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A secured agent that can't reach anything is just expensive autocomplete with a badge. In "Why prompt-level guardrails aren't enough," I walked through how Red Hat AI allows you to give each agent a cryptographic identity and lock down what it can touch. That solves the trust problem, but it doesn't solve the connectivity problem, and the connectivity problem is where I see most enterprise agent rollouts stall—not because the model fails, but because the plumbing does.In our previous articles, we talked about how 3 failures hit a single AI agent deployment overnight—43 duplicate tickets, $

Insurance remains an incredibly data-heavy industry with deep roots. Based on product offerings and strict regulatory data retention rules, a significant number of existing systems, some decades-old, are still in operation. It's not uncommon to find COBOL-coded applications or AS/400s continuing to run mission-critical workloads.There's a valid reason for this: the insurance sector was an early adopter of these data-heavy environments, and the technology worked well.However, managing this data over decades created heavy technical debt. For example, liability insurance policies often require da

Linux kernel security faces challenge with surge in CVEs  SC Media

Tracking the Reality Behind 440 Linux Kernel CVE Disclosures: Bulk Assignment to Already-Fixed Bugs and AI Auditing  XenoSpectrum

Linux Gets NVIDIA Reflex Support in New CachyOS Proton Translation Layer  TechPowerUp

Just one week after releasing Lemonade 11.0, the Lemonade 11.5 local AI server was released today for this open-source AMD backed project during their AMD Advancing AI event...

New to Linux? This 10-day checklist will help you settle in nice and easy  Yahoo Tech

Healthcare IT roundup: clinical AI, HIE access, open-source  MarketScale

Mozilla Firefox 154 Enters Public Beta Testing, Here’s What to Expect  9to5Linux

Sam Lantinga of Valve and SDL fame has landed HDR10 rendering support into the Simple DirectMedia Library...

SDL Lands HDR10 Rendering Support  Phoronix

System76 developers today released COSMIC Epoch 1.4 as the newest stable release to their Rust-based desktop environment...

RefluXFS Linux Kernel Vulnerability Lets Attackers Gain Root Access  CyberSecurityNews

RefluXFS Linux Kernel Vulnerability Lets Attackers Gain Root Access  CyberSecurityNews

A Linux utility to control USB power per-port on smart USB hubs  Adafruit

COSMIC 1.4 Desktop Environment Introduces New Default Sound Theme  9to5Linux

Ubuntu snap-confine Flaw Could Give Local Users Root on Default Desktop Installs  The Hacker News

RefluXFS: A Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation to Root in XFS (CVE-2026-64600)  Qualys

Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days  The Register

AMD EPYC Turin With PCIe 5.0 Storage Shows Off Nice Gains On Linux 7.2  Phoronix