Practical Technology

I don’t remember when I first started using a floppy disk in the mid-70s. It was either installing firmware on IBM S/370 mainframes or on a dedicated library workstation to create Library of Congress catalog records. Oh, the exciting life I’ve led!…Read More

I’ll be so glad once every technology or business press release no longer begins, “Now with AI!” Most of the time, it’s just lip service. And then there’s Red Hat, which is integrating AI across its product line. This includes Red Hat Enterprise…Read More

Open-sourcing large language models (LLMs) isn’t easy. Just ask the Open Source Initiative (OSI), which has been working on an AI-compatible open-source definition for nearly two years. Some companies — Meta, for example — claim to have…Read More

Google has released a critical security update for the Chrome web browser. The zero-day flaw, CVE-2024-4671, is a “use-after-free” vulnerability in Chrome’s Visuals component. You might be asking, “what is Chrome’s Visuals component?” In short, it’s…Read More

Opinion In some ways, IBM paying a cool $6.4 billion for HashiCorp makes perfect sense. HashiCorp’s infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool Terraform is very popular and would work well with Red Hat Ansible. And, yes, I’ve heard the joke about how if you…Read More

Most of us watch TV using cable, satellite, or streaming services. But none of these are cheap, and they’re getting more expensive by the day — leading many people to go back to using antennas and over-the-air (OTA) TV. According to Nielsen, as of…Read More