Practical Technology

Unless you want to be off the grid, in modern homes and work, you need an internet connection. To make the connection work, you need two different devices: A modem and a router. Also: How to convert your home’s old TV cable into powerful Ethernet…Read More

The Software Bill of Materials