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November 8, 2023
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KubeCon: What is Kubernetes’ dynamic resource allocation, and why does it matter?

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023, Chicago – At KubeCon 2023, Priyanka Sharma, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) executive director, did the bravest thing any keynote speaker can do: She ran a live demo. As is so often the … Continue reading →

November 6, 2023
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Intuit kills Mint, and personal finance app users are unhappy. Here’s what to know

Intuit says, “We are reimagining Mint as part of Intuit Credit Karma.” Many Mint users, however, hate the move. Nevertheless, Intuit will discontinue its personal finance application, Mint, as of Jan. 1, 2024. Mint has been a mainstay in the…Read … Continue reading →

November 6, 2023
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Robots plus generative AI: Everything you need to know when they work as one

We keep dreaming — albeit they’re most often nightmares — of intelligent robots such as Terminators. However, while robots are now essential for factories and making inroads in the home, no one could mistake them for being intelligent. Roomba cat…Read … Continue reading →

November 3, 2023
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CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE unite behind OpenELA to take on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

When Mike McGrath, Red Hat’s Red Hat Core Platforms vice president, announced that Red Hat was putting new restrictions on who could access Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)’s code, other Linux companies that depended on RHEL’s code for their own…Read … Continue reading →

November 2, 2023
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Comments Off on Cloudflare is struggling with another outage – here’s what to know

Cloudflare is struggling with another outage – here’s what to know

Cloudflare, one of the top web and internet services businesses, is having trouble again. In this storm, Cloudflare Dashboard and its related application programming interfaces (API) have gone down. The silver lining to this trouble is that these…Read More