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Intel Finds Great Performance With PostgreSQL's AVX-512 Support

Phoronix - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 09:44
Back in April PostgreSQL added AVX-512 support for CRC32 computations. At the time the gains for CRC32 computations with this popular open-source database server were reported to be 50% to 3x faster for x86_64 CPUs able to leverage AVX-512. That AVX-512 support is found with PostgreSQL 18.0 that released in September and now Intel is praising this addition to PostgreSQL for which their developers also had a part in along with AWS and others...

Listening, learning, and leading: How customer feedback shapes the future of Red Hat Learning Subscription

Red Hat News - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 08:00
At Red Hat, innovation begins with listening. In October 2025, the Red Hat Learning Think Tank forum brought together a group of passionate learners and leaders to listen, learn, and collaborate on Red Hat Learning Subscription and help shape its roadmap. The forum focused on what learners value most from Red Hat Learning Subscription, the challenges they face, and how Red Hat can better support technical skill development at scale. In this article, you’ll hear about the key takeaways from the meeting, next steps, and the importance of providing feedback to better empower current and future

Improving modern software supply chain security: From AI models to container images

Red Hat News - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 08:00
The software supply chain has evolved dramatically in recent years. Today's applications integrate countless components—from open source libraries and container images to AI models and training datasets. Each element represents a potential security risk that organizations must understand, verify, and continuously monitor. As supply chain attacks increase in frequency and sophistication, enterprises need comprehensive solutions that provide both artifact integrity and deep visibility into their software dependencies.Red Hat's latest releases of Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer 1.3 and Red Hat

Mesa 25.2.7 Ships The Latest Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 05:32
Eric Engestrom today released Mesa 25.2.7 as the newest bi-weekly point release for this stable set of open-source (predominantly) OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for Linux systems...

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