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Building Windows Apps Without Leaving Linux  HackerNoon

One week after the Copy Fail vulnerability, a new Linux local privilege escalation bug has been made public. This time around there are no patches or CVEs yet for this "Dirty Frag" vulnerability as the embargo was broken early and thus the security researcher went ahead and published earlier than anticipated...

Dirty Frag Vulnerability Made Public Early: Root Privilege On All Distributions  Phoronix

We're excited to share what's coming for Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) at Red Hat Summit 2026. Sessions will cover everything from virtual machine (VM) modernization and AI workload scaling to cost optimization and developer velocity.If you're new to the service, ROSA is a fully managed OpenShift platform, jointly engineered and supported by Red Hat and Amazon Web Services (AWS). It's a service that lets you build, deploy, and manage containerized, virtualized, and AI-enabled applications, providing the user with a consistent hybrid cloud experience while Red Hat and AWS handle the u

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, a native feature included with Red Hat OpenShift, lets you migrate your virtual machine (VM) workloads from your legacy virtualization platform to a modern, consistent, and comprehensive hybrid cloud application platform. OpenShift Virtualization is based on KubeVirt, an upstream open source project that delivers container-native virtualization by using a kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) within a Kubernetes container.OpenShift Virtualization helps you transform and consolidate your on-prem, cloud, and virtualization platforms into a modern and unified tech

SiliconANGLE theCUBE- Red Hat 2026 Summit PreviewtheCUBE's Rob Strechay sits down with Ashesh Badani, CPO of Red Hat, to explore how enterprises are turning AI ambition into operational reality. Badani outlines Red Hat’s platform vision, covering inference optimization, token economics and the rise of hybrid, multicloud agentic workloads running at scale. Learn more Announcing the winners of the 20th annual Red Hat Innovation AwardsFor two decades, the Red Hat Innovation Awards have celebrated the groundbreaking technological achievements of our customers worldwide. These organizations dem

As enterprises scale their digital operations migrating to modern, cloud-native application platforms, security teams are consistently confronted with significant challenges. The dynamic and distributed nature of these environments makes traditional, perimeter-focused security tools and methodologies inadequate. Security for a modern hybrid cloud environment requires granular visibility, context-aware protection, and unified management across continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to live production runtimes. This fundamental shift toward using containers, virtual machi

As Ansible adoption grows, a challenge can arise: How do organizations track automation efforts across the entire enterprise? A common solution is to establish a Center of Excellence (CoE) for Ansible, helping organizations move from isolated automation efforts to a scalable, coordinated enterprise strategy. What is a Center of Excellence for Ansible?A CoE for Ansible is a group responsible for setting automation standards and promoting Ansible’s collaborative open source nature. The CoE acts as an enablement and governance body, allowing for more effective automation across the organization

Following Linux 7.1 beginning to phase out i486 CPU support and in turn drivers like those for the old AMD Elan SoCs now being removed, for Linux 7.2 the processor support removal is going further to now include some i586 and i686 class processors...

AMD K5 CPUs The Latest To Be Retired With Linux's Aging & Stagnate Hardware Support  Phoronix

Star Labs StarFighter Linux Laptop Finally Goes on Sale  Linuxiac

Ubuntu Touch OTA 1.3 Improves Handling of Desktop Apps on Lomiri and Fixes Bugs  9to5Linux

StarFighter Linux laptop with detachable webcam and premium specs is finally shipping  Liliputing

KDE Gear 26.04.1 Is Out with More Improvements for Your Favorite KDE Apps  9to5Linux

Ubuntu just showed Microsoft how to add AI without the mess  XDA

The Realtek RTL8159 has been appearing in some 10G-rated USB network adapters at online retailers, some for less than $100 USD. But currently the RTL8159 is only supported by Realtek's out-of-tree Linux kernel driver, but fortunately there will be mainline support coming with the Linux 7.2 kernel this summer...

Linux 7.2 To Support Realtek RTL8159 10GbE USB Ethernet  Phoronix

Merged today to Mesa 26.2-devel was a reorganization of the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver code to better separate the graphics and multimedia acceleration code from the rest of the driver...

The Flattened Image Tree "FIT" 1.0 specification was recently finalized for this container format used by U-Boot on embedded systems for providing various boot components like DTBs, the Linux kernel image, and more into a single file...

Flattened Image Tree 1.0 Specification For Embedded Linux Systems  Phoronix