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Making today very exciting in Linux 7.1 merge window land was a pull request being sent out for introducing the new, modern NTFS file-system driver. Linus Torvalds has yet to comment if he's going to merge the new driver but it looks like it's ready for providing a better Linux NTFS experience over the current NTFS3 driver that was upstreamed by Paragon Software a few years ago and hasn't seen too much feature progress...

Confidential computing is a complex topic, and often requires a deep understanding of hardware, kernel, and orchestration layers. The generic definition is "protecting data in use," but it's more than that. It's about verifying that the environment we are running has not been tampered with, that we don't need to trust Kubernetes administrators and the platform or even hardware we are running our application on.Confidential computing is a major pillar when it comes to data sovereignty and the Red Hat zero trust security principle. Confidential containers aims to bring this technology at the Kub

At MWC 2026, Telstra announced a major step forward in its journey towards building one of the world’s most advanced autonomous networks in collaboration with Red Hat and other industry partners. Telstra executed a proof-of-concept within a live telecommunication (telco) cloud environment to autonomously detect and resolve an unplanned infrastructure outage by shifting critical network applications to healthy infrastructure in just minutes. The result shows how a multivendor, AI-native architecture can enable self-healing operations at scale. Central to this exciting new capability are the o

In our previous 3 articles, we laid the groundwork for a protected Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem by analyzing the current threat landscape, implementing robust authentication and authorization, and exploring critical logging and runtime security measures. These focused on who can access what, and how to monitor those interactions. Now, we'll shift the focus to the physical and virtual environments in which these systems live. Of course, security-focused development is only half the battle. Deploying an MCP server with weak security protections can negate even the most robust code, as

InformationWeek - Red Hat CIO Marco Bill: Resource control is key for AI sovereigntyRed Hat CIO, Marco Bill, explains why a comprehensive inventory of data, infrastructure, and architecture is essential for maintaining security, ensuring regulatory compliance, and navigating the complexities of a globally interconnected AI ecosystem. Learn more Navigating the Mythos-haunted world of platform securityAdvanced AI models like Claude Mythos are revolutionizing vulnerability discovery, but they also risk industrializing cyberattacks. This Red Hat blog explores how context and curation remain the

Steam's Proton Gets Wine 11 Gaming Performance Improvements, Valve Launches Arm64 Compatibility Layer  TechPowerUp

A2A Solidifies Cross-Vendor Agent Interoperability  Let's Data Science

Proton 11 Enters Beta Testing with Support for Breath of Fire IV, Unknown Faces  9to5Linux

Valve and CodeWeavers have just released Proton 11.0 Beta as their first beta milestone for this software that powers Steam Play now rebased against upstream Wine 11.0...

Proton 11.0 Beta Released With More Games Playable On Steam Play  Phoronix

The extensible scheduler "sched_ext" code for allowing Linux scheduling behavior to be defined via BPF programs is seeing some useful improvements with the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel...

CIQ RLC Pro: NIST-Certified Post-Quantum Linux  Quantum Zeitgeist

This Linux shell revives the worst version of Windows, and it's glorious  How-To Geek

Canonical today released Mir 2.26 as the newest feature release for this compositor for building Wayland-based shells. Notable with Mir 2.26 is a Rust-based input platform is in development as part of their broader effort for bringing Rust code into Mir...

The media subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.1 merge window and includes new hardware support...

New Media Drivers Merged For Linux 7.1  Phoronix

CIQ Delivers the First Enterprise Linux Compliance Platform for Federal Cryptographic Validation and Post-Quantum Readiness  PR Newswire

CIQ Delivers the First Enterprise Linux Compliance Platform for Federal Cryptographic Validation and Post-Quantum Readiness  Yahoo Finance

Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus Performance In 340+ Linux Benchmarks Review  Phoronix

Last month Intel began shipping the Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus "Arrow Lake Refresh" desktop processor. This is a mighty interesting processor for the $349 USD price point with more cores and a larger cache compared to the Core Ultra 7 265K and capable of delivering much of the performance of the flagship Core Ultra 9 285K Arrow Lake processor. In today's article is a look at how well the Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus performs under Linux with more than 340 different benchmarks representing a range of Linux workloads from gaming to creator to developer and technical computing uses.