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Next week, thousands of IT leaders will gather in Atlanta for Red Hat Summit. The agenda covers everything from AI to digital sovereignty, but in the customer conversations I have continued to have over the past 24 months, a different topic keeps coming up: whether the virtualization platform they've been running for years and depend on is still the right foundation for their workloads today, and whether it sets them up for what's coming next. Most of them are already evaluating alternatives.For a long time, virtualization was a "set it and forget it" part of the stack. That isn't the case any

A financial services firm is deploying an AI assistant to help underwriters review policies, analyze risk documents, and answer compliance questions. The model is grounded in the firm’s own document collection, drawing answers directly from underwriting manuals, regulatory filings, and internal procedures. The business case is solid.Then the security review starts:Can a crafted prompt trick the model into ignoring its system instructions and exposing confidential data?What happens when a response surfaces personally identifiable information (PII) that's embedded in the retrieved documents?Is

Copy Fail: What You Need to Know About the Most Severe Linux Threat in Years  Unit 42

New stealthy Quasar Linux malware targets software developers  BleepingComputer

I stopped being afraid of Linux terminal commands once Claude started explaining them  MakeUseOf

COSMIC 1.0.12 Desktop Brings Improvements to Files, Terminal, and More  9to5Linux

This Linux tool lets me mix distro packages without breaking everything  MakeUseOf

After the merge request was open the past three months for code originally authored eight months ago, the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver for Linux systems is now advertising support for descriptor heaps with the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap extension. But for the moment at least it's treated as experimental...

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Experimental Support For Descriptor Heaps  Phoronix

Latest Steam Client Update Adds Support for Valve’s New Steam Controller  9to5Linux

Orion for Linux issues new beta  OMG! Ubuntu

I tried 4 lightweight Linux distros on a 4GB laptop, and one surprised me  MakeUseOf

Expanded HDMI 2.1, Coming Soon To An AMD Powered Linux Box Near You  PC Perspective

The Khronos Group today announced OpenCL 3.1 as the first major spec update in six years and incorporating various features into the core spec for enhancing AI and HPC capabilities. As a very exciting development, Rusticl as Mesa's lead OpenCL driver implementation is ready to go with same-day OpenCL 3.1 support pending...

The Future of Linux Gaming: Why Intel Merged Jay Into Mesa  HackerNoon

I run a full Linux desktop in Docker just because I can  How-To Geek

Linux on PS5 benchmarked, with PlayStation games impressing on Steam Machine alternative  Notebookcheck

Security researchers uncover Linux exploit that affects all 'distributions shipped since 2017'  PC Gamer

I switched to a tiling WM and stopped wasting time on window management  MakeUseOf

ExpressVPN rolls out desktop update across Mac, Windows, and Linux – here's what's new  Tom's Guide