Tag: news
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Linux on Car Safety & Driver Assistance
Linux can finally run your car’s safety systems and driver-assistance features.Increasingly, our cars will be controlled by a small number of powerful computers. There’s a new Linux distro on the scene today, and it’s a bit specialized. Its development was led by the automotive electronics supplier Elektrobit, and it’s the first open source OS that…
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Intel QAT Driver Preps Live Migration Support For 6.10
Written by Michael Larabel in Intel on 4 April 2024 at 06:13 AM EDT Queued up recently into the crypto subsystem’s development branch ahead of the Linux 6.10 merge window is support for VFIO live migration with Intel’s QuickAssist Technology (QAT) driver. Intel QAT can be very useful for accelerating compression and encryption with supported…
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Timeline of the xz Open Source attack
Editor’s Note: Linking this very important post-mortem of how a malicious group of hackers created a backdoor on an important OS repository. Full source is at the bottom. Thanks to Kevin G. for sending this to us. Over a period of over two years, an attacker using the name “Jia Tan” worked as a diligent,…
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CERN’s Proton Mail for Linux
Proton Mail has released a brand new desktop app for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The app means subscribers to the privacy-focused mail service no longer need to use a web browser to read, send, and manage their mail. For privacy-conscious folks, Proton needs little introduction. Formed by a group of scientists and engineers who met…
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NVIDIA vs. AMD CPU Workstations
NVIDIA GH200 72 Core Grace CPU Performance vs. AMD Ryzen Threadripper Workstations, to be exact. Earlier this month I posted some initial CPU benchmarks of the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper up against AMD EPYC Zen 4 and Intel Xeon Emerald Rapids processors. That was a very interesting battle and showed the interesting capabilities of the…
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Framework 16 on Linux
Framework Laptop 16 Delivers Great Linux Support & Performance, Excellent Customizability. The review embargo has now expired on the Framework Laptop 16, the latest innovative and upgradeable laptop from this company that has made quite a name for itself with modular and user-upgradeable laptop designs for both AMD and Intel. The new Framework Laptop 16…
