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10 essential reads to optimize performance, security, and ROI in the AI era

Red Hat News - Fri, 05/29/2026 - 08:00
As enterprise IT organizations push deeper into operationalizing AI, the conversation has shifted from theoretical capability to hard execution metrics. Whether your team is talking with customers about scaling large language models (LLMs) on restricted local hardware, navigating the real-world performance numbers of distributed inference, or shielding proprietary model weights, the underlying goal remains the same: building a predictable, highly security-focused foundation that returns clear business value. This month’s roundup brings you the critical architecture analyses, benchmark realit

Intel Arc Pro B70 BMG-G31 Linux Gaming Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 05/28/2026 - 23:01
In recent weeks we have been exploring different areas of the Intel Arc Pro B70 graphics performance on Linux from various OpenCL and Vulkan to Level Zero compute benchmarks, scaling up to four Arc Pro B70 graphics cards, comparing to NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell, and other relevant tests. While not intended for gaming, many Phoronix readers keep raising requests for seeing the Arc Pro B70 performance for Linux gaming given the lack of any consumer BMG-G31 GPU. So for those curious, here is a look at the Linux gaming performance with the Arc Pro B70 graphics card.

Arm Announces Metis: Agentic AI Security Framework

Phoronix - Thu, 05/28/2026 - 22:20
Arm today announced the open-sourcing of Metis, an agentic AI security framework that delivers context AI-powered security analysis in looking out for software vulnerabilities...

QEMU Shifting On AI Policy To Allow Some AI/LLM-Generated Contributions

Phoronix - Thu, 05/28/2026 - 21:50
The QEMU processor emulator that plays an important role in the open-source Linux virtualization stack had a policy that forbid any contributions including or derived from AI-generated content. But there are now second thoughts with a proposed patch that will permit AI/LLM contributions in non-critical areas...

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