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Flatpak 1.17.7 To Track The Age Of Configurations For Providing Much Better Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 05/06/2026 - 08:35
Flatpak 1.17.7 is now available for continuing to advance open-source app sandboxing and distribution on the Linux desktop. Some interesting new features are in tow with this Flatpak update plus there is also an updated XDG-Desktop-Portal release too...

Why automated OS upgrades still need a human in the loop

Red Hat News - Wed, 05/06/2026 - 08:00
There's a lot of pressure on many of us to use more AI to facilitate our jobs. This may sound familiar to you:"Where’s the AI?" the boss asks, somewhere between desperate and annoyed."Upgrades are deterministic! You can't use something that works MOST of the time!" the IT team replies. The boss replies, “But Alice built a new app environment in 2 hours with Claude Code! You've got servers that have been on my non-compliance list for 2 years." The boss has a point, but the fact is that upgrades don't lend themselves to "Just let the AI do it."So the IT folks (and the application owners) ten

The virtualization pivot and why enterprise IT’s next move will determine the next decade

Red Hat News - Wed, 05/06/2026 - 08:00
Next week, thousands of IT leaders will gather in Atlanta for Red Hat Summit. The agenda covers everything from AI to digital sovereignty, but in the customer conversations I have continued to have over the past 24 months, a different topic keeps coming up: whether the virtualization platform they've been running for years and depend on is still the right foundation for their workloads today, and whether it sets them up for what's coming next. Most of them are already evaluating alternatives.For a long time, virtualization was a "set it and forget it" part of the stack. That isn't the case any

F5 AI Guardrails quickstart: Answering the hard questions

Red Hat News - Wed, 05/06/2026 - 08:00
A financial services firm is deploying an AI assistant to help underwriters review policies, analyze risk documents, and answer compliance questions. The model is grounded in the firm’s own document collection, drawing answers directly from underwriting manuals, regulatory filings, and internal procedures. The business case is solid.Then the security review starts:Can a crafted prompt trick the model into ignoring its system instructions and exposing confidential data?What happens when a response surfaces personally identifiable information (PII) that's embedded in the retrieved documents?Is

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Experimental Support For Descriptor Heaps

Phoronix - Wed, 05/06/2026 - 04:00
After the merge request was open the past three months for code originally authored eight months ago, the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver for Linux systems is now advertising support for descriptor heaps with the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap extension. But for the moment at least it's treated as experimental...

Rusticl Driver Ready To Go With OpenCL 3.1 Working On Radeon, Intel Iris & Zink/Vulkan

Phoronix - Wed, 05/06/2026 - 02:28
The Khronos Group today announced OpenCL 3.1 as the first major spec update in six years and incorporating various features into the core spec for enhancing AI and HPC capabilities. As a very exciting development, Rusticl as Mesa's lead OpenCL driver implementation is ready to go with same-day OpenCL 3.1 support pending...

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