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Raspberry Pi Raises Prices As Much As $60 Due To Memory Demand

Phoronix - Mon, 02/02/2026 - 18:40
Last year Raspberry Pi announced price increases due to memory demand. Today they have announced another round of increased prices as a result of the memory shortages going on industry-wide...

Steam Survey Results For January 2026

Phoronix - Mon, 02/02/2026 - 18:18
After Steam on Linux gaming hit a record high in December of 3.58%, the January 2026 numbers are now published...

IT automation with agentic AI: Introducing the MCP server for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Red Hat News - Mon, 02/02/2026 - 08:00
As we continue to expand intelligence capabilities in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, we’ve made the MCP server available as a technology preview feature in Ansible Automation Platform 2.6.4. The MCP server acts as a bridge between your MCP client of choice and Ansible Automation Platform. This integration helps you manage your entire infrastructure estate with exciting new tools like Cursor and Claude. What is MCP server for Ansible Automation Platform?The MCP server for Ansible Automation Platform is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation that enables Large Language Mod

General Availability for managed identity and workload identity on Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat News - Mon, 02/02/2026 - 08:00
Support for managed identities and workload identities is now Generally Available (GA) for Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift clusters. As a fully managed offering, Azure Red Hat OpenShift is a trusted, comprehensive and consistent application platform for building, deploying, and managing your applications at scale. It’s jointly operated and engineered by both Red Hat and Microsoft, providing an integrated support experience and allows organizations to focus on building and deploying applications, not managing the underlying infrastructure. This is a significant milestone that provides an en

Fast and simple AI deployment on Intel Xeon with Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat News - Mon, 02/02/2026 - 08:00
AI adoption and development have accelerated with generative and agentic AI reaching the masses. As new markets emerge, businesses have been struggling to take advantage of AI for real returns on investment. Although GPUs have dominated the infrastructure, increasing costs and decreasing availability due to demand have prompted leaders to seek alternatives that still meet performance requirements and customer satisfaction standards.Meanwhile, the developers and engineers working on AI face challenges in complex and time-consuming infrastructure setup and difficulty in building out software sta

Cracking the inference code: 3 proven strategies for high-performance AI

Red Hat News - Mon, 02/02/2026 - 08:00
Every organization piloting generative AI (gen AI) eventually hits the "inference wall." It’s the moment when the excitement of a working prototype meets the cold reality of production. Suddenly, that single model running on a developer’s laptop needs to serve thousands of concurrent users, maintain sub-50ms latency, and somehow not bankrupt the IT budget in cloud costs.The core challenge for enterprise AI is mainly operational: Solving the efficiency equation. It is no longer enough to just run a model, you must run it with precision performance. How do you maximize tokens per dollar? How

Announcing general availability of SQL Server 2025 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Red Hat News - Mon, 02/02/2026 - 08:00
The general availability (GA) of SQL Server 2025 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL) empowers enterprises to confidently deploy Microsoft SQL Server 2025 on Red Hat's latest enterprise Linux platform, combining Microsoft's modern, AI-ready database with the security, stability, and performance that RHEL is known for. Try it today on the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog.With SQL Server 2025 support on RHEL 10, organizations can run mission-critical SQL Server workloads on a platform built for hybrid cloud, edge, and AI-driven environments. This release reinforces our joint commitment to delivering a

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