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Revolutionizing learning: How Ford's Kubernetes community sparks technological innovation

Red Hat News - Thu, 01/15/2026 - 08:00
As traditional learning methods fall short in the fast-paced world of cloud computing and container orchestration, Ford has pivoted to a more agile approach to technology education: an internal Kubernetes user group that has transformed how its teams learn, collaborate, and innovate.What began as a small initiative has blossomed into a vibrant ecosystem of over 200 passionate developers, demonstrating the incredible potential of community-driven learning. Their journey reveals how organizations can create meaningful technological communities that transcend traditional training boundaries.The g

New efficiency upgrades in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15

Red Hat News - Thu, 01/15/2026 - 08:00
If you’re a platform engineer or SRE, you know that managing infrastructure and efficiently managing it are two very different things. You’ve been able to run virtual machines (VMs) alongside containers in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for a while now. But as your fleet grows, finding that one specific VM acting up in a haystack of clusters can feel like a scavenger hunt you didn't sign up for.Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15 redefines your daily workflow instead of just adding features. We’ve taken the capabilities you rely on and made them easier to use so

Feature store: The front-end for all of your AI data pipelines

Red Hat News - Thu, 01/15/2026 - 08:00
Enterprise AI is evolving beyond individual models to unified data ecosystems.As organizations scale their AI initiatives, an exciting opportunity emerges—building a unified data gateway that connects every step of your AI pipeline, from raw data through compute processing to feature catalogs and model serving. This isn't just about managing complexity, it's about creating a foundation that helps accelerate innovation.One recurring challenge organizations face is that data scientists end up rebuilding the same features over and over again. One team calculates customer lifetime value for a ch

GRUB 2.14 Bootloader Released With EROFS Support, Shim Loader Protocol

Phoronix - Thu, 01/15/2026 - 06:54
More than two years after the release of GRUB 2.12, GRUB 2.14 shipped today as the newest feature release of this widely-used bootloader on Linux systems and elsewhere...

An Early Run With Ubuntu 26.04 On AMD EPYC Turin - The Current Performance Gains Over Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Phoronix - Thu, 01/15/2026 - 04:23
There still are several months to go until the official Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release -- including one month until the feature freeze and the future Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel is expected to land too before the latter kernel freeze in early April. But for those curious how Ubuntu 26.04 is looking so far for servers, here are some very early benchmarks of it on AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" in its present development state. The main motivation here for this early look was stemming from the recent rolling-release CachyOS benchmarks on AMD EPYC and wanting to see how it goes up against the current development state of Ubuntu Linux.

New RADV Code Can Deliver 10x Faster Ray-Tracing Pipeline Compilation For Some Games

Phoronix - Thu, 01/15/2026 - 01:42
A new merge request opened today for Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" by Valve contractor Natalie Vock provides another significant boost for the Vulkan ray-tracing performance in multiple titles...

GlobalFoundries Acquires Synopsys ARC Processor IP, To Be Integrated Into MIPS

Phoronix - Thu, 01/15/2026 - 00:20
Last year GlobalFoundries acquired MIPS while an interesting new development announced today is that GlobalFoundries has acquired the ARC Processor IP and its solutions business from Synopsys. The Synopsys ARC Processor IP will be brought into the MIPS umbrella...

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