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GNOME Mutter Lands Improved GPU Selection Logic For Laptops

Phoronix - Tue, 11/12/2024 - 22:30
Merged today to GNOME's Mutter compositor is improved logic for selecting the graphics processor to treat as the primary one within multi-GPU laptops...

Red Hat Acquiring Neural Magic To Bolster Open-Source AI Offerings

Phoronix - Tue, 11/12/2024 - 21:26
Red Hat announced today they have signed a definitive agreement to acquire Neural Magic, an AI software company behind the likes of DeepSparse and nm-vllm...

Mesa 25.0 Clover OpenCL Drops Support For NIR Drivers

Phoronix - Tue, 11/12/2024 - 20:00
As part of the transition to eventually drop the long dormant Clover OpenCL state tracker from Mesa's Gallium3D codebase in favor of the modern OpenCL Rusticl Rust-written driver, Mesa 25.0 has ended Clover support for NIR-based drivers...

AMD's Ninth Iteration Of Their XDNA Linux Driver Posted For Ryzen AI

Phoronix - Tue, 11/12/2024 - 19:30
Yesterday brought the eighth and ninth iteration of the AMD XDNA Linux kernel driver posted for review for enabling the Ryzen AI branded NPUs found in their recent SoCs...

Red Hat & Intel Developing "Climatik" For Power Capping AI In The Data Center

Phoronix - Tue, 11/12/2024 - 19:15
Red Hat in cooperation with Intel, Bloomberg and IBM has been developing the Climatik open-source project as a means of power capping AI use within the data center for better energy efficiency and sustainability...

GCC 15 Lands New Optimization For AMD Zen 4 & Zen 5 CPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 11/12/2024 - 18:59
Merged today for the upcoming GCC 15 stable release is a new "X86_TUNE_AVX512_TWO_EPILOGUES" tuning optimization that is enabled by default for AMD Zen 4 and Zen 5 processors...

How to Install Kali Linux Tools on Ubuntu Using Docker

Tecmint - Tue, 11/12/2024 - 14:00
The post How to Install Kali Linux Tools on Ubuntu Using Docker first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In the past, Katoolin was a script that helped to install Kali Linux tools on your preferred Linux distribution. It

The post How to Install Kali Linux Tools on Ubuntu Using Docker first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

MPRIS Timer App - OMG! Ubuntu!

Google News - Tue, 11/12/2024 - 10:52
MPRIS Timer App  OMG! Ubuntu!

How to make generative AI more consumable

Red Hat News - Tue, 11/12/2024 - 08:00
Think about some of the past trends in technology, and you’ll start to see some patterns emerge. For example, with cloud computing there’s no one-size-fits-all approach. Combinations of different approaches, such as on premise and different cloud providers, have led to organizations taking advantage of hybrid infrastructure benefits in deploying their enterprise applications. When we think about the future, a similar structure will be essential for the consumption of artificial intelligence (AI) across diverse applications and business environments. Flexibility will be crucial as no single

FAQ: Red Hat to acquire Neural Magic

Red Hat News - Tue, 11/12/2024 - 08:00
FAQ: Red Hat to acquire Neural MagicWhat is being announced?On Nov. 12, 2024, Red Hat announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Neural Magic, subject to regulatory reviews and other customary closing conditions.What is Neural Magic?Neural Magic is a Somerville, Massachusetts-based early stage company developing technology that helps organizations optimize AI models for greater performance and efficiency. Specifically, Neural Magic is a leader in the vLLM community project with expertise in quantization and sparsification.What does Neural Magic provide?Neural Magic provides

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