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AMD XDNA Linux Driver Preps For New Ryzen AI "NPU3A" Revision Yesterday the GitHub-hosted AMD XDNA driver code saw a new tagged release as version 202610.2.21.17. That itself wasn't too interesting but while diving into there is new yet-to-be-merged code for a new "NPU3A" revision to their NPU3 IP in Ryzen AI... |
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Apple Plans To Open-Source An LLVM Tool To Security Harden Large C++ Codebases An engineer on Apple's static security tools team announced publicly that they have prototyped a tool to apply security hardening across entire C++ codebases. Ultimately their plan is to open-source and upstream this static analysis based tool into LLVM... |
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AMD Updates Zen 3 / Zen 4 CPU Microcode For Systems Lacking Microcode Signing Fix AMD this week uploaded new Family 19h CPU microcode for Zen 3 and Zen 4 processors to the linux-firmware.git repoository that in turn is pulled by the Linux distributions for offering the latest firmware/microcode to users... |
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SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 Announced: "Enterprise Linux That Integrates Agentic AI" SUSE today formally announced SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16. Given we are in the year 2025, SUSE is heavy on hyping up AI capabilities with SLES 16... |
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Arm Ethos NPU Accelerator Driver Expected To Be Merged For Linux 6.19 The upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel cycle is now expected to introduce the new "ethosu" accelerator driver for supporting the Arm Ethos U65/U85 neural processing unit IP... |
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Red Hat Affirms Plans To Distribute NVIDIA CUDA Across RHEL, Red Hat AI & OpenShift Following Canonical announcing plans to better support NVIDIA CUDA on Ubuntu Linux and make it easier to install as well as SUSE better supporting CUDA along similar lines, Red Hat today affirmed their plans to do the same. Red Hat will be making it easier to use the NVIDIA CUDA stack across RHEL, Red Hat AI, and OpenShift products... |
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TrueNAS 25.10 Released With NVMe-oF Support, OpenZFS Performance Improvements TrueNAS 25.10 was released by iX systems today as the newest feature release of this Linux-based platform for network attached storage (NAS) devices and other storage appliances... |
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Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0.20251021 Pulls In AppArmor & Other Updates Microsoft today released Azure Linux 3.0.20251021 as the latest update to their in-house Linux distribution... |
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Three More X.Org Server & XWayland Security Vulnerabilities Made Public The Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative has uncovered three more security vulnerabilities affecting the X.Org Server and the derived XWayland source code... |
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Intel SGX "EUPDATESVN" Support Ready For Linux 6.19 As A Feature Since Ice Lake An improvement to Intel SGX slated for Linux 6.18 is supporting the EUPDATESVN found on Intel CPUs since the Ice Lake generation. EUPDATESVN allows for updating the security SVN version after run-time patching for addressing any Intel SGX vulnerabilities to avoid having to carry out a platform reboot... |
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Initial Intel Crescent Island "CRI" Support Being Submitted For Linux 6.19 Earlier this month Intel announced Crescent Island as a Xe3P graphics card with 160GB of vRAM optimized for AI inferencing at the enterprise scale. Crescent Island isn't expected to begin sampling until H2'2026, but already for the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel initial Crescent Island support is being submitted for the Xe kernel graphics driver... |
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Fedora Linux 43 Now Available For Download It's Fedora 43 release day! This latest installment of Fedora Linux is now available for download with Fedora Workstation 43 using the GNOME 49 desktop, the modern Linux 6.17 kernel powering this distribution release, and many exciting improvements and other leading-edge software updates powering this Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution... |
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Apple Silicon USB3 Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.19 The upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel cycle is expected to land initial support for USB3 with Apple Silicon devices... |
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DM-VERITY Change For Linux 6.19: "On Some CPUs This Nearly Doubles Hashing Performance" For those making use of Device Mapper's DM-VERITY target for transparent integrity checking of block devices, the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel has an enticing performance optimization en route that for some processors can lead to nearly doubling the hashing performance... |
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59 Patches Allow Finally Building Glibc With LLVM's Clang Compiler Linaro engineer Adhemerval Zanella recently sent out a set of 59 patches to allow building the GNU C Library "glibc" with the LLVM Clang compiler as an alternative to GCC... |