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The keys that Microsoft uses to sign for Secure Boot are expiring at the end of June 2026. Here is what you need to know:Secure Boot-enabled systems will continue to boot after June 2026 whether they are immediately updated or not.Red Hat has released new shims, signed by multiple certificates, for all supported RHEL 9 and RHEL 10 streams; RHEL 8 will receive the new shim in June 2026.To prepare your systems for the future, it’s best to update your firmware database, if an update is available, and update your shim.What is Secure Boot?UEFI Secure Boot is a security feature that permits only s

Over the past year, the conversation around artificial intelligence has undergone a massive evolution, shifting from isolated pilots or experiments with standalone tools. For leaders, the true challenge—and the ultimate prize—lies in building a fully AI-enabled enterprise. This means moving beyond experimentation into true operationalization, creating a scalable framework where AI drives both front-office revenue growth and back-office efficiency.At Red Hat, we are approaching this transformation with a dual mandate. First, we are focused on building enterprise-grade AI products and platfo

Red Hat Summit demonstration booth featuring a model train track, edge computing hardware, monitoring displays, and supporting infrastructure used to demonstrate AI-driven automation at the edge.Many AI demos stop at detection. A dashboard highlights an object, a model produces a classification, or a graph updates in real time. Those are valuable building blocks, but operational environments often require something more immediate—systems that can react locally, autonomously, and in near time.Using the Red Hat edge portfolio, we set out to explore what happens when AI moves beyond observatio

The theme for TM Forum Digital Transformation World (DTW) Ignite 2026 in Copenhagen is "The Future. Faster." As we move further into the decade, connectivity has evolved from a utility into the central nervous system of modern society. Telecommunications (telco) networks now support the most critical infrastructure—from remote healthcare and smart utility grids to national defense and emergency response. The transition from "telco to techco" means that they’re delivering the intelligent foundations that power a global digital economy.However, this increased reliance on the network brings a

"Every AI lab is losing money serving your company right now. They know it. And they are doing it on purpose."That was the opening line of an article that landed in my inbox the same week 3 numbers crystallized to make it clear why open inference is no longer optional.A developer built a simple notes app over a weekend using an open source coding agent with a direct API key. One page, one feature. Cost: $50. The next day, a $20/month subscription provided 50x more tokens.One engineer on our inference team consumed 300 million tokens through open-weight models in 2 days, doing the same work tha

There is a growing realization across the industry that we've reached an AI tipping point.For the last couple of years, the conversation has been dominated by the question of what is possible with AI. Today, that question has shifted to, "now that we have it, how do we control it?" We're also moving from a world where computation was plentiful to one where it’s becoming restricted again—not just by the availability of GPUs, but by the boundaries of geography, regulation, and trust.Many organizations are putting on the brakes, realizing that a "cloud-only" AI strategy can introduce complexi

For the millions of visually impaired individuals worldwide, the lack of access to trained guide dogs represents a severe accessibility gap. While robotic alternatives exist, they have historically been limited by high costs and short battery life due to the heavy on-device processing required for autonomy. This year at DTW Ignite 2026 in Copenhagen, we are showcasing the Catalyst project, "The robotic dog: AI at the edge, sustainable revenue at scale." This Catalyst project demonstrates our collaboration with AsiaInfo, ATT, China Telecom, Netcracker, Omantel, and ZTE, and shows how intelligen

It's no secret that IT operations is a complex area. Teams face demanding workloads, where many tasks have to be completed quickly. Objectives typically focus on smooth and resilient operations, and enabling fast innovation to support organizational needs. In their distinct role, security teams must manage risk and compliance, respond quickly to incidents, protect data, and govern access. All these priorities must be simultaneously met, and this leaves the ITOps and SecOps teams searching for the best ways to collaborate. In this article, This article provides an overview of how Red Hat Ansibl

At the OpenShift Commons Gathering in Amsterdam on March 23—a Day Zero event for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026—attendees got a deep look into the engine room of 1 of Turkey's largest private banks. Emirhan Bilge Bulut, an Expert System Engineer at Garanti BBVA, joined Gokhan Goksu, a Senior Solution Architect at Red Hat, to discuss the unglamorous but essential infrastructure management required to support 30 million customers and 1.2 billion daily transactions. Figure 1. Emirhan Bilge Bulut, an Expert System Engineer at Garanti BBVA, joined Gokhan Goksu, a Solution Architect at Red

Amazon Linux 2 reaches end of life (EOL) on June 30, 2026. If your migration isn't already underway, the window to move deliberately rather than reactively is narrowing. Migrating business-critical workloads to a supported operating system (OS) takes real time. Legacy runtimes, compliance requirements, and limited change windows all affect how quickly you can move.When evaluating your next steps, don't just ask “What do we migrate to?” Consider what kind of long-term Linux strategy you want to build. How you answer that question will shape not just this migration, but how smoothly your inf

