CERN Dumps RHEL for Debian
CERN is transitioning its industrial control systems from RHEL/CentOS to Debian to avoid ‘forced obsolescence’ of older hardware. This move signals a significant shift in high-energy physics research infrastructure, prioritizing hardware longevity over corporate-backed distributions.
NVIDIA’s AI Security Alliance Joins Linux Foundation
An AI security consortium led by NVIDIA and backed by companies like SpaceX and Palantir has moved to the Linux Foundation. The shift aims to create a neutral, industry-wide security stack to audit and secure open-source AI models against emerging threats.
Intel Boosts vLLM Performance on Arc GPUs
Intel has updated its LLM-Scaler-vLLM project to improve the speed of the first token generated by Qwen models and overall performance on Intel Arc graphics hardware via a Docker-based setup.