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Motivated by a 25% performance degradation seen on an Intel Xeon Scalable dual socket server due to Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS), Red Hat's Waiman Long has been working on a patch series to update the IBRS handling in different conditions for affected Intel processors on Linux.

A Phoronix reader recently published a guide that at its heart is a set of commands aimed at boosting the performance of SteamOS on the AMD APU powered Steam Deck.

GNU Binutils has added support for the ARCv3 32-bit and 64-bit CPU architecture.

Rust bindings are coming to the Linux kernel's workqueue (WQ) infrastructure that is used for deferring work to a kernel thread for asynchronous process execution.

Adding to the list of notable features coming with Mesa 23.3 later this quarter is enabling delta color compression (DCC) for multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) images on AMD RDNA3 (GFX11) graphics processors.

Today the review embargo lifts on the first AMD-powered Framework laptop

A nasty vulnerability has been made public today concerning Glibc's dynamic loader that can lead to full root privileges being obtained by local users

It was a decade ago that a security researcher commented on X.Org Server security being even 'worse than it looks' and that the GLX code for example was '80,000 lines of sheer terror' and hundreds of bugs being uncovered throughout the codebase

As written about last month, AMD Linux engineers have been working on PMF Linux driver support for a 'Smart PC Solutions Builder'

After Steam on Linux usage topped to nearly 2% in July with the phenomenal success of the Steam Deck and with greater marketshare than Apple macOS, in August it took a dip and now the September numbers are out and points to a second consecutive month of the Linux percentage receding.