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KMSCON 9.3 Released With Mouse Support By Default, Other Improvements

Phoronix - Fri, 01/23/2026 - 18:58
KMSCON as a KMS/DRM-based virtual console emulator in user-space has been released. KMSCON is one of the leading solutions for potentially replacing the in-kernel Virtual Terminal (VT) implementation...

Servo 0.0.4 Browser Engine Released & Finally Supporting Multiple Windows

Phoronix - Fri, 01/23/2026 - 18:40
Servo 0.0.4 is out today as the newest monthly update to this open-source, Rust-based web browser engine. Building off recent Servo embedding API additions, Servo 0.0.4 introduces support for multiple browser windows...

AMD Lands Fresh Performance Improvements For RDNA4 In RadeonSI Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 01/23/2026 - 09:21
While slightly too late for making it into the Mesa 26.0 release that branched yesterday, merged now to Mesa Git for Q2's Mesa 26.1 release are some new RadeonSI Gallium3D (OpenGL) driver optimizations for the latest AMD Radeon RDNA4 graphics cards...

Zero trust workload identity manager generally available on Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat News - Fri, 01/23/2026 - 08:00
We’re excited to announce the general availability of zero trust workload identity manager, a Red Hat solution that delivers universal, runtime-attested identities for workloads in your cloud-native deployments.Modern applications run across multiple clusters, clouds, and regions, and traditional identity mechanisms—long-lived secrets, static certificates, or provider-specific Identity and Access Management (IAM)—struggle to keep up. Zero trust workload identity manager solves this by issuing ephemeral, cryptographically attested identities to workloads at runtime. This enables your appl

Northrop Grumman scales enterprise Kubernetes for AI and hybrid cloud with Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat News - Fri, 01/23/2026 - 08:00
The journey to enterprise-wide Kubernetes adoption can be a "wild, wild west" of disparate environments and challenging security for some organizations. That's the landscape Northrop Grumman faced in 2020. At Red Hat OpenShift Commons Gathering, software engineering managers Joe McConnell and Randy Ellefson shared the lessons they learned while building a modern, multicloud Kubernetes platform for Northrop Grumman built on Red Hat OpenShift. Image 1: From Left, Randy Ellefson and Joe McConnell, Northrop Grumman’s Chief Information and Digital OfficeStandardizing on Red Hat OpenShiftInitially

Friday Five — January 23, 2026

Red Hat News - Fri, 01/23/2026 - 08:00
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2025 recap: Top videos on Red Hat TV

Red Hat News - Fri, 01/23/2026 - 08:00
In case you missed it, we rounded up the top 5 videos on Red Hat TV from 2025. Red Hat TV is a no-cost streaming platform featuring Red Hat customers, partners, and solution experts to help you build skills, gain insights, and get the tools you need to stay ahead of the latest technology trends.Watch the top episodes from 2025 now: 1. Building the Future Using Bootable ContainersTune in for an in-depth overview of image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), a modern approach to building, deploying, and managing RHEL systems. This approach offers significant advantages in consistency, secur

Linux GPU Driver Loophole Being Fixed For Unprivileged Users Being Able To Tap Unbounded Kernel Memory

Phoronix - Fri, 01/23/2026 - 04:25
An oversight in the Linux kernel's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) graphics driver common code could allow unprivileged users to trigger unbounded kernel memory consumption for a potential system-wide out-of-memory "OOM" situation...

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