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Picture this: you have a powerful language model in production, but it struggles to provide satisfying answers for specific, niche questions. You try retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and carefully crafted prompt engineering, but the responses still need to be revised. The next step might seem to be full model fine tuning—updating every layer of the model to handle your specialized cases—but that demands significant time and compute resources.What is LoRA?Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) is a faster and less resource-intensive fine tuning technique that can shape how a large language model re

TrustyAI is an open source community dedicated to providing a diverse toolkit for responsible artificial intelligence (AI) development and deployment. TrustyAI was founded in 2019 as part of Kogito, an open source business automation community, as a response to growing demand from users in highly regulated industries such as financial services and healthcare. With increasing global regulation of AI technologies, toolkits for responsible AI are an invaluable and necessary asset to any MLOps platform. Since 2021, TrustyAI has been independent of Kogito, and has grown in size and scope amidst the

The AI landscape is evolving at an electrifying pace. Just as with any technological leap, the question arises: what path will best shape its future? Red Hat believes the answer is clear:The future of AI is open source.This isn’t just a philosophical stance; it’s an approach focused on unlocking the true value of AI and making it something far more accessible, far more democratized and far more powerful.We have always believed in the power of open source development in driving innovation. We’ve seen this play out in the rise of Linux, KVM, OpenStack, Kubernetes and many other projects th

As the demand for artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing grows, so does the power consumption of data centers. Data centers are the backbone of the modern digital economy, but they are also some of the biggest contributors to global energy usage. With the generative AI (gen AI) explosion and the increased demand for AI workloads and power, there has also been an uptick in technology’s carbon footprint.This presents a critical challenge: how can data centers manage their energy consumption without sacrificing the performance needed to support their AI applications? The new Climatik

DXVK 2.5 Improves Memory Management in God of War and Other Video Games  9to5Linux

DXVK 2.5 was just released as the newest version of this open-source project implementing Direct3D APIs atop the Vulkan API for better handling of Windows games on Linux systems as used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) software...

Memtest86+ 7.0 debuted back in January while now as we approach the end of 2024, Memtest86+ 7.20 is now available as the latest significant update to this open-source memory tester commonly used on Intel and AMD systems...

The latest terminology within the Fedora camp causing concern is "karma" that's long been used for conveying feedback around package updates with their Bodhi software used for gating Fedora Linux package updates...

Fedora Linux Is Getting a New Installer  Review Geek

Fedora Linux Is Getting a New Installer  How-To Geek

Debian 12.8 Released  WebProNews

How to install Nvidia drivers on Linux Debian, explained  Cantech Letter

How to easily update Windows Subsystem for Linux 2’s kernel  PCWorld

Microsoft Announces Open-Source Hyperlight For Embedded VMM Within Linux/Windows Apps  Phoronix

Microsoft last month announced the open-source Rust-written OpenHCL for running confidential Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP virtual machines. Today Microsoft is announcing another interesting open-source, Rust-based project in the virtualization space: Hyperlight. Microsoft's Hyperlight project is an embed-friendly, lightweight VMM for use within Linux and Windows applications...

While not as exciting as if it were Apple M3/M4 device support hitting the upstream mainline Linux kernel, but for those with some older Apple (pre-M1) devices around, support for a number of older SoCs and boards is set to arrive with the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel...

Basic Support For Many Pre-M1 Apple Devices Coming To Linux 6.13  Phoronix

As another effort for boosting the energy efficiency and behavior of Intel Core platforms with a mix of energy efficient "E" and performance "P" cores, a set of patches were posted Friday night for adapting Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) to the Intel P-State CPU frequency scaling driver with a focus on providing better energy efficient performance initially for Lunar Lake SoCs...

New CRON#TRAP malware uses hidden Linux VM  DM News

Qila Joins Forces with LF Decentralized Trust to Propel Web3 Adoption  CoinTrust