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On December 16, 2025, Red Hat announced the acquisition of Chatterbox Labs, a pioneer in model-agnostic AI safety and generative AI (gen AI) guardrails.The following questions and answers provide additional context on the acquisition and what it means for Red Hat customers and partners.The AnnouncementWhat is the news? Red Hat announced on December 16, 2025, that it has acquired Chatterbox Labs, a private company founded in 2011 that provides model testing and gen AI guardrails. Chatterbox Labs technology, known as the AIMI platform, delivers quantitative AI risk metrics to help organizations

2025 proved to be dynamic in the world of enterprise IT - from the full-on emergence of AI agents to the renewed demands of sovereignty, there was no shortage of storylines throughout the year. But that’s looking behind us; when we look ahead, what do we expect for 2026?Several of Red Hat’s executives have taken on this question to provide their views into the new year, emphasizing the shifting mindsets and priorities that IT leaders are facing come January. So let’s hear from them!Ashesh Badani, senior vice president and chief product officer“Technology leaders are torn between many p

2025 was an incredible year for network operations (NetOps) and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. To address growing network complexity, Red Hat provided the tools NetOps teams needed to implement a strategic automation approach. Through major platform releases, new partner integrations, and global events, Red Hat helped customers achieve enterprise-wide network automation with Ansible Automation Platform. Let’s take a look back at the major network automation milestones that defined the year.Key platform innovations In October, Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 launched, introducing new ca

Luckfox Aura – A Raspberry Pi-like Linux SBC powered by Rockchip RV1126B SoC with 3 TOPS NPU  CNX Software

GIMP 3.2-RC2 is out today as what could be the last release candidate of GIMP 3.2 before its stable release. This leading open-source image editor/creation alternative to the likes of Adobe Photoshop continues becoming much more refined and polished in the GIMP 3 series...

Kodi 22.3 arrives with two big fixes for Linux and Xbox  How-To Geek

Stemming from a security researcher and his team proposing a new Linux Security Module (LSM) three years ago and it not being accepted to the mainline kernel, he raised issue over the lack of review/action to Linus Torvalds and the mailing lists. In particular, seeking more guidance for how new LSMs should be introduced and raised the possibility of taking the issue to the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board (TAB)...

Longtime Red Hat engineer Hans de Goede who worked on many Intel/AMD laptop enhancements over the years left Red Hat and ended up joining Qualcomm. Now it turns out one of his projects at Qualcomm is enhancing the Fedora Linux support for running nicely out-of-the-box on Snapdragon-powered Windows on ARM laptops...

Fedora 44 Could Work Nicely "Out Of The Box" On Snapdragon-Powered Windows ARM Laptops  Phoronix

Oracle Releases bpftune 0.4-1: eBPF Tool for Automated Linux Kernel Tuning  WebProNews

Linux Kernel Fast-Tracks DRM Updates with Rust and NPU Support Post-6.19  WebProNews

Linux Kernel 6.19: EXT4 Upgrades, PCIe Encryption, and Hardware Support  WebProNews

Back in November Flatpak 1.17 released with support for sideloading from OCI images and other improvements in working toward the Flatpak 1.18 stable release. Out today is Flatpak 1.17.1 and was then followed quickly by Flatpak 1.17.2 to fix a mistake in the release artifacts...

New Jolla, Sailfish 5, offer break from iOS-Android monopoly  theregister.com

The latest Pop!_OS 24.04 update has this longtime Linux user more excited than ever  ZDNET

The latest Pop!_OS 24.04 update has this long-time Linux user more excited than ever  ZDNET

System76 Launches Pop!_OS Linux Distro To Much Fanfare, Check It Out  HotHardware

Joseph Zikusooka's Jambula OS Takes a Text-Based Approach to Raspberry Pi 5 Server Setup  Hackster.io

Linux 6.19 Features: LUO, PCIe Link Encryption, ASUS Armoury, DRM Color Pipeline API & More  Phoronix

With Linux 6.19-rc1 released, the merge window for Linux 6.19 has now concluded. Here is a summary of the interesting Linux 6.19 new features and changes with this kernel version.