With the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel, AF_ALG is being deprecated in full. Eric Biggers explains in a patch queued to the kernel's cryptographic subsystem "cryptodev" tree:
"AF_ALG is almost
Linux 7.2 Proceeding To Deprecate AF_ALG Due To "Massive Attack Surface", Drops Offloading
With the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel, AF_ALG is being deprecated in full. Eric Biggers explains in a patch queued to the kernel's cryptographic subsystem "cryptodev" tree:
Phoronix Marking 22 Years Of Linux Hardware Coverage This Week
Over the past 22 years on Phoronix there have been more than 5,600 original Linux hardware reviews / benchmark articles and more than 50,200 original news articles on hardware, open-source, and Linux topics. If you enjoy the daily flow of original content on Phoronix, for the 22nd birthday week, there is a Phoronix Premium special.
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Some Elements Of Intel APX Not Proving Beneficial On Nova Lake / Diamond Rapids
Intel compiler engineer Hongyu Wang upstreamed two patches so far today for additional tuning to the existing Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids targets in this prominent open-source compiler. Interestingly the tuning is to avoid some attributes of the new APX functionality for portions not panning out performance wise. APX is a big upgrade to
NBD-VRAM Provides Swap Space On Your NVIDIA GeForce GPUs
Advertised primarily for those with laptops having soldered memory and needing more system memory space while also having a consumer NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPU in the laptop, NBD-VRAM provides a pathway to carving out some swap space from that vRAM.
NBD-VRAM was published yesterday and consists of a small daemon to allocate vRAM via the NVIDIA CUDA driver API and then it is exposed using
FreeBSD 15.1-RC2 Restores PadLock RNG For VIA & Zhaoxin CPUs
FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE was supposed to be out tomorrow, 2 June, but is now pushed back to 9 June due to the emergence of 15.1-RC2 this weekend. FreeBSD 15.1-RC2 brings some last minute fixes, including the restoring of the VIA PadLock RNG driver on FreeBSD. While VIA x86
NVIDIA Announces RTX Spark Superchip For Laptops & Desktops
Building off the foundation established by their GB10 Superchip, the NVIDIA RTX Spark Superchip offers up to a 6,144 core Blackwell GPU paired with up to 20 Arm cores and up to 128GB of unified memory.
The RTX Spark is being heavily promoted for AI workflows while being game-ready and also capable of delivering all-day battery life.
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AI-Driven Security Disclosures, NVIDIA Vera & Linux 7.1 Features That Made An Exciting May
May was exciting on both the hardware and Linux software fronts from the NVIDIA Vera CPU being exciting to benchmark to a lot of varied open-source activity on the software side. Less
Intel Xeon 6+ & Intel Ethernet E835 Launch
Last year at Tech Tour Arizona, Intel announced Clearwater Forest as the Xeon 6+ series . Details were rather light then while for Computex, Intel is announcing that Xeon 6+ is now "launching" beginning tomorrow, 1 June. In addition to Xeon 6+, the new Intel Ethernet E835 is also launching while there are updates on Crescent Island and Diamond Rapids.
Xeon 6+ Clearwater Forest is Intel's new E-core server platform succeeding Sierra Forest and built upon Intel 18A.
Dell Uses Intel Wildcat Lake To Deliver Their Cheapest XPS 13 Ever
The new Dell XPS 13 at $599~699 USD is easily their most affordable XPS 13 laptop ever. It is also their thinnest and lightest
AMD Announces Radeon RX 9070 GRE, Ryzen AI Max PRO 400 Series
AMD is kicking off the busy Computex 2026 week with some new product announcements. The embargo is now up so meet the Radeon RX 9070 GRE and other new wares coming out this summer and later in the year from AMD.
On the graphics card side, AMD is using Computex 2026 for announcing the Radeon RX 9070 GRE graphics card as a step below the Radeon RX 9070 / 9070 XT.