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November 11, 2022
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 arrives

If you haven’t switched over to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 family, and your company lives and dies with RHEL, then chances are you’re running RHEL 8.x. If that’s you, pay attention because the latest version, RHEL 8.7, … Continue reading →

November 10, 2022
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The Dropbox GitHub Data Breach

Even the oldest file-sharing services can fall to a good old-fashioned phishing attack. Back in 2007, Drew Houston, Dropbox’s founder, got sick and tired of losing his USB drive. So, he created the first individual/small business cloud storage…Read More

November 10, 2022
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Comments Off on With Linode, Akamai expands into edge cloud computing development

With Linode, Akamai expands into edge cloud computing development

Earlier this year, when Akamai bought infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud platform provider Linode for about $900 million, it wasn’t clear how Akamai’s content delivery network (CDN) and security services would work well with Linode’s…Read More

November 8, 2022
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Why Twitter will fail shortly

Elon Musk has taken over Twitter, and it appears he’s already failing on his promise not to turn Twitter into a ‘free-for-all hellscape.’ But, I’m not here to talk about his policy blunders. That’s a story for another day. No, … Continue reading →

November 4, 2022
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Stack Overflow CEO on how it became the world’s most popular programming site

If you’re a programmer, you already know about Stack Overflow. It’s a developer site where questions about all languages and problems are asked and answered. Every programmer uses it and knows jokes about developers who cobble their programs together…Read More