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Linux Sees Patches For "Critical" Vulnerability Affecting Many Arm CPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 06/10/2026 - 08:35
Made public today is CVE-2025-10263 as a "critical" security vulnerability affecting many different Arm CPU cores. CVE-2025-10263 could allow for privilege escalation on affected systems due to a specific timing condition during a memory permission change. Fundamentally it comes down to completion of affected memory accesses might not be guaranteed by the completion of a TLBI...

What's New in Ansible Automation Platform 2.7

Red Hat News - Wed, 06/10/2026 - 08:00
Today we released Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7, which builds on previous releases with more features and enhancements to help you enable a platform engineering approach to automation, accelerate adoption across different teams, and prepare your IT operations for AI-driven automation. Here's a look at what's included in our latest release. Empower platform engineering and boost developer productivity The self-service automation portal, released with Ansible Automation Platform 2.6, allows ITOps teams to make automation available to users who are not automation experts yet need easy

Expiration of Secure Boot signing certificates in 2026

Red Hat News - Wed, 06/10/2026 - 08:00
The keys that Microsoft uses to sign for Secure Boot are expiring at the end of June 2026. Here is what you need to know:Secure Boot-enabled systems will continue to boot after June 2026 whether they are immediately updated or not.Red Hat has released new shims, signed by multiple certificates, for all supported RHEL 9 and RHEL 10 streams; RHEL 8 will receive the new shim in June 2026.To prepare your systems for the future, it’s best to update your firmware database, if an update is available, and update your shim.What is Secure Boot?UEFI Secure Boot is a security feature that permits only s

Alpine Linux 3.24 Improves Installer Experience, Adds COSMIC Desktop Option

Phoronix - Wed, 06/10/2026 - 05:02
Alpine Linux, the Linux distribution popular especially for containers / micro-services and embedded devices, is out with its newest feature release...

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