And down went all Microsoft 365 services around the world. One popular argument against putting your business trust in the cloud is that if your hyper-cloud provider goes down, so does your business. Well, on the early U.S. East coast … Continue reading →

Before Christmas 2022, there was a truly nasty security hole in the Linux 5.15 in-kernel Server Message Block (SMB) server, ksmbd. It could be used to execute code in the kernel context. In short: Bad. But, the newest ksmbd security … Continue reading →

Sorry, Facebook, a proprietary take on the metaverse won’t work. If anything is going to transform the metaverse from hype to reality, it will be open source. While I don’t have the contempt for the metaverse that I do for … Continue reading →

18 weeks of regular season NFL games later, I still don’t have a clue who will be in Super Bowl LVII. Hopefully, your team is still in the hunt. Mine, the Pittsburgh Steelers, managed to salvage a winning season, and … Continue reading →

SUSE, a leading Linux and open-source company’s Q4 2022 results for the quarter ending October 31, 2022, are out and look pretty darn good. According to its financial statement, SUSE’s adjusted revenue was up 11% year-on-year to $170.3 million, and…Read … Continue reading →

I thought they only poisoned candy on Halloween. On the Python Package Index, three new fake packages, colorslib, httpslib, and libhttps, have appeared with malware. Wasn’t it only a few days ago that some vile twit placed a malware-poisoned file … Continue reading →