The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat® blog post with 5 of the week's top news items and ideas from or about Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your weekly digest of things that caught our eye.

IN THE NEWS:
SiliconANGLE - Unpacking the existing software supply chain vulnerabilities: Red Hat and AWS execs weigh in
Gunnar Hellekson, vice president and general manager, Red Hat Enterprise Linux at Red Hat, and Adnan Ijaz, director of product management at Amazon Web Services Inc., sat down with theCUBE at the recent AWS re:Invent conference to discuss trends surrounding securing enterprise software supply chains, particularly in the context of COVID-related complexities.

WATCH THE VIDEO:
Technically Speaking (E17): Compute confidential: In hardware we trust
In this episode of Technically Speaking, Lily Sturmann joins Chris Wright to discuss what confidential computing and Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are, how they work, and why they're so important.

ON THE BLOG:
Ansible Wisdom and ChatGPT: Putting it to the test
Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing how we work and play in exciting ways. At first glance, AI tools, such as ChatGPT, seem to provide all the correct answers. But once we delve deeper and implement the suggestions, it often isn’t as effortless as it appears. In this blog, Red Hat put ChatGPT to the test to see how it fares with developing Ansible Playbooks and share our results.

LISTEN TO THE PODCAST:
Code Comments: Episode 6 - Challenges In Solutions Engineering
Change may seem exciting for some. But for those who are moving from one platform, or one technology, to the next, it can be a daunting, anxiety-filled experience. For Dynatrace’s Markie Duby, keeping empathy at the center of one’s work is crucial for building trust and for collaborating with customers as they adapt to an industry that never stops moving.

GOOD READ:
The Enterprisers Project - Digital transformation: What's changed and what hasn't
Security and innovation top the list in Red Hat's most recent Global Tech Outlook survey. Here are some other key takeaways on the state of digital transformation worldwide.
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