We’re moving beyond simple prompts. The next frontier is agentic AI: autonomous systems that don’t just talk, but act across your enterprise. But as we move into this era, I’m hearing a consistent concern from our customers: How do we adopt these agents without losing control of our infrastructure or our data?In the Forrester report, “Understand your agentic AI platform options,” there is a vital takeaway: agentic AI is a portfolio problem. Many organizations are falling into the trap of trying to centralize their AI under a single, proprietary vendor. At Red Hat, we believe that pat

InfoWorld - IBM and Red Hat want to become the ‘security clearinghouse’ for open source applications in the enterpriseInfoWorld looks at IBM and Red Hat's Project Lightwell, a $5 billion initiative backed by 20,000 engineers to act as an AI-powered security clearinghouse for enterprise open source software. The program aims to accelerate the discovery and remediation of vulnerabilities by safely backporting validated fixes directly into active production environments without causing disruptive upgrades. Learn more The future of AI demands a hybrid foundationRed Hat's Andrew Brown argues th

In the dynamic digital landscape of the Middle East, we are seeing a shift from AI experimentation to production-ready innovation. This transition is becoming a key factor in driving national competitiveness and economic resilience across the region.The opportunity ahead is significant. Projections suggest AI could contribute USD 320 billion to the Middle East’s economy by 2030, with Egypt expected to generate nearly 8% of its GDP from AI in the same timeframe.However, capturing this value requires navigating a marketplace defined by contrast. The region is a mosaic of digital ambitions wher

Telecommunications (telco) service providers face a landscape of massive operational complexity. As they adopt 5G standalone architectures and multivendor radio access networks (RANs), they must manage billions of events across hundreds of thousands of network elements every day. Manual, script-based operations are no longer sufficient to keep pace with these demands.Transitioning to an autonomous intelligent network is now a foundational requirement for service providers to remain competitive. This shift addresses 3 critical priorities for executive leadership:Creating new revenueReducing cos

As we at Red Hat continue to evolve our products, we are also transforming how you consume the information needed to run them. We are excited to announce a wave of significant enhancements coming to the Red Hat documentation experience at docs.redhat.com.These changes are rolling out over time, with the documentation for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 serving as the pioneer for this new look and feel. Here’s a breakdown of what you can expect and how these changes will improve your workflow.Finding your way: Unified table of contentsOne of the most noticeable updates is the introduc

It’s no surprise that AI has altered the technology landscape and added more complexity for IT teams. And when it comes to vulnerability management and patching, scheduled security is now outpaced by AI-detected vulnerabilities. This new complexity means our traditional, time-bound routines have become a liability—creating a lag time between threat discovery, containment, and remediation.Anthropic’s recent Project Glasswing update proves what security teams have known for a while: The traditional patch cycle simply doesn't work when exposures are discovered at machine speed. Anthropic st

Future historians will remember spring 2026 as the dawn of AI-driven security vulnerability reporting. On April 7, Anthropic announced a preview of its Claude Mythos AI model, made available to select companies as part of Project Glasswing. The initiative claimed it had discovered thousands of high and critical severity vulnerabilities across the open source ecosystem. Three weeks later, the Xint initiative announced a Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability it named Copy Fail. A few days later, the world woke up to another vulnerability named Dirty Frag, and then another named F

Every day, I talk to IT executives, commercial leaders, and partners who are facing the exact same pressure: How do we move from AI experimentation to true enterprise production?If you glance at the tech headlines today, you’d think the answer is simple. The industry has become utterly obsessed with the concept of agentic AI—the promise of autonomous software agents executing complex corporate workflows with the flick of a switch. The mainstream narrative treats AI like a standalone magic box. Buy the right proprietary model, plug it in, and watch your operational headaches vanish.But out

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4.21 introduces highly anticipated networking design flows to simplify network management. Tailored to VM network requirements, this complete workflow lets you more efficiently create networks, configure them on specific nodes, and provide reliable access to virtual machines (VMs). The new workflow helps create complex configurations by breaking them into smaller, simpler steps, while still providing the same functionality.Explore the highlights of these networking enhancements:Centralized physical networks pageA physical network is a logical entity that was ad

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Copy-Fail (CVE-2026-31431) and how Red Hat OpenShift’s defense-in-depth approach prevented container escape despite a vulnerable kernel. I spent time actively trying to break out of an OpenShift container, achieved root inside the pod almost immediately, and still couldn’t escape to the host. The kernel vulnerability was real. The exploit path was real. The defenses still held. While I was wrapping up this article, another related variant, DirtyDecrypt (CVE-2026-31635), started circulating publicly alongside exploit discussion and proof-of-concept cover