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Linux Foundation Adopts A2A for AI Agent Interoperability  WebProNews

Red Hat Announces No-Cost RHEL For Business Developers  Phoronix

Red Hat just expanded free access to RHEL for business developers  ZDNet

New Transparent Tribe attacks target Indian defense sector’s Linux systems  SC Media

Red Hat introduces Enterprise Linux for Business Developers  Help Net Security

Simple GOG client for Linux, Minigalaxy version 1.4 released  GamingOnLinux

Red Hat offers free and simple self-serve access to RHEL for application developers  SiliconANGLE

Intel SR-IOV Support Ready For Panther Lake Graphics But Some Current Platforms Left Behind  Phoronix

Linux Kernel Security in 2025: New Features and Emerging Threats  ITPro Today

Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0.20250702 Brings Many Security Fixes  Phoronix

AMD slips RDNA 3.5 iGPU firmware into Linux  Fudzilla.com

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: The Linux Foundation announced at the Open Source Summit in Denver that it will now host the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol. Initially developed by Google and now supported by more than 100 leading technology companies, A2A is a crucial new open standard for secure and interoperable communication between AI agents. In his keynote presentation, Mike Smith, a Google staff software engineer, told the conference that the A2A protocol has evolved to make it easier to add custom extensions to the core specification. Additionally, the A2A community is working on making it easier to assign unique identities to AI agents, thereby improving governance and security. The A2A protocol is designed to solve one of AI's most pressing challenges: enabling autonomous agents -- software entities capable of independent action and decision-making -- to discover each other, securely exchange information, and collaborate across disparate platforms, vendors, and frameworks. Under the hood, A2A does this work by creating an AgentCard. An AgentCard is a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) metadata document that describes its purpose and provides instructions on how to access it via a web URL. A2A also leverages widely adopted web standards, such as HTTP, JSON-RPC, and Server-Sent Events (SSE), to ensure broad compatibility and ease of integration. By providing a standardized, vendor-neutral communication layer, A2A breaks down the silos that have historically limited the potential of multi-agent systems. For security, A2A comes with enterprise-grade authentication and authorization built in, including support for JSON Web Tokens (JWTs), OpenID Connect (OIDC), and Transport Layer Security (TLS). This approach ensures that only authorized agents can participate in workflows, protecting sensitive data and agent identities. While the security foundations are in place, developers at the conference acknowledged that integrating them, particularly authenticating agents, will be a hard slog. Antje Barth, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) principal developer advocate for generative AI, explained what the adoption of A2A will mean for IT professionals: "Say you want to book a train ride to Copenhagen, then a hotel there, and look maybe for a fancy restaurant, right? You have inputs and individual tasks, and A2A adds more agents to this conversation, with one agent specializing in hotel bookings, another in restaurants, and so on. A2A enables agents to communicate with each other, hand off tasks, and finally brings the feedback to the end user." Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, said: "By joining the Linux Foundation, A2A is ensuring the long-term neutrality, collaboration, and governance that will unlock the next era of agent-to-agent powered productivity." Zemlin expects A2A to become a cornerstone for building interoperable, multi-agent AI systems.

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I Left Windows 11 for Linux—Here’s the Best Distro to Start With  MakeUseOf

I run these 4 commands first on every fresh Linux install  XDA

OBS Studio 31.1 Adds Linux Multitrack Video Support + More  OMG! Ubuntu

OBS Studio 31.1 Adds Linux Multitrack Video Support + More  OMG! Ubuntu

SUSE has unveiled a new support package aimed at customers concerned about data sovereignty. From a report: Called "SUSE Sovereign Premium Support," the service geo-pins support to a given region rather than adopting the traditional follow-the-sun model, where support comes from whatever region is online. The latter approach could break sovereignty regulations or policies, as it might involve transferring data out of a region. Ensuring that support is available from a specific region is therefore crucial, particularly for European customers. SUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen told The Register: "Digital sovereignty has become a really hot topic in the last half year, and specifically in Europe, where companies feel an increasing need to get things done in-house, in-country, or in-region within Europe, with less dependency on non-European vendors and supply chains and people."

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Linux Patched For Transient Scheduler Attacks "TSA" Impacting AMD CPUs  Phoronix

Framework 12 Platform Tuning For Better Performance Or Power Efficiency Review  Phoronix

5 tweaks and apps that helped me appreciate Ubuntu as a lifelong Windows user  XDA