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Patch PHP2Shell now and prepare for the next AI-found CVE
Six months ago, I wrote that vulnerabilities were going to come in waves. I undersold it. In April and May, Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, Fragnesia and CIFSwitch hit the Linux kernel. Researchers have kept…

Diagnose failed jobs and re-prioritize queued work in place with Fuzzball
Fuzzball names the failed rank in multi-node jobs, re-prioritizes queued work in place, and puts compute policy grants and deletion in the CLI.

Get more AI speed from your DGX Spark with RLC Pro AI
See how RLC Pro AI did on three Spark Arena tests on a NVIDIA DGX Spark, then set up the same host and rerun every test yourself, step by step.

What a correct answer costs on a Strix Halo depends on how hard the question is
I measured 27 local LLMs on a Strix Halo with a power meter. The cheapest model for easy questions costs 37x more once questions get hard.

Tenable Nessus scans now reflect the CVE fixes CIQ delivers to RLC Pro
New Tenable plugins read CIQ advisories, so Nessus scans of RLC Pro hosts reflect the CVE fixes CIQ delivers, including on LTS releases

Removing roadblocks to discovery: David Godlove’s path from neuroscience to Fuzzball
Meet David Godlove and see how his path through neuroscience, NIH HPC, and Singularity/Apptainer helps CIQ make Fuzzball more accessible to researchers.

Who actually decides what lands on your Linux servers
Frontier Linux moves fast. Legacy Enterprise Linux moves on the vendor's schedule. Enterprise Linux Manager gives the decision back to your team.
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Fuzzball v4.3: your GPUs serve a model in one command
One command serves a Hugging Face model from a replica pool on your own GPUs. 11 validated presets, autoscaled endpoints, persistent local volumes.

SingularityCE reaches end of life. Apptainer carries on
Sylabs ends SingularityCE, SingularityPRO, and Singularity Enterprise on October 25, 2026. Apptainer, formerly Singularity, carries on.

Bring your lifecycle workflow to RLC Pro with CIQ Enterprise Linux Manager
Migrating to RLC Pro? CIQ Enterprise Linux Manager mirrors content, curates views, rolls back, and provisions hosts from one control plane.

Entitlement without enforcement: how ELM handles content access
Entitlement resolves once at the mirror. No subscription-enforcement service to stand up, and no host checks in during a rollout.