Friday Five - November 6, 2026
Red Hat, Friday, November 6th, 2026
Red Hat's Friday Five covers Project Lightwell, AI sovereignty, post-quantum cryptography in Red Hat AI and the Fedora Linux 45 release.
Red Hat's weekly roundup leads with Project Lightwell, which commits $5 billion and aims for 20,000 engineers to help secure open source software, and a conversation between Malcolm Gladwell and Red Hat's Gunnar Hellekson on AI-driven vulnerability discovery.
It also promotes Red Hat's first virtual open source security event on November 12.
Red Hat CRO Andrew Brown outlines four dimensions of AI sovereignty (data, technical, operational and assurance), and Red Hat explains how NIST post-quantum cryptography standards in RHEL and OpenShift will affect Red Hat AI Enterprise.
Fedora Linux 45 shipped with enforced RPM signature checking, ptrace restrictions, GCC 16.2, GNOME 51 and Plasma 6.8.