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Intel Releases Updated CPU Microcode Due To "Training Solo"

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 May

Following Monday's public disclosure of the "Training Solo" security disclosure for this set of issues affecting multiple generations of Intel processors, new Intel CPU microcode has been released for Linux users as part of the mitigation process...

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Haiku OS Adds Support For More AMD Polaris GPUs & Other Changes In April

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 May

The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project has published their April 2025 progress report...

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Training Solo: New Set Of Serious Security Vulnerabilities Exposed For Intel & Arm CPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 May

The VUSec security researchers are at it again... The embargo is now lifted on another set of of security vulnerabilities affecting Intel processors as well as Arm core designs. This new vulnerability is dubbed Training Solo...

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AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux Benchmarks: Outright Incredible Performance

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 May

We finally have AMD's Strix Halo in the lab for benchmarking! HP has kindly sent over their ZBook Ultra 14-inch G1a mobile workstation: it's a beast being powered by the top-end AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 SoC with 16 cores / 32 threads and powerful integrated Radeon 8060S graphics, 128GB of system memory, a nice 14-inch 2.8K display, and other top-end features to provide a dominating laptop powerhouse. In today's article are the very initial benchmarks of the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Strix Halo SoC under Linux with a focus on the CPU capabilities: a separate article also out today is looking at the AMD Radeon 8060S graphics on Linux.

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AMD Radeon 8060S Linux Graphics Performance With Strix Halo

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 May

As shown in today's article the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux performance is incredible with its 16 Zen 5 cores delivering staggering laptop / mobile workstation performance with a 55 Watt default TDP. But that's only half the magic of Strix Halo, with the other aspect being the very capable integrated RDNA 3.5 graphics with unified memory support. Given this being an equally interesting topic for Linux users considering a Strix Halo laptop or desktop, this article is centered around the integrated Radeon 8060S graphics support and performance under Linux.

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Updated Nouveau Driver Patches For NVIDIA Hopper & Blackwell GPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 May

At the end of April was the open-source surprise of NVIDIA posting Nouveau Linux driver patches for their Hopper and Blackwell GPUs. This comes to complement their official (open-source but out of tree) kernel driver support for these newer NVIDIA GPUs and in the absence of the modern Rust-based NOVA Linux kernel driver not being in working shape yet on the mainline kernel. An updated version of these Nouveau driver patches for NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell GPUs were posted overnight...

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Support For New RISC-V SiFive Vendor Extensions On The Way For Linux 6.16

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 May

Queued within the development tree for the RISC-V processor code for the Linux kernel is supporting several new vendor-specific ISA extensions for SiFive RISC-V CPU cores...

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DragonFlyBSD 6.4.2 Released With Fixes To Help QEMU & Chrome

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 May

While it took two and a half years for DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1 to materialize from DragonFlyBSD 6.4, only one week passed since that recent v6.4.1 release to now see v6.4.2...

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Shotcut 25.05 Video Editor Working Toward HDR Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 May

Shotcut 25.05 was released on Sunday as the newest feature release for this non-linear, open-source video editing software...