Practical Technology

Windows workloads running as a Kubernetes Container Administrator when it’s expressly forbidden? That’s unexpected. We all know that one of the dumbest things you can do is run containers with root privileges. It doesn’t stop people from doing it,…Read More

There’s at least one thing Republicans and Democrats can agree on in the US Senate: the importance of open-source software. Seriously. As US Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) said last week, “Open-source software is the bedrock of the digital world.” His…Read More

Some people still insist that OpenStack, the open-source Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud, is dead. They are so, so wrong. By Statista’s count, OpenStack is the most popular open-source cloud of all. And what’s more important for Red Hat is…Read More

Column We all know that the Rust language has become much more popular. By Slashdata’s count, Rust users have nearly tripled in the past 24 months. Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Azure’s CTO, tweeted that “it’s time to halt starting any new projects in…Read More

In Uber’s last update about its recent hack, the ride-sharing company blamed the Lapsus$ hacking group for its security fiasco. Lapsus$, Uber added, had also breached Microsoft, Cisco, Samsung, Nvidia, and Okta. Over the last week, they’d also…Read More

Innovation Over the last 20 years, the OSI has been the guardian of open-source licenses, but now it will also address non-open-source licenses more and AI’s role in software development. In the beginning, all software was “free software” and “open…Read More