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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

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

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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

Rust 1.93 has arrived, here's what’s new  How-To Geek

I almost threw out my old laptop — then I found these 5 use cases  XDA

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...

Handmade by human hands using machines  digg.com

This Could be the Best Graphics Editor for Linux Users (Yes, it is Open Source)  It's FOSS

Wine Patches Unlock Adobe Photoshop Native Run on Linux  WebProNews

This smartphone can run Android, Linux, and even Windows 11  TechSpot

Bring a little bit of Windows 8 into Linux with shell styled after infamous tile-based interface  PC Gamer

This new Debian edition doesn't use Linux  How-To Geek

1 vCPU Linux runner now generally available in GitHub Actions  The GitHub Blog

Intel Xeon 6780E "Sierra Forest" Linux Performance ~14% Faster Since Launch  Phoronix

As part of my end-of-year 2025 benchmarking I looked at how the Intel Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids performance evolved in the year since launch and seeing some nice open-source/Linux optimizations during that time. On the other side of the table were also benchmarks of how AMD EPYC 8004 Sienna evolved in its two years, the AMD EPYC Milan-X in its four years since launch, and also a look at the performance evolution lower down the stack with the likes of sub-$500 laptop hardware. Out today is a fresh look at how the Intel Xeon 6780E Sierra Forest has evolved in its one and a half years since its launch.

FreeBSD is a No-Go for KDE's Plasma Login Manager  It's FOSS

Back at CES AMD announced the Ryen 7 9850X3D as a faster sibling to the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Today they have announced the suggested price for this 3D V-Cache desktop processor and confirmation of its availability starting on 29 January...

Old Attack, New Speed: Researchers Optimize Page Cache Exploits  SecurityWeek

Ahead of the first Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake laptops expected to hit retail channels next week, Intel has published updated IPU7 (IPU 7.5) firmware for the image processing unit used by the web cameras on the higher-end Panther Lake laptops...