ISPC 1.28 brings some minor language changes, now supports ISPC usage as a C++ library for embedding ISPC compilation directly into applications, Python integration enhancements
Intel ISPC 1.28 Adds Optimized Support For AMD Zen 4 & Zen 5 CPUs
ISPC 1.28 brings some minor language changes, now supports ISPC usage as a C++ library for embedding ISPC compilation directly into applications, Python integration enhancements
Intel IDXD Accelerator Driver Cleaned Up For Some "Not So Happy Code Paths"
Intel engineer Vinicius Costa Gomes took over earlier this year as the new IDXD driver maintainer after the departure of the driver's former maintainer from the company. In going through the IDXD code for the DSA accelerators, Vinicius recently uncovered some "not so happy code
Clearing The Last ReiserFS Remnants: Documentation Cleanse Of The Defunct File-System
David Sterba of SUSE sent out the patch today after spotting some ReiserFS remnants within the Linux kernel documentation as well as some tooling
FFmpeg 8.0 Merges OpenAI Whisper Filter For Automatic Speech Recognition
For those unaware, Whisper is an automatic speech recognition model trained on a very large dataset and has proven to be extremely capable. FFmpeg 8.0 can be built with the "--enable-whisper" library when the Whisper.cpp library is
WSL2 Vulnerability Could Lead To Elevating Local Privileges
CVE-2025-53788 was made public yesterday as part of the monthly Patch Tuesday dance. CVE-2025-53788 comes down to being a
xf86-input-mouse 2.0.0 Released 12 Years After v1.9 Mouse Driver
The xf86-input-mouse driver is not used by Linux systems with the xf86-input-libinput and xf86-input-evdev drivers being the better solutions there, but the X.Org mouse driver is used on other platforms like the BSDs, Solaris, and others as
GCC Developers Discuss Dropping Poorly Supported, Niche CPU Architectures
GCC developers have begun discussing potentially deprecating some of the other CPU ports that rarely ever see new code activity. There are also known limitations with some of them, not supporting modern GCC features, and just rotting away without any active maintainership. The ports/architectures under discussion are:
The "epiphany" port for
Go 1.25 Released With Experimental GC Yielding 10~40% Overhead Reduction
Go 1.25 ships a new experimental garbage collector designed to improve performance particularly around small objects for better locality and CPU scalability. In real-world workloads the Go developers are reporting a 10-40% reduction in garbage collection overhead. The garbage
Linux Address Space Isolation "ASI" Revived After Lowering 70% Performance Hit To 13%
Google engineer Brendan Jackman is back to bringing up ASI to
Intel CPU Microcode Updates Released For Six High Severity Vulnerabilities
New CPU microcode was released today for Arrow Lake, Xeon Scalable Gen3 and newer through Xeon 6 Sierra Forest / Granite Rapids, Xeon D-17xx / Xeon D-27xx, Core Ultra 200V Lunar Lake, and Core Gen 13 Raptor Lake.
There are a number of functional issues resolved in the new CPU microcode plus six new high severity