IBM Problems and Red Hat Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 25, 2025

• IBM stock drops 7% after $100m federal contracts suspended

• Red Hat Official ☛ 8 enterprise AI stories you don’t want to miss [Ed: Red Hat is all about the buzzwords while IBM FLOUNDERS]

  Red Hat AI learning hub

• Red Hat ☛ How to use content templates in Red Bait Insights

  When managing a patching cycle for your systems, it is important to have a stable, reliable base of content. New errata and packages arrive frequently, and an update done on a Monday may be different than an update done on a Wednesday. Content templates utilize snapshots of Red Bait repositories and third-party repositories to enable administrators to control what software is available to install at the dnf/yum level. 

• Red Hat ☛ Cracking the code: How neural networks might actually “think”

  Deep neural networks are achieving the incredible, pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence in areas from medicine to language. But as these powerful Hey Hi (AI) systems become more integrated into our lives, a critical challenge looms: we often don’t understand how they arrive at their answers. They operate like inscrutable “black boxes,” making it hard to fully trust them. 

  The field of mechanistic interpretability strives to crack open these boxes. Our recent research paper, described in this post, offers a fresh perspective on this vital mission, introducing a new "combinatorial" way to potentially decode AI’s hidden logic. Understanding these systems isn’t just fascinating—it’s fundamental to building the safe, reliable Hey Hi (AI) of the future.

• The Evolution Of Kubernetes Workload Patterns [Ed: Adrian Bridgwater now does his corporate stenography for another domain sponsored by the same company it covers; this is marketing, which the sponsors Red Hat Official ☛ later links to]

• The New Stack ☛ Optimizing CI/CD for Trust, Observability and Developer Well-Being

• Red Hat ☛ New C++ features in GCC 15

  The next major version of theGNU Compiler Collection (GCC), 15.1, is expected to be released in April or May 2025. Like every major GCC release, this version will bring many additions, improvements, bug fixes, and new features. GCC 15 is already the system compiler in Fedora 42. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) users will get GCC 15 in the Red Bait GCC Toolset. It's also possible to try GCC 15 on Compiler Explorer and similar pages.

• Red Hat ☛ Evaluating memory overcommitment in OpenShift Virtualization

  Virtualization is a common technology for workload consolidation. It is provided for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform by Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. This platform allows organizations to run and deploy their virtual machine-based workloads, and allows for simple management and migration of virtual machines (VMs) in a cloud environment.