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Fedora Evaluating New Idea For For Experimental Concepts & Fostering New Innovations

Phoronix - Wed, 03/11/2026 - 08:37
Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta announced a new proposal for "A Technology Innovation Lifecycle Process for Fedora." With the help of Google's Gemini AI, Spaleta laid out a proposal to help Fedora make greater accommodations for experimental concepts and building more interest around innovative ideas without a firm commitment to integrate them into Fedora proper until they can be assured of sustainability...

Scaling Enterprise Federated AI with Flower and Open Cluster Management

Red Hat News - Wed, 03/11/2026 - 08:00
Federated AI inverts the traditional machine learning paradigm. Instead of bringing data to the model, it brings the model to the data. Training happens locally on distributed nodes (i.e., hospitals, banks, and edge devices), and only model updates are shared with a central coordinator. The raw data never leaves its source. We will discuss this approach and how it enables collaborative AI while addressing privacy regulations (i.e., GDPR-EU data protection and HIPAA-US healthcare privacy) and data sovereignty requirements critical for healthcare, finance, and cross-border deployments. In this p

Current RISC-V CPUs Being Too Slow Causes Headaches For Fedora: ~5x Slower Builds

Phoronix - Wed, 03/11/2026 - 03:22
The current crop of RISC-V SoCs are still much slower than alternative CPU architectures and lead to much longer build times for Fedora packages as a result. There's hope with next-gen RISC-V processors being faster but for now even compiling Binutils as an example is around five times slower than x86_64 -- and that's with disabling compiler link-time optimizations (LTO) for RISC-V to avoid an even longer build process...

MSI PRO B850-P WiFi: A Special AMD Ryzen AM5 Motherboard For Linux / Open-Source Enthusiasts

Phoronix - Wed, 03/11/2026 - 02:20
The MSI PRO B850-P WIFI motherboard is a unique AMD Ryzen AM5 motherboard for Linux/open-source enthusiasts that is competitively priced at just $179 USD. It's interesting not because of the doings of MSI but rather 3mdeb with this being the desktop motherboard they are working on porting AMD openSIL and Coreboot to for allowing an open-source firmware stack.

OpenSSL 4.0 Alpha 1 Released With Encrypted Client Hello "ECH" & Other Features

Phoronix - Wed, 03/11/2026 - 00:13
The first alpha release of OpenSSL 4.0 is now available for testing. With OpenSSL 3.0 they are removing support for SSLv3 that has been deprecated for over one decade while also dropping OpenSSL engines and other removals while also adding in some new features...

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