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Linux 7.4 Gains AMD PerfOpt, a Speed Boost for Radeon Integrated Graphics
AMD PerfOpt has been merged into the Linux 7.4 kernel. It lets integrated GPUs access system memory without going through the IOMMU, delivering a noticeable boost for AI workloads.
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Linux 7.4 Sound: "The AI Flood Continues"
Sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE notes that AI agents keep churning out patches and uncovering fresh kernel bugs.
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Linux 7.4: Radeon HDMI 2.1 by Default, AMD iGPU AI Boost, and First Apple M4 Steps
As the Linux 7.3 kernel heads toward its stable release, Phoronix previews the next cycle. Highlights include HDMI 2.1 enabled by default on modern Radeon cards, big LLM performance gains on AMD integrated graphics, and initial Apple M4 support.
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Linux 7.4 Brings AMD Zen 6 BTB Context Isolation
The Linux 7.4 kernel is picking up support for a new AMD Zen 6 security feature — Branch Target Buffer Context Isolation (BTB CTX Isolation).
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How a Valve Engineer Breathed New Life Into Old AMD GPUs on Linux
Over the past year Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics team has improved support for AMD's decade-old GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs in the AMDGPU driver. He recounted the work at the XDC2026 conference in Toronto.
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AMD to buy Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion
World Labs founder and computer-vision pioneer Fei-Fei Li will join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist.
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Lunex Stealer Turns an AMD Driver Against the Very Tools Meant to Stop It
Ontinue has detailed the Lunex malware-as-a-service platform, whose Psychedelic stealer abuses a vulnerable AMD Radeon driver to blind security monitoring and harvest browser passwords.
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Linux 7.4 to Speed Up Software RAID: Optimizing xor_gen for AVX-512
The Linux 7.4 kernel will get an AVX-512-rewritten xor_gen() function that noticeably speeds up computing and verifying parity blocks for RAID5 and RAID6.
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DDRop: A Cheap Interposer Breaks Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP
Researchers have demonstrated a hardware attack that forces a processor to read stale encrypted data, bypassing the protections of confidential computing in the cloud. The device used for the attack costs less than $200.
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Linux 7.3: Getting Ready for Zen 6, RGB for the Ryzen AI Halo, and Dozens of Laptops
The Linux 7.3 kernel has picked up a round of x86 platform driver updates: groundwork for AMD's future Zen 6 processors, backlight control for the Ryzen AI Halo mini PC, and a host of new laptops and handheld consoles.
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“KVM Chainsaw”: Cleaning Up the Virtualization Code in Linux 7.3
The Linux 7.3 merge window has accepted the KVM changes: mostly bug fixes and code cleanup, including the breakup of one of the more unwieldy data structures.
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LLVM/Clang 23.1: AMD Zen 6 support, NVIDIA Rigel cores and partial C++26
The first stable release of the LLVM 23 series is out — an update to the compiler stack for the second half of 2026. Among the new features are support for AMD Zen 6 processors, the NVIDIA Rigel core, and the first pieces of the C++26 standard.
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AMD Uploads RDNA 4m Firmware to linux-firmware Ahead of GPU Announcement
The company has published all the binary firmware files the open-source driver needs to initialize the upcoming RDNA 4m “GFX 11.7” graphics — well before the hardware ships.
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Framework BIOS Update Turns AMD-Chip Laptops into Bricks
The BIOS 3.20 update for Framework Laptop 13 machines running Ryzen 7040 chips is bricking some users' devices. The company is promising free board replacements and an emergency recovery mode.
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AMD GAIA 0.23: Installing and Running AI Agents Straight From the Terminal
AMD's open GAIA platform gets an update that lets you manage AI agents from the command line and makes working with them safer by default.
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Linux 7.2: Cache-Aware Scheduler, Getting Ready for AMD Zen 6, and HDMI 2.1 FRL
The Linux 7.2 kernel release is expected on Sunday, August 16. It will form the basis of Ubuntu 26.10 and other upcoming distributions, and the list of new features includes a new scheduler, support for the latest AMD and Intel hardware, and the first steps toward Apple M3.
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AMD Buys Startup Taalas to “Etch” AI Models into Silicon
AMD has acquired Taalas — a company promising to speed up inference by baking neural network models directly into the fabric of a chip.
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Interrupt Injection: A Precisely Timed Interrupt Slips Past Spectre v2 Defenses
MIT CSAIL researchers have shown that an unprivileged program on Linux can wedge itself into the gap between the moment the branch predictor is cleared and the moment the kernel uses it — re-“poisoning” it and bypassing the standard mitigations against Spectre v2.
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AMD Proposes an eSPI Subsystem for the Linux Kernel
AMD has published patches introducing a new subsystem for the eSPI interface into the Linux kernel, along with a driver for its own hardware.
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FFmpeg 9.0: More Acceleration via Vulkan, Animated WebP and New AMD AMF Filters
A new feature release of the popular open-source multimedia library FFmpeg is out. Version 9.0 expands hardware acceleration through Vulkan, adds support for animated WebP and a host of new filters.
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