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Now generally available: Red Hat Confirmed Sovereign Support drives digital autonomy for global enterprise

Red Hat News - Tue, 04/21/2026 - 08:00
Geopolitical shifts and evolving regulatory frameworks like the EU AI Act, the NIS2 Directive, and the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) continue to redefine the landscape for global enterprises. This has shifted digital sovereignty from an abstract compliance concept to a critical strategic mandate for risk mitigation. For organizations in highly regulated industries, achieving true digital autonomy requires more than just localizing physical data centers. It demands developing a strong sovereign support model to help build, deploy and run critical workloads in-jurisdiction. This requ

Linux 7.1 KVM Adds "Very Experimental" Support For pKVM Protected Guests

Phoronix - Tue, 04/21/2026 - 03:59
The Kernel-based Virtual Machine changes were recently merged for the Linux 7.1 merge window for further enhancing KVM as this important piece of the open-source virtualization stack...

While New NTFS Driver Merged, NTFS3 Driver Sees Fixes & Minor Changes For Linux 7.1

Phoronix - Tue, 04/21/2026 - 03:41
Last week saw the "NTFS resurrection" as Linux Torvalds put it with the new/overhauled NTFS driver having been merged for Linux 7.1. Even still, the NTFS3 driver that was contributed a few years ago by Paragon Software remains in the mainline kernel and today were some fixes/improvements merged for that existing driver...

Box64 0.4.2 Begins Working On POWER PPC64LE Backend, Support For SteamRT3 + Proton 11

Phoronix - Tue, 04/21/2026 - 01:16
While FEX-Emu has been garnering a lot of attention due to being sponsored by Valve and slated to be used by the Steam Frame for running Linux x86_64 binaries on AArch64, the Box64 project continues moving along with similar goals for x86_64 binaries on other CPU architectures...

Git 2.54 Released With New Experimental "git history" Command

Phoronix - Tue, 04/21/2026 - 01:03
Git developers continue working toward Git 3.0 while out today is Git 2.54 with a few interesting additions...

GNU Coreutils 9.11 Brings New Performance Improvements: Up To 15x Faster cat

Phoronix - Mon, 04/20/2026 - 22:48
It's not only the uutil's Rust Coreutils project seeing performance improvements but some increased healthy competition now from GNU Coreutils. With today's release of GNU Coreutils 9.11 the wc command is up to multiple times faster and even cat can be up to 15 times faster...

Firefox 150 Available With GTK Emoji Picker, CSS Media Element Pseudo-Classes

Phoronix - Mon, 04/20/2026 - 22:34
Mozilla today published their Firefox 150 release binaries as the latest milestone for this open-source web browser with growing AI ambitions...

Intel Compute Runtime Promotes Support For Wildcat Lake, "Early" Crescent Island

Phoronix - Mon, 04/20/2026 - 21:51
Out today is the Intel Compute Runtime 26.14.37833.4 that now includes production support for the newly-launched Wildcat Lake cut-down Panther Lake SoCs that debuted last week as the Core Series 3...

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