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AMD's Preferred Core feature continues working its way toward the Linux kernel for this functionality that's been around since Zen 2.

The Intel Platform Environment Control Interface (PECI) changes have been prepped for the upcoming Linux 6.6 kernel cycle and include extending support for including 4th Gen Xeon Scalable 'Sapphire Rapids' server platforms.

Mozilla developers are celebrating that they are now faster than Google Chrome with the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark, although that test has been superseded by the JetStream benchmark.

Last week the AMD Inception vulnerability was made public as a speculative side channel attack affecting Zen processors and different mitigation options based on the CPU generation.

Devuan is still alive and well for those wanting to run Debian GNU/Linux but without systemd

Chrome 116 is out today as the newest stable version of Google's web browser.

In addition to all the interesting open-source graphics driver updates coming with Linux 6.6 like AMD FreeSync Panel Replay, Nouveau uAPI additions for NVK, Intel PSR for old laptops, and many other GPU driver changes, the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem with its AI accelerator 'accel' framework/subsystem is rolling out initial support for the VPU4 coming with Intel Lunar Lake processors.

Following last week's AMD Inception vulnerability another AMD Zen CPU bug came to light and that was performing a divide by zero on Zen 1 could end up leaking data with this DIV0 speculation bug

While Linux 6.1 added the initial Rust infrastructure as an alternative programming language for writing new kernel modules, so far as of Linux 6.5 much of the upstreaming effort has been around adding new abstractions and supporting additional subsystems for making the Rust capabilities in the kernel more complete

With the upcoming Linux 6.6 cycle another exciting change was recently queued up within the block subsystem's 'for-next' branch: IO_uring futex/futexv support.