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

Phoronix - Fri, 05/08/2026 - 08:08
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...

Your guide to Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) at Red Hat Summit 2026

Red Hat News - Fri, 05/08/2026 - 08:00
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

Learn OpenShift Virtualization: 8 resources to help you get started

Red Hat News - Fri, 05/08/2026 - 08:00
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

Friday Five — May 8, 2026

Red Hat News - Fri, 05/08/2026 - 08:00
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

Bringing new levels of security to the cloud-native frontier: Unified posture management and real-time protection

Red Hat News - Fri, 05/08/2026 - 08:00
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

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