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OpenBLAS 0.3.32 is now available for this optimized open-source Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms "BLAS" library. Notable with the OpenBLAS 0.3.32 release is improving CPU auto-detection for newer Intel processors...

Back in February AMD engineers introduced a new GFX1170 GPU target in LLVM for their AMDGPU shader compiler and was marked with new "RDNA 4m" branding. It's part of the GFX11 family associated with RDNA3 but carrying this new "4m" branding. In follow-up commits they made further ISA changes distinguishing it from existing RDNA 3 GPUs. Now there are two more RDNA 4m targets being added...

KubeCon Europe is running this week in Amsterdam and NVIDIA used the event to talk up their open-source work around AI and newest open-source contributions...

The GTK 4.0 toolkit released in December 2020 while the GTK3 toolkit has continued to be maintained given a lot of software still relying on that older version. GTK 3.24.52 was released yesterday and with this version it's now shifting its release cadence to just one new update per year...

Čtvrtý článek o vývoji pro počítače Atari je rozdělen na dvě části. V části první si ukážeme vyplňování paměti i přesunů bloků pouze s využitím osmibitových registrů. Pak se začneme zabývat grafickým subsystémem Atari.

Following today's article exploring the performance benefits of Intel Flexible Return and Event Delivery "FRED" with Panther Lake and also pointing out the rather obscure nature of FRED being disabled-by-default, an Intel Linux kernel engineer posted a patch to now enable FRED by default for better performance...

Cloudflare's technical blog posts about their hardware and software efforts are always a treat to read. Their latest fascinating technical content is on their newest "Gen 13" server platform based around AMD EPYC Turin where they are now achieving 2x throughput and 50% better performance-per-Watt thanks to these latest-generation AMD EPYC server processors paired with software improvements too...

Longtime Linux desktop users will likely remember the glorious days of the XMMS music player inspired by Winamp. It's been about two decades since the last official release but thanks to AI there is now a modern port of the codebase to GTK4 and GStreamer/PipeWire...

With Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" laptop SoCs, the Xe3-based Arc B390 graphics and much improved CPU performance capture much of the spotlight. One new capability with Panther Lake that isn't featured as much though is the new FRED capability with Flexible Return and Event Delivery. Today's Intel Panther Lake testing is looking at the very interesting performance impact of FRED on Linux.

Firefox 149.0 release binaries are now available with a wide assortment of improvements for this month's update to the cross-platform Mozilla web browser solution...

A change to the Linux kernel's extensible scheduler class "sched_ext" for allowing nifty scheduler implementations via BPF programs will begin to prioritize SMT siblings to help with better performance...

Qt 6.11 is out as the latest version of this cross-platform toolkit used by the KDE desktop and widely by both open-source and closed-source applications...

Canonical announced today that they have joined the Rust Foundation as a Gold Member...

One of the core Linux infrastructure improvements that AMD engineers have been working on recently is pghot as a hot-page tracking and promotion subsystem. This proposed addition to the Linux kernel could be quite beneficial especially for those using modern AMD EPYC servers with CXL and multiple memory tiers...

Merged overnight for Mesa 26.1 is enabling the Arm Ethos U85 NPU within the EthosU Gallium3D driver so that with Mesa's TEFLON framework can begin taking on AI workloads...

V dnešním bezpečnostním přehledu se podíváme na šíření malwaru na Steamu, další kritickou zranitelnost v telnetu, íránskou odvetu USA v kyberprostoru a sankce uvalené Evropskou unií za útoky na její členy.

Společnost SUSE by v blízké budoucnosti mohla být opět na prodej. Německo nařídilo své státní správě používat výhradně otevřené formáty. Vyšla Fedora Asahi Remix 43. Firma System76 uvedla novou generaci stolního počítače Thelio Mira.

Rád bych vám představil novou ORM knihovnu Ujorm3, o které se domnívám, že poráží své konkurenty svojí jednoduchostí a nízkou režií. Cílem je nabídnout spolehlivý, bezpečný a snadno pochopitelný nástroj.

Linus Torvalds just issued Linux 7.0-rc5 as we inch toward the stable Linux 7.0 kernel release in April...

D7VK is the open-source project that began as a Direct3D 7 implementation atop the Vulkan API for Linux gamers and with time expanded to support all the way back to Direct3D 3. Out today is D7VK 1.6 with continuing to enhance this D3D compatibility layer atop Vulkan for enhancing retro/vintage gaming on Linux...