Opinion I was one of the first people to use an Internet of Things (IoT) device. It was Carnegie-Mellon’s Computer Science Department’s Coke machine*. True, I didn’t need to check on it since my school, West Virginia University, was 77 … Continue reading →

ChatGPT Plugins are — or should I say were? — add-on tools developed specifically for OpenAI’s ChatGPT AI-powered large language model (LLM). They were very useful, but soon ChatGPT Plugins will come to an end. OpenAI is replacing them with … Continue reading →

Managing data lakehouses isn’t easy, so LinkedIn created and now has released as open source, OpenHouse, a control plane and interface for supervising a wide variety of data lakehouses. It all starts with data lakes. These are cheap, open storage…Read … Continue reading →

2004 was already an eventful year for Linux. As I reported at the time, SCO was trying to drive Linux out of business. Red Hat was abandoning Linux end-user fans for enterprise customers by closing down Red Hat Linux 9 … Continue reading →

For years now, the most popular end-user operating worldwide has been Linux. Or, to be more precise, it’s Android. According to the Irish analysis site Statcounter’s most recent numbers, Android had 43.74% of the market in February 2024, followed by…Read … Continue reading →

The White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director urges developers to move to memory-safe languages such as Rust as soon as possible. We’ve known for ages that we should use memory-safe languages like Rust. But, after lifetimes of deploying…Read … Continue reading →