When Hurricane Helene announced itself with wind and rain hammering on my house in Asheville, North Carolina, in the early hours of Sept. 27, I turned over and went back to sleep. Then, the crashes awoke me. I could tell … Continue reading →

In a surprising announcement, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the web, and Rosemary Leith, co-founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, revealed that the organization is ceasing operations. The decision comes after 16 years of advocating for a safe,…Read More

Opinion Once upon a time, OpenAI was purely a non-profit. Really. It was established in December 2015 as a non-profit AI research organization. Now it appears increasingly likely that OpenAI will become a for-profit company. OpenAI, of course, has…Read More

Table of Contents How to see if you’re running CUPS People in Linux circles were getting worried this week. On Monday, Italian programmer Simone Margaritelli, who goes by the handle @evilsocket, claimed that there was an unauthenticated Remote Code…Read More

X CEO Elon Musk announced earlier this week that he’s pulling the teeth out of X’s (formerly Twitter) blocking feature. Soon, users you’ve blocked will be able to view your posts again. Nina Owji, a web developer, posted, “X is … Continue reading →

In a significant milestone for the 2024 Stack Overflow developer’s favorite relational database management system (DBMS), the PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released PostgreSQL 17. This latest version of the open-source DBMS introduces a…Read More