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Friday Five — January 16, 2026

Red Hat News - Fri, 01/16/2026 - 08:00
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Empowering federated learning with multicluster management

Red Hat News - Fri, 01/16/2026 - 08:00
The modern era of AI training, particularly for large models, faces simultaneous demands for computational scale and strict data privacy. Traditional machine learning (ML) requires centralizing the training data, resulting in significant hurdles and effort concerning data privacy, security, and data efficiency/volume.This challenge is magnified across heterogeneous global infrastructure in multicloud, hybrid cloud, and edge environments, so organizations must train models using the existing distributed datasets while protecting data privacy. Federated learning (FL) addresses this challenge by

EndeavourOS 2026.01.12 Released With Linux 6.18 LTS Kernel, NVIDIA Open Modules

Phoronix - Fri, 01/16/2026 - 06:32
EndeavourOS 2026.01.12 "Ganymede Neo" is out as the first update of the year to this Arch Linux based distribution...

Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 8: A High-End, Intel + NVIDIA Mobile Workstation Great For Linux Use

Phoronix - Fri, 01/16/2026 - 03:12
For those shopping for an AI-ready mobile workstation with NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell graphics, the Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 8 offers a lot of potential for developers, AI researchers, content creators, and others. This Linux-friendly mobile workstation is well built and aligns with ThinkPad P-Series expectations while being ready to be tasked with demanding workloads.

Linux 7.0 To Expand Temperature Reporting For Intel Graphics Cards

Phoronix - Fri, 01/16/2026 - 01:35
The upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle will provide expanded GPU temperature reporting capabilities for Intel graphics cards. Additional temperature sensors will now be exposed under Linux with the Intel Xe driver using the hardware monitoring (HWMON) interface for easy consumption by different Linux user-space software...

Burn 0.20 Released: Rust-Based Deep Learning With Speedy Perf Across CPUs & GPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 01/16/2026 - 01:06
A significant update to Burn was released today, the MIT and Apache 2.0 licensed tensor library and deep learning framework written in the Rust programming language. Burn 0.20 brings some low-level changes as it continues to strive to deliver high performance AI across the diverse hardware ecosystem...

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