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Snowflake bares its agentic AI plans by showcasing its Intelligence platform
As enterprises look to automate more processes with the help of AI-based agents that don’t require human intervention, Snowflake has showcased a new offering at its ongoing developer conference, Build 2024, which it claims is its agentic AI proposit...
2024-11-12 14:00
Intel Releases New CPU Microcode For Two New Security Advisories
It's the second Tuesday of the month and this Patch Tuesday brings new CPU microcode for mitigating the latest Intel processor security vulnerabilities and updates to some previously disclosed issues...
2024-11-12 12:42
Early Benchmarks: AMD EPYC 9005 Performance & Power Efficiency To Lead Further With Linux 6.13
One of the many changes to look forward to with the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel cycle is the AMD P-State driver to be used by default with the new EPYC 9005 series processors. While AMD Ryzen CPUs for a while now have been defaulting to the modern AMD P...
2024-11-12 11:10
Project Welcomes rsync.net as Gold Sponsor
The openSUSE Project is excited to announce rsync.net as the latest Gold Sponsor! The company’s support will empower the openSUSE community to continue building open-source solutions that serve users worldwide. Rsync.net’s secure cloud storage and ...
2024-11-12 11:00
Project Welcomes rsync.net as New Gold Sponsor
The openSUSE Project is excited to announce rsync.net as the latest Gold Sponsor! The company’s support will empower the openSUSE community to continue building open-source solutions that serve users worldwide. Rsync.net’s secure cloud storage and ...
2024-11-12 11:00
GNOME Mutter Lands Improved GPU Selection Logic For Laptops
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...
2024-11-12 09:30
Why your AI models stumble before the finish line
In 2023, enterprises across industries invested heavily in generative AI proof of concepts (POCs), eager to explore the technology’s potential. Fast-forward to 2024, companies face a new challenge: moving AI initiatives from prototype to production....
2024-11-12 09:00
Red Hat Acquiring Neural Magic To Bolster Open-Source AI Offerings
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...
2024-11-12 08:26
PeaZip 10.1 File Archiver Improves Resilience to Password Guessing Attacks
PeaZip 10.1 open-source archive manager is now available for download with support for scrypt KDF to improve resilience to password guessing attacks, increasing memory cost up to 1GB per instance. The post PeaZip 10.1 File Archiver Improves Resilience ...
2024-11-12 08:14
Mesa 25.0 Clover OpenCL Drops Support For NIR Drivers
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...
2024-11-12 07:00
AMD's Ninth Iteration Of Their XDNA Linux Driver Posted For Ryzen AI
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...
2024-11-12 06:30
Red Hat & Intel Developing "Climatik" For Power Capping AI In The Data Center
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...
2024-11-12 06:15
GCC 15 Lands New Optimization For AMD Zen 4 & Zen 5 CPUs
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...
2024-11-12 05:59
Linux Foundation Newsletter: November 2024
The November 2024 LF newsletter is a big one! Full of essential updates, can’t-miss events, research news, new open source initiatives, and more! We’re so glad you’re here. Check out the highlights, save the dates, and be sure to register for up...
2024-11-12 03:00
DXVK 2.5 Improves Memory Management in God of War and Other Video Games
DXVK 2.5 Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine is now available for download with improvements for several games. The post DXVK 2.5 Improves Memory Management in God of War and Other Video Games appeared first on 9to5Li...
2024-11-11 20:46
Reimagining the Fedora Linux installer: Anaconda’s new “Web UI”
The Fedora Linux installer, Anaconda, has been around for 25 years! While it’s been a reliable way to install Fedora Linux (and CentOS, RHEL, and others), many people — especially those new to Fedora — sometimes have issues with complexity and ja...
2024-11-11 15:45
Reimagining the Fedora Linux installer: Anaconda’s new Web UI
The Fedora Linux installer, Anaconda, has been around for 25 years! While it’s been a reliable way to install Fedora Linux (and CentOS, RHEL, and others), many people — especially those new to Fedora — sometimes have issues with complexity and ja...
2024-11-11 15:45
DXVK 2.5 Brings Memory Management Rewrite & Other Improvements
DXVK 2.5 was just released as the newest version of this open-source project implementing Direct3D APIs atop the Vulkan API for better handling of Windows games on Linux systems as used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) software...
2024-11-11 14:08
Memtest86+ 7.20 Adds Support For Intel Arrow Lake & AMD Zen 5
Memtet86+ 7.0 debuted back in January while now as we approach the end of 2024, Memtest86+ 7.20 is now available as the latest significant update to this open-source memory tester commonly used on Intel and AMD systems...
2024-11-11 13:55