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AVX-512 xor_gen Continues To Look Exciting For Helping Linux RAID With Modern CPUs

Google engineer Eric Biggers back in June posted an AVX-512 optimization for Linux RAID yielding up to a 41% improvement on a modern AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (Zen 5) processor. A revised patch then put it as much as a 43% improvement for this AVX-512 optimized xor_gen() function. The code hasn't yet been merged to mainline but an updated version of it is now available...

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PMD Predicts 5 Days of Heavy Rain

PMD Predicts 5 Days of Heavy Rain

The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has forecast heavy rain, wind and thunderstorms across the country’s upper and central regions during … Read More The post PMD Predicts 5 Days of Heavy…

·propakistani.pk

Airtel Switches On a Satellite Phone Link in the DR Congo

Airtel Congo has switched on a Starlink satellite link for ordinary Android handsets, the first commercial service of its kind on the continent.

  • Airtel Congo launched Airtel Starlink DRC on 14 August 2026.
  • Service connects Android phones to SpaceX satellites without dish.
  • Supports text, low-bandwidth apps, with 30-day free trial.

·riotimesonline.com

Linux 7.3 binfmt_misc To Allow BPF Programs To Dynamically Choose Execution Environments

The Linux kernel's binfmt_misc functionality allows non-native/custom files to ne run directly such as for Windows EXE files to be handled by Wine or JAR files to be handled by the Java runtime.

  • Linux 7.3 introduces binfmtmisc for dynamic BPF program execution environments
  • Binfmtmisc enables programmable binary type matching and interpreter computation per exec
  • Transparent dispatch allows interpreter to load binary through ATEXECFD

·phoronix.com

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