the evaluation of annotations, a zero-overhead external debugger for CPython, an improved C API for configuring Python,

NVIDIA is making a $5 billion investment into Intel and the two companies will work together on custom data center and client CPUs.

The surprising news today is that NVIDIA and Intel are collaborating to jointly develop data center CPUs and PC products.

Intel products will adopt NVIDIA NVLink support. In addition, they will develop NVIDIA-custom x86 CPUs for AI infrastructure and more.

On the personal computing side, Intel will develop new SoCs that incorporate NVIDIA RTX CPU chiplets for having x86 RTX SoCs for a range

Following the recent release of Linux Mint 22.2 as the Linux Mint project's premiere operating system currently built atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, today marks the beta release of Linux Mint Debian Edition 7.

Linux Mint Debian Edition "LMDE" continues to be the project's hedge in case they are forced or otherwise decide in the future to not be based on Ubuntu itself. LMDE is much like the Ubuntu-based Linux Mint but with using the upstream Debian packages as its base. With

The Fedora Forge has been soft-launched for Fedora contributors to help modernize the development and collaboration tools around the Linux distribution.

Fedora Forge is built atop the Forgejo open-source and self-hosted lightweight software forge. Fedora Forge will be the dedicated place for official Fedora Project work for Fedora sub-projects and Special Interest Groups (SIGs).

Initially the Fedora Release Engineering, Fedora Council, and FESCo are moving over to the Fedora Forge while over a phased roll-out additional teams will be moving to the Fedora

A new round of platform-drivers-x86 "fixes" were submitted today for the nearly-complete Linux 6.17 kernel cycle. While on the fixes stage of the kernel, the x86 platform driver changes can be interesting when it comes to new device IDs for enabling new products late in the kernel cycle.

This round of x86 platform driver changes ahead of Linux 6.17-rc7 this Sunday is adding some new quirks and device IDs.

First up, the

One of the new SoCs to be supported by the upstream Linux 6.18 kernel is the Microchip LAN969x.

The Microchip LAN969x SoC is used by various Ethernet switches with bandwidth capabilities ranging from 48 to 102 Gbps and up to a total of 30 ports. In turn with these capabilities the LAN969x powers Ethernet switches ranging from 30 ports with Gigabit speeds or 22 ports with 2.5 Gbps connectivity down to 10 ports with