Oracle's GraalVM To Shift Focus To Non-Java Languages Like Python & JavaScript GraalVM has been an interesting and performant Java JDK that over time added support for additional programming languages and execution models. Following their 2022 announcement that GraalVM CE Java code would be donated to OpenJDK, Oracle recently announced that moving forward GraalVM will focus on non-Java languages...
The oneAPI Construction Kit Drops Support For Vulkan Introduced two years ago was the Intel/Codeplay oneAPI Construction Kit for helping to bring SYCL support to new hardware. As part of that the oneAPI Construction Kit was brought to RISC-V and other platforms. Out this week is now oneAPI Construction Kit 5.0 and sadly it drops Vulkan API support...
KDE Plasma 6.5 Beta Released With KNightTime, Rounded Bottom Window Corners The beta release of KDE's Plasma 6.5 desktop took place on Thursday as they work toward the stable release expected on 21 October...
Linux 6.14 Looks To Support AMD's Zen 5 RMPREAD Instruction & Segmented RMP Mode For further enhancing the AMD EPYC virtualization experience on Linux, the upcoming Linux 6.14 looks like it will support Zen 5's new RMPREAD instruction and segmented RMP mode as part of Secure Encrypted Virtualization Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP)...