IBM and Red Hat commit $5B to Project Lightwell, an AI-driven initiative to help enterprises secure open-source software, deploying 20,000 engineers globally
IBM and Red Hat commit $5B to establish a new open-source software model, dubbed Project Lightwell, and will deploy 20,000 engineers globally, supported by AI
Project Lightwell will deploy a global force of 20,000 engineers, supported by advanced artificial intelligence
IBM reports Q3 revenue up 9% YoY to $16.3B, above $16.1B est., and Hybrid Cloud revenue, including its Red Hat unit, up 14%, below 16% est.; IBM drops 6%+
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Extortion group Crimson Collective claims it breached Red Hat's private GitHub repositories, stealing nearly 570GB from 28K projects; Red Hat confirms a breach
An extortion group calling itself the Crimson Collective claims to have breached Red Hat's private GitHub repositories …
Red Hat acquires Neural Magic, which has built tools to boost generative AI inference workloads and raised $50M from a16z and others, for an undisclosed sum
and that starts today. Brian Stevens / @addvin : Today it become official, Neural Magic now a part of Red Hat. Michael Ferris / @mikeferris : Excited that we continue to expand our AI and Hybrid footp...
Intel and AMD forge an x86 ecosystem advisory group to ensure a unified x86 instruction set architecture moving forward, amid competition from Arm and RISC-V
including @Microsoft, @Dell, @Lenovo and @HP—are joining their new advisory group to “shape the future of x86 and foster developer innovation.” https://www.crn.com/... @CRN Mark Russinovich / @markrus...
Unit 42: open-source projects from Google, Microsoft, AWS, Red Hat, and others leaked GitHub auth tokens via GitHub Actions; GitHub chose not to fix the issues
Multiple high-profile open-source projects, including those from Google, Microsoft, AWS, and Red Hat, were found …
Red Hat announces RHEL AI, a platform for developing and running open source LLMs, and InstructLab, a community project to let experts enhance AI models
Researchers find malicious code in versions of the compression tool XZ Utils that were incorporated into Linux distributions from Red Hat, Debian, and others
Malicious code planted in xz Utils has been circulating for more than a month. — Researchers have found a malicious backdoor …
Unity CEO John Riccitiello resigns in the wake of the company's fee controversy; Unity names former Red Hat President and CEO James Whitehurst as interim CEO
John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity, has resigned from the company in the wake of a pricing controversy that left developers in open revolt.