<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="true"><li>Canonical is considering disabling Intel GPU security mitigations to potentially boost performance by up to 20% on Ubuntu.</li><li>Intel GPUs are affected by speculative execution vulnerabilities, leading to performance slowdowns of up to 20% in compute-heavy tasks.</li><li>Canonical is evaluating the trade-off between performance gains and security risks, noting that no known GPU attacks exploiting these vulnerabilities have occurred yet.</li><li>The decision to disable GPU mitigations on Ubuntu could influence how other Linux distributions and possibly Windows handle Intel GPU security in the future.</li></ul>

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