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AMD ROCm 7.14 "TheRock" Tech Preview Tagged For Latest AMD GPU Compute Stack

Phoronix - Thu, 07/16/2026 - 08:21
AMD's software team appears to be busy getting ready for next week's Advancing AI event happening next week in San Francisco. In addition to the release today of the Lemonade 11.0 local AI server, TheRock 7.14 was also tagged as the modern build system for ROCm working on the latest tech preview releases of this open-source AMD GPU compute stack...

Why Operational Resilience and Digital Sovereignty Top the CIO Agenda - by Martin Lentle

Red Hat News - Thu, 07/16/2026 - 08:00
For CIOs across the Middle East Africa, keeping systems online is the foundation of customer trust. As public sector institutions and private enterprises accelerate their digital transformation, maintaining this operational uptime is the top priority. In a complex business landscape, an infrastructure outage immediately halts crucial services, risks public safety, and compromises the user experience. Navigating this need for operational predictability is challenging for organisations operating in highly sensitive environments with strict compliance frameworks and data residency requirements.

Interactive labs: Enterprise lab environments, ready in minutes at no cost

Red Hat News - Thu, 07/16/2026 - 08:00
Before anything reaches production, you have to test it, validate it, and sometimes learn about it from scratch. All 3 of these steps are necessary to have a properly running environment but your window to complete them is almost always shorter than expected. Building an environment from scratch also eats up more time and resources than any test should.For most teams that run lab sessions regularly, setting up a lab environment manually takes roughly 40 minutes every time. The process always looks the same:Provision a virtual machineRegister the systemConfigure software repositoriesDownload an

How Red Hat solves the toughest challenges in agentless infrastructure scanning

Red Hat News - Thu, 07/16/2026 - 08:00
Enterprises want absolute clarity on their IT footprint: they want to know exactly what software is running, where it’s running, and how those deployments align with subscription entitlements. For many organizations, Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console and subscription watch provide that visibility. But what happens when your infrastructure can't (or shouldn't) phone home? Air-gapped networks, government systems, manufacturing floors, and sovereign clouds all require a completely disconnected approach.That is exactly why we built discovery, an open source, agentless scanning tool that is a componen

Mesa 26.2-rc1 Released In Ending Feature Work For This Quarter's 3D Graphics Stack

Phoronix - Thu, 07/16/2026 - 05:10
Mesa 26.2 was branched today from Mesa Git and in turn Mesa 26.3-devel is now open on mainline...

AMD Releases Lemonade 11.0 Local AI Server With Text-To-Speech, Other New Features

Phoronix - Thu, 07/16/2026 - 03:51
Ahead of the AMD Advancing AI event next week, today AMD released Lemonade 11.0 as the latest feature release of their local AI server supporting AMD Ryzen CPUs, AMD Radeon GPUs, and AMD Ryzen AI NPU acceleration...

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS vs. Windows 11 vs. CachyOS Performance On A $5399 Laptop

Phoronix - Thu, 07/16/2026 - 00:15
Earlier this month on Phoronix I reviewed the Razer Blade 18 RZ09-0582 as the first laptop Razer is certifying for Linux use via Canonical's hardware certification program for Linux. It offered very nice performance with the Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics albeit costly with a configured price of $5399 USD. That review featured benchmarks on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS but for those wondering about the performance of Ubuntu against Windows 11 on this gaming/AI developer laptop, here are comparison benchmarks plus also tossing in the rolling-release CachyOS distribution.

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