AMD Releases Orochi 2.0 With More CUDA/HIP Functions Implemented For Better Portability

AMD GPUOpen's Orochi project as a remidner is the effort for allowing dynamic runtime switching between the Radeon HIP and NVIDIA CUDA APIs to allow better cross-GPU portability. Today marks the availability of Orochi 2.0 for enhancing this API to target NVIDIA CUDA and AMD HIP hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Orochi-2.0-HIP-CUDA

GitHub Disables The XZ Repository Following Today's Malicious Disclosure

Today's disclosure of XZ upstream release packages containing malicious code to compromise remote SSH access has certainly been an Easter weekend surprise... The situation only looks more bleak over time with how the upstream project was compromised while now the latest twist is GitHub disabling the XZ repository in its entirety...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GitHub-Disables-XZ-Repo

KDE Introduces New Marknote App

KDE developers have announced the first release of Marknote, a new note-taking application for the KDE Plasma desktop...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Marknote-App