Practical Technology

If things had gone as planned, Apple Mac Linux fans would have been running Fedora Linux on their M-chip-powered Macs this summer. Oh well, better late than never! As of December 19, Fedora Asahi Remix 39 has been released. This makes Fedora Asahi…Read More

Long before Facebook existed, or even before the Internet, there was Usenet. Usenet was the first social network. Now, with Google Groups abandoning Usenet, this oldest of all social networks is doomed to disappear. Google declared: Starting on…Read More

I have AT&T Gigabit Fiber Internet in my house. But there are still times when I’m watching a movie and the video starts to stutter and stop. What’s going on? It’s not that AT&T is failing to deliver the speed. No, it’s because the latency — the…Read More

What do Twilio, Spotify, and Bending Spoons have in common? They’re all tech companies that laid off employees right before the holidays. Simultaneously, many of those people were going into debt to pay for their holiday gifts. Does anyone see…Read More

Remember expert systems? Computer scientist Edward Feigenbaum is credited with developing the concept in the 1960s. The idea was by putting a rules-based system, typically written in the first Artificial Intelligence (AI) language, Lisp, on top of a…Read More

The Binarly REsearch team, a firmware supply chain security platform company, has uncovered a constellation of security vulnerabilities called LogoFAIL hiding with the Unified Extensible Firmware Interfaces (UEFI) that we use for booting almost all…Read More