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Friday Five — November 28, 2025

Red Hat News - Fri, 11/28/2025 - 08:00
Red Hat Research Quarterly - “It’s the wild frontier”: Security, agentic AI, and open source Luke Hinds and Ryan Cook discuss the urgent need to develop security in AI, the importance of model provenance and transparency, the essential role of the open source community, and adapting authorization protocols for AI agents. Learn more Alliander modernises its electricity grid with Red Hat for long-term reliability in balance with rapid innovationAlliander, a Dutch grid operator, modernized its electricity network by decoupling short-lifecycle control software from long-lasting hardware us

GCC 16 Switches To Using C++20 Standard By Default

Phoronix - Fri, 11/28/2025 - 03:47
Following up on the discussion from earlier this month among GCC developers over switching to C++20 by default for the GCC compiler as the default C++ standard when not otherwise set, that change has indeed happened. Merged now is the change defaulting to C++20 (well, the GNU++20 dialect) rather than C++17/GNU++17 when not otherwise specified when compiling C++ code...

Intel Battlemage Graphics Enjoyed Nice GPU Compute Performance Gains In 2025

Phoronix - Fri, 11/28/2025 - 01:34
In addition to Intel Arrow Lake desktop performance evolving nicely on Linux over the course of 2025, the Intel Arc B-Series graphics that launched last December with the Arc B580 have evolved quite nicely too with their open-source driver stack. With it coming up on one year since the Arc B580 launch, here is a look at how the GPU compute performance has evolved since that point. Similar Intel Arc B580 Linux graphics comparisons are also coming up in a follow-up comparison on Phoronix.

Zlib-ng 2.3.1 Released With More CPU Performance Optimizations

Phoronix - Thu, 11/27/2025 - 23:52
Zlib-ng 2.3.1 is out today as the first stable release in the v2.3 series for this Zlib replacement that carries a variety of performance optimizations for speedier compression/decompression...

Valve-Backed Color Pipeline API For Linux Is Finally Ready For Upstream

Phoronix - Thu, 11/27/2025 - 19:49
For those Linux desktop users in the US needing another reason to be thankful this Thanksgiving, a huge and long-awaited accomplishment is ready for merging to the kernel: the Color Pipeline API that is important for HDR is ready for merging! As of last night the code is queued in DRM-Misc-Next for this years-in-the-making effort...

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