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As of October 19, listed all 11 product rows as affected and said fixes are being pursued
A tenant on a shared cloud server can send a crafted network packet and read host kernel memory. In a lab, researchers chained that access into code execution inside the Firecracker process, but only with an unpatched kernel and no jailer.
Updated 3 days ago
Supplies the inference platform behind the managed service
IBM Cloud customers can now send Red Hat AI Inference requests over IBM's private network instead of the public internet. The API is unchanged except for the hostname: private.us-east.rhai.ibm.com replaces us-east.rhai.ibm.com.
Updated Nov 2
Shipped fixed RHEL 8, 9 and 10 kernels on November 1
Linux kernels have carried a race condition in their IPv4 TCP code since October 2015, when the faulty commit landed for version 4.4. The kernel's CVE team published it as CVE-2026-98432 on October 15, scoring it 9.8 out of 10.
Updated Nov 1
As of May 2026: IBM subsidiary providing open‑source hybrid cloud foundation
IBM has agreed to acquire Confluent, the data‑streaming company built around Apache Kafka, in an all‑cash deal for about $11 billion, or $31 per share, a roughly 34% premium to its last close. IBM says Confluent's real‑time event streaming and governance capabilities will anchor a new "smart data platform" that connects, cleans, and orchestrates data across hybrid clouds for generative and agentic AI applications. The deal positions IBM as both an AI model provider and the owner of the data plumbing that makes enterprise AI work.
Updated May 10
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