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      Bug Bounties May Sound Great, But Aren't Always Handled Well

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 May, 2023

    Bug bounty programs setup by large corporations to reward and recognize security researchers for properly reporting new bugs and security vulnerabilities is a great concept, but in practice isn't always handled well. Security researcher Adam Zabrocki recently shared the troubles he encountered in the bug bounty handling at Google for Chrome OS and in turn for Intel with it having been an i915 Linux kernel graphics driver vulnerability...
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      Ampere Computing Announces AmpereOne With Up to 192 Cores Per Socket

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 May, 2023

    Ampere Computing announced this morning that their AmpereOne family of processors have entered production and provided additional details on these in-house designed Arm server processors.
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      sdl12-compat Gets More Games Working For This SDL1-On-SDL2 Compatibility Layer

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 May, 2023

    The sdl12-compat project that implements the SDL 1.2 API/ABI atop SDL 2.x interfaces for better game compatibility on modern Linux systems is out today with a new pre-release...
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      NVIDIA Announces The GeForce RTX 4060 Series

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 May, 2023

    NVIDIA today announced the GeForce RTX 4060 series consisting of the $399 RTX 4060 Ti 8GB while in July an RTX 4060 Ti 16GB version will come along with a $299 RTX 4060...
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      The Progress With KDE Plasma 6's KWin On HDR Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 May, 2023

    Following last month's Red Hat hosted HDR hackfest that brought together many Linux desktop stakeholders from GPU driver developers to desktop environment developers, KDE developer Xaver Hugl has shared an update on the progress being made for high dynamic range (HDR) display support from the KWin side...
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      New Maintainer Steps Up For GCC Compiler's MIPS CPU Port

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 May, 2023

    With development of the MIPS architecture having officially ended two years ago in favor of focusing on RISC-V for future CPU designs and the overall decline of that CPU architecture, it's been years since the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) has seen its MIPS code well maintained. However, now a capable developer has stepped up willing to serve as the GCC maintainer for MIPS...
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      AlmaLinux 8.8 Released For Those Relying On RHEL8

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 May, 2023

    Earlier this month Red Hat released RHEL 9.2 and at the same time they also released RHEL 8.8 for those continuing to rely on the stable RHEL8 series. AlmaLinux managed to provide a same-day release of AlmaLinux 9.2 while now one week later they have also shipped AlmaLinux 8.8...
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      Steam Client Beta Fixes NVIDIA HiDPI Scaling, GPU Hardware Acceleration

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 May, 2023

    Valve released a new Steam client beta overnight and contains a few notable fixes for NVIDIA Linux gamers...
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      Wayland's Weston 12.0 Released With Multi-GPU Support, PipeWire Backend, Tearing Control

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 May, 2023

    Weston 12.0 as Wayland's reference compositor is now available with multiple GPU support in the DRM back-end, support for HDMI content types, support for the Wayland tearing control protocol, plane alpha DRM property handling, a PipeWire back-end, and much more...