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From incident responder to security steward: My journey to understanding Red Hat's open approach to vulnerability management

Red Hat News - Thu, 12/11/2025 - 08:00
For years, my career in cybersecurity was defined by a sense of urgency and criticality. As a leader of incident response teams, I lived on the front lines, constantly reacting to the latest software vulnerabilities, cyberattacks, and anomalies. My days were a blur of alerts, patch deployments, and the relentless pressure to mitigate risk and restore operations. It was a challenging, high-stakes environment where every vulnerability felt like a direct threat.Now, I've traded the immediate firefight for a more proactive battlefield as a manager within Red Hat Product Security. This has given me

Glibc Now Enabling 2MB THP On AArch64 By Default For Better Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 12/11/2025 - 04:45
The GNU C Library's malloc implementation is now enabling 2MB Transparent Huge Pages (THP) by default for AArch64 Linux. This is being done in the name of better performance -- a healthy 6.25% performance improvement is noted for SPEC with this change...

Qt Toolkit Lands IO_uring Abstraction

Phoronix - Thu, 12/11/2025 - 04:37
The newest feature to land in the cross-platform Qt toolkit is QIORing as an abstraction for Linux's IO_uring interface. This QIORing may also end up supporting Microsoft's Windows IORing implementation as well...

FreeBSD 15.0 vs. Ubuntu Linux For AMD EPYC Server Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 12/10/2025 - 23:30
Given the recent release of FreeBSD 15, I started off my testing in looking at how FreeBSD 15.0 improves performance versus FreeBSD 14.3. Now it's onto the next important question: how is FreeBSD 15.0 performing relative to Linux on servers? Here are some benchmarks exploring that topic today.

AMD FSR SDK 2.1 Released With FSR Redstone - Windows-Only For Now

Phoronix - Wed, 12/10/2025 - 22:16
AMD FSR SDK 2.1 is now available that includes their "FSR Redstone" machine learning based upscaling tech for gaming..

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