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Vulkan 1.4.344 Released With New Extension From Valve

Phoronix - Fri, 02/20/2026 - 09:27
Vulkan 1.4.344 is out today as the latest routine spec update for this high performance graphics and compute API. Besides a handful of fixes and clarifications, Vulkan 1.4.344 brings a new extension courtesy of Valve engineers...

Small models, big impact: The future of scaling enterprise AI agents

Red Hat News - Fri, 02/20/2026 - 08:00
In the AI industry, we’ve spent the last 3 years obsessed with scale. We’ve chased parameter counts into the trillions, believing that "bigger" was the only path to "smarter." But as the dust settles, a new reality is emerging for the enterprise—size is not the metric that matters, delivering reliable, deterministic outcomes is.At Red Hat, we’ve always believed that the most powerful technologies are those that are distributed, open, and fit-for-purpose. Small language models (SLMs) represent that exact shift. The distinction between SLMs and large language models (LLMs) is less import

Red Hat OpenShift 4.21 brings Kubernetes to Oracle Database Appliance

Red Hat News - Fri, 02/20/2026 - 08:00
Red Hat OpenShift 4.21 continues to expand the reach of enterprise Kubernetes into Oracle's infrastructure portfolio. Our expanded Oracle Cloud Infrastructure support in OpenShift 4.20 brings OpenShift to Oracle's distributed and edge cloud services. We now extend support to another key Oracle offering: Oracle Database Appliance (ODA).What is Oracle Database Appliance?Oracle Database Appliance is an engineered system designed to simplify Oracle Database deployments for small to medium organizations and distributed environments. ODA combines optimized hardware and software into a single applian

Friday Five — February 20, 2026

Red Hat News - Fri, 02/20/2026 - 08:00
How sovereign is your strategy? Introducing the Red Hat Sovereignty Readiness Assessment toolRed Hat believes that sovereignty shouldn't be a wall but a foundation for the freedom to choose where and how you run your workloads. To accelerate this push towards sovereign independence, we are introducing the Red Hat Digital Sovereignty Readiness Assessment tool. Learn more Register today for Red Hat SummitRed Hat Summit 2026 heads to Atlanta, Georgia! Register by February 23 for our lowest pricing and discounted group rates for your organization, so you can uncover opportunities for your busine

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Moving To OpenJDK 25 By Default

Phoronix - Fri, 02/20/2026 - 05:29
It's not too surprising but the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 Long Term Support release will be transitioning to OpenJDK 25 as its default Java version...

Intel Vulkan Driver Lands One-Line Change That Can Bring Minor Performance Benefits

Phoronix - Fri, 02/20/2026 - 04:04
Merged today to Mesa 26.1 Git is a one-line change to the Intel "ANV" Vulkan driver that is showing to deliver some slight performance benefits or up to 3% noted in some select games...

Turbostat With Linux 7.0 Can Report New L2 Cache Statistics

Phoronix - Fri, 02/20/2026 - 02:24
The Turbostat command-line utility for reporting processor frequency and idle statistics along with other useful information for AMD and Intel CPUs can now report some L2 cache stats for recent Intel CPUs beginning with Linux 7.0...

AI Helped Uncover A "50-80x Improvement" For Linux's IO_uring

Phoronix - Fri, 02/20/2026 - 00:42
Linux block maintainer and IO_uring lead developer Jens Axboe recently was debugging some slowdowns in the AHCI/SCSI code with IO_uring usage. When turning to Claude AI to help in sorting through the issue, patches were devised that can deliver up to a "literally yield a 50-80x improvement on the io_uring side for idle systems." The code is on its way to the Linux kernel...

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