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Linux kernel maintainers suggest a ‘kill switch’ to protect systems until a zero-day vulnerability is patched  csoonline.com

The open-source Radeon "R300g" driver living within the Mesa codebase for supporting the aging ATI (AMD) Radeon 9500 "R300" through Radeon X1000 "R500" series graphics processors is going through a big code restructuring as part of a big undertaking in 2026... Yes, 24 years after the ATI R300 GPUs first released, thanks to a devoted open-source developer fan, there is a significant improvement in the works...

If you watched the day one keynote at Red Hat Summit 2026, you heard me talk about critical inflection points that have defined the IT industry. Linux and Kubernetes formed two big waves in recent memory, and AI is undeniably causing another shift. Each of these events was disruptive, but the seismic impact of AI continues to resonate as we face a widening gap between environmental complexity and the flat resources available to manage it. Many of us are being asked to launch new ambitious AI initiatives while simultaneously maintaining the legacy systems the business depends on. To bridge this

The age of generative AI brings great opportunity and new risks. As large organizations adopt agentic AI and face increasingly strict digital sovereignty requirements, the underlying infrastructure must provide integrity, isolation, and identity management to protect sensitive data, workloads, and end users. Protecting organizational reputation, maintaining and building trust in the software we interact with every day is not just a secondary requirement, but the fundamental mission.Imagine a regional public utility responsible for keeping the lights on for millions of homes, schools, and hosp

Artificial intelligence (AI) workloads are transforming industries from financial services to healthcare. However, the use of AI models introduces risk around protecting models, weights, and data from malicious actors. While the industry has established robust traditional security frameworks to protect data at rest (with disk encryption, such as LUKS) and data in transit (with encrypted communication channels like TLS), a gap remains around data that's in use.When sensitive data, such as patient medical records or proprietary AI model weights are actively loaded into the CPU, GPU, and memory f

You've tried it. You've pulled a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server from a GitHub repo, wrestled it into a container, sorted out authentication yourself, and hoped it would hold up in production. That is the state of MCP adoption in the enterprise today—promising protocol, but painful deployment.Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4, part of the Red Hat AI portfolio, takes a different approach. We're introducing the MCP catalog (now in developer preview): a curated catalog of MCP servers that you can discover, deploy, and manage directly on Red Hat OpenShift. It ships pre-loaded with MCP servers from Re

As enterprises move from the hype of generative AI to building governed, production-ready AI applications, several new challenges have emerged. Currently, many businesses route all of their prompts to massive, cloud-based LLMs, which can result in excessive costs, high latency, and unnecessary data exposure. To solve this problem, Red Hat in collaboration with NVIDIA is bringing enterprise-grade AI development directly to the developer’s desk. We are excited to announce the development preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL 10) on NVIDIA DGX Spark. Powered by the NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blac

Over the last year, Red Hat and HashiCorp have collaborated to create integrations that bring together infrastructure automation and secrets management. Our existing Red Hat Ansible Certified Content Collections have enabled organizations to use HashiCorp Vault, HashiCorp Terraform, and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for infrastructure automation and secrets management.HashiCorp Vault integration for secrets managementThe Red Hat Ansible Certified Content Collection for HashiCorp Vault has enhanced how teams handle sensitive credentials in automated workflows. With version 1.0 and beyond,

As organizations continue to leverage edge computing for AI workloads running near the source of data generation, Red Hat aims to deliver the enterprise support that companies need to capture the full potential of AI operations at the edge. Following our successful technology preview, we are thrilled to announce that Red Hat Device Edge is now available on NVIDIA Jetson Orin, aligning with the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.8.During the tech preview phase, we saw tremendous interest from customers wanting to extend AI capabilities to the far edge, whether they are leveraging AI for adva

No enterprise application exists in a vacuum. Applications interact with services, other applications, external resources, databases, and more. As these applications scale, so does the complexity—more containers, more datasets, and more moving parts.At Red Hat, our view is that most developers should not need to manage containers or Kubernetes directly. The most effective approach is to focus on writing business logic and push code to production through a platform like Red Hat OpenShift, using capabilities such as Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces and the OpenShift application platform to handle

As AI adoption grows and agents multiply inference demands, a reliable inference foundation becomes critical to running AI initiatives profitably.Today at Red Hat Summit, we are excited to announce that Red Hat AI Inference now runs on any managed Kubernetes service. This expansion enables organizations to leverage a consistent, open inference stack and Kubernetes-native operations wherever they already run their workloads. At launch, we are delivering validated deployment blueprints on 2 platforms: CoreWeave Kubernetes Service (CKS) and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). With this release, Red H

Voyager and Red Hat Propel Red Hat Enterprise Linux into Orbit with Space Edge Micro Datacenters  HPCwire

Linux bitten by second severe vulnerability in as many weeks  Ars Technica

'Apple does this and y'all love it': Microsoft defends its CPU trick to boost Windows 11 performance, after critics accuse it of 'cheating'  TechRadar

Quietly sneaking out at the end of last week was Vulkan 1.4.351 as the newest spec update to this high performance graphics and compute API...

Ubuntu 26.04 vs. Fedora 44: After years of testing both Linux distros, here's my verdict  ZDNET

CVE-2026-43500: Dirty Frag Linux Priv Esc Flaw  SOC Prime

First i486 Support, Now Linux Abandons i586 and i686  PC Perspective

Embedded Linux on the Tria AUBoard-15P FPGA with Whitney Knitter  Hackster.io

Experts propose Linux kernel "killswitch" following worrying recent security issues  TechRadar