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New Linux kernel patches currently undergoing review will allow AMD Ryzen AI NPU power metrics to be exposed under Linux. In turn this is useful for helping to gauge the utilization of the neural processing unit and also helping to evaluate the actual power efficiency of leveraging the AMD Ryzen AI NPU...

New Linux Patches To Expose AMD Ryzen AI NPU Power Metrics  Phoronix

What a Shame! FlatHub is Ranking on Google for Po*nHub Downloads  It's FOSS

VanHelsing Ransomware RaaS Expands Reach to Windows, Linux, BSD, ARM and ESXi Environments  Cyber Press

The YouTube video recordings for the X.Org Developers' Conference 2025 that took place at the end of September in Austria are finally available. Among the many interesting XDC2025 presentations was Intel engineer Matthew Brost talking about the GPU Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) within Intel's modern Xe kernel graphics driver...

Intel Xe Linux Driver Working Toward UALink & High Speed Fabrics Support  Phoronix

The SDL3 library that is popular with cross-platform games for abstracting various software/hardware features has implemented render batching for its built-in rendering API. This render batching is successfully wired up now for Direct3D 11/12, Apple Metal, and Vulkan APIs for more efficient graphics rendering...

New VanHelsing Ransomware-as-a-Service Hits Windows, Linux, BSD, ARM and ESXi  GBHackers News

$500+ MINISFORUM MS-R1 Arm Linux AI mini PC features CIX CP8180 12-core SoC, up to 64GB LPDDR5x  CNX Software

While there is already AMDXDNA as one of the few currently mainline drivers in the accelerator "accel" subsystem for supporting AMD Ryzen AI NPUs, another AMD accel driver is on the way: amd_vpci. The new amd_vpci driver patches were posted today for review as AMD continues to further expand their diverse offerings in the ecosystem...

AMD Posts New "amd_vpci" Accelerator Driver For Linux  Phoronix

For most large-scale enterprises today, the hybrid cloud isn't a strategy, it’s just the reality. Most organizations are running in both worlds: they have modern, cloud-native applications in containers, and critical, often mission-critical, systems in virtual machines (VMs).The reality is that running two separate virtualization stacks creates silos, complexity, and unnecessary operational cost – what can be called the complexity tax. It slows down your operations and application teams, strains budgets, and ultimately makes it harder to deliver value to the business.We recently spoke with

Red Hat OpenShift 4.20 brings significant expansion of support across Oracle's diverse cloud infrastructure services. This enhancement delivers OpenShift's enterprise-grade container platform to additional Oracle cloud services, providing your organization with greater flexibility and choice in your deployment strategy.OpenShift 4.20 introduces support for five new Oracle cloud infrastructure services:General Availability:EU Sovereign Cloud: Full production support for organizations requiring data sovereignty and regulatory compliance within European bordersTechnology Preview:Oracle US Governm

Red Hat OpenShift 4.20 is now generally available. It's based on Kubernetes 1.33 and CRI-O 1.33 and, together with Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus, this release underscores our commitment to provide a trusted, comprehensive, and consistent application platform. On OpenShift, AI workloads, containers, and virtualization seamlessly co-exist, enabling enterprises to innovate faster across the hybrid cloud, without compromising on security.Available in self-managed or fully managed cloud service editions, OpenShift offers an application platform with a complete set of integrated tools and services

The age of quantum computing is on the horizon, and with its immense processing power comes a significant threat to the cryptographic foundations of our digital world. In this article, we'll explore the emerging support for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) in Red Hat OpenShift 4.20, focusing on how it enhances the core components of the Kubernetes control plane: the apiserver, kubelet, scheduler, and controller-manager. Missing is etcd, using an older version of Go.The quantum threatToday's widely used public-key cryptosystems, such as RSA and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), form the foundat

We are excited to share that KServe, the leading standardized AI inference platform on Kubernetes, has been accepted as an incubating project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).This milestone validates KServe’s maturity, stability and role as the foundation for scalable, multi-framework model serving in production environments. By moving into the CNCF’s neutral governance, KServe’s development will be driven purely by community needs, accelerating its standardization for serving AI models on Kubernetes.For Red Hat this is a validation of our commitment to delivering open, re

The demand to extend applications to the edge has never been greater. From retail shops to industrial and manufacturing sites, there's a need to create, consume, and store data at the edge. Deploying applications at the edge comes with a set of physical constraints, but also with the need to deliver a truly cost-efficient and resilient architecture. When building applications at the edge, you must consider the needs of the individual site as well as the cost to deploy, manage, and maintain applications across multiple edge locations.The good news is that Red Hat OpenShift is evolving to meet t

The speed of innovation in large language models (LLMs) is astounding, but as enterprises move these models into production, the conversation shifts - it’s no longer just about raw scale; it’s about per-token efficiency and smart, targeted compute use.Simply put, not all prompts require the same level of reasoning. If a user has a simple request, like, "What is the capital of North Carolina?" a multi-step reasoning process required for say, a financial projection, isn’t necessary. If organizations use heavyweight reasoning models for every request, the result is both costly and inefficie

Year of Linux on the Desktop Part 2: Mac It So  Alex Reviews Tech

Breaking my Linux install taught me more about computers than Windows ever did  XDA