GNOME Infrastructure Now Battling Bots & AI Scrapers Using Fastly

GNOME’s GitLab infrastructure has already been using Anubis for a while to help fend off bots and AI scraper traffic from wreacking havoc on their server resources and also their hosting budget. GNOME recently began redirecting some GitLab traffic to their GitHub repositories as another step in dealing with bots/scrapers. Now they have taken an added step of using the commercial, closed-source Fastly in their battle with bots…

BeagleBadge wearable platform boasts TI AM62L SoC, ePaper display, and Linux support

The BeagleBoard.org Foundation has introduced BeagleBadge, an open-source wearable development platform for IoT and embedded applications. The badge integrates a 4.2-inch ePaper display, onboard sensors, wireless connectivity, and expansion interfaces in a compact board for prototyping wearable and interactive systems. The platform is built around the Texas Instruments AM62L Sitara SoC. The AM62L32 integrates a […]

TrueNAS Connect Announced For Offering Enterprise Features Without The Hardware

Last year TrueNAS unified their SCALE and CORE offerings as part of solidifying their enterprise storage efforts around Linux from their prior FreeBSD base. This year the developers at iXsystems have another change in store with announcing TrueNAS Connect as a new bridge for accessing TrueNAS enterprise storage features without having to invest in their hardware…

Intel CPU Security Mitigation Costs From Haswell Through Panther Lake

Over the past month on Phoronix there have been a lot of benchmarks of Intel’s new Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” with the Core Ultra X7 358H. One of the areas of Panther Lake not explored yet is around the CPU security mitigation impact, which is the focus of today’s benchmarking. The performance tests today are not only looking at the impact of the Core Ultra X7 SoC at its default versus running in a “mitigations=off” configuration but also comparing the overall CPU security mitigation impact with the run-time toggle going back all the way to Intel Haswell era laptops.

[$] Practical uses for a null filesystem

One of the first changes merged for the upcoming 7.0 release was nullfs,
an empty filesystem that cannot actually contain any files. One might
logically wonder why the kernel would need such a thing. It turns out,
though, that there are places where a null filesystem can come in handy.
For 7.0, nullfs will be used to make life a bit easier for init
programs; future releases will likely use nullfs to increase the isolation
of kernel threads from the init process.