AlmaLinux OS Foundation released AlmaLinux OS 10.2, which includes an additional x86-64-v2 build for older hardware alongside the default x86-64-v3 baseline, and restores support for the 32-bit i686 architecture that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 removed entirely. The release reflects AlmaLinux's shift since 2023 from pursuing exact 1:1 compatibility with RHEL to ABI compatibility, after Red Hat restricted source code access that year. AlmaLinux OS 10 carries active support through 2030 and security support through 2035.
linux.slashdot.org
· 2026-11-07
A use-after-free bug in Linux's IPv4 TCP handshake, present since kernel 4.4, has been patched upstream with fixed releases spanning 5.10 through 7.3, but Ubuntu and RHEL have not yet shipped fixes as of October 31. Anthropic says its Claude model produced a working proof-of-concept that gains root access with no credentials on servers running multipath TCP listeners, and Go's security team notes Go programs enable such listeners by default.
atlasum.net
· 2026-10-31
A use-after-free bug has been identified in the Linux kernel's IPv4 TCP handshake code, where a race condition between processors can leave a stale pointer to a freed IP options object. The CVE record rates it 9.8 on CVSS 3.1 as a worst-case network-reachable flaw, while Red Hat scores it 5.9 for its supported products, and Anthropic's Frontier Red Team separately demonstrated a working remote root exploit in a lab setup using a Multipath TCP listener.
penligent.ai
· 2026-10-30
IBM and Red Hat announced that their AI-driven Lightwell initiative has discovered and helped fix more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used Java libraries. The disclosure coincides with the general availability launch of Lightwell Clearinghouse, an enterprise service letting customers submit open-source dependencies for prioritized review and remediation.
it.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-06
Reports indicate Red Hat employees' internal badges and identifiers are being switched to IBM branding, with one employee, Thomas Wilson, publicly noting the change. Separately, departures are being reported at Red Hat and IBM subsidiary Nordcloud, some described as voluntary exits with severance, alongside commentary that IBM's quantum computing teams may be restructured similarly to how Kyndryl was spun off.
techrights.org
· 2026-10-01
HP has begun taking orders for its ZGX Fury AI workstation, a system based on Nvidia's GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip pairing a Blackwell Ultra GPU with a 72-core Grace CPU. The machine offers 748GB of unified, coherent memory and up to 20 petaFLOPS of FP4 compute, and ships alongside a new partnership between HP, Red Hat, and Nvidia to run Red Hat AI Factory software on the hardware.
storagereview.com
· 2026-09-14
A volunteer has created a public GitHub mirror and continuation of the freedesktop.org SPICE Windows guest agent project after Red Hat stopped maintaining it. The fork keeps building and packaging the Windows service that enables clipboard sharing, resolution matching, and file transfer for VMs, with fixes like a multi-GPU mouse tracking patch for passthrough setups.
github.com
· 2026-09-12
CERN engineers announced at a Winterthur conference that the lab will shift over 2,200 machines from Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Debian. The move stems from RHEL 9 and 10's newer compiler requirements, which drop support for older CPU architectures still used in many of CERN's embedded control systems.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-05
A federal appeals panel rejected Xinuos's claim that IBM improperly contributed Project Monterey code to Linux, ruling the deadline to pursue such action had passed. Xinuos, a legal successor to SCO, now plans to petition for the case to be reheard by the full Second Circuit Court of Appeals rather than just a three-judge panel.
linux.slashdot.org
· 2026-08-24
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