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Updated Linux Patches For Managing Out-Of-Memory Behavior Via BPF

Phoronix - Tue, 01/27/2026 - 18:43
Being worked on since last year by Google engineer Roman Gushchin was the latest attempt for the Linux kernel to support managing the out-of-memory "OOM" behavior using BPF programs. It's been a while since there has been anything new to report on that front but published overnight is the latest iteration of those patches...

Picolibc Picks Up RISC-V Improvements, Hexagon Support & Better POSIX Compliance

Phoronix - Tue, 01/27/2026 - 18:30
Keith Packard published Picolibc 1.8.11 on Monday as the newest release for his C library designed for embedded 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. Picolibc continues tacking on new CPU architecture support and other features for this project that started out as a conglomeration of the Newlib and AVR Libc C library codebases...

AMD Radeon Linux Driver Introduces Low-Latency Video Decode Option

Phoronix - Tue, 01/27/2026 - 09:23
AMD's RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for next quarter's Mesa 26.1 release is introducing a new low-latency video decode mode. This lower-latency video decoding comes with a trade-off of increased GPU power consumption...

Sovereign AI architecture: Scaling distributed training with Kubeflow Trainer and Feast on Red Hat OpenShift AI

Red Hat News - Tue, 01/27/2026 - 08:00
As AI becomes an engine of national competitiveness, the concept of sovereign AI—the capacity to operate AI systems free from external influence—is increasingly relevant, but the path to adoption is filled with challenges. A recent survey of over 900 IT leaders and AI engineers about AI adoption exposes a significant "value gap," showing that, despite high enthusiasm (72%), only 7% of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) organizations are delivering results.The survey highlights that data privacy and infrastructure silos are paralyzing AI development efforts. As a result, sovereign A

Valve's Proton 10.0-4 Released With More Windows Games Now Running On Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 01/27/2026 - 07:59
Valve and CodeWeavers today released Proton 10.0-4 as their newest update to this downstream of Wine that powers Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux...

AMD Squeezing Out More More ROCm/HIP Performance With New Device-Side PGO

Phoronix - Tue, 01/27/2026 - 04:03
Compiler profile guided optimization (PGO) techniques have paid off well for increasing CPU performance via application/workload-specific profiles fed back to the compiler to make more informed decisions. AMD compiler engineers have been working on crafting device-side PGO for their AMDGPU LLVM back-end for allowing ROCm/HIP workloads to achieve greater GPU performance. An initial merge request is now open for upstream LLVM...

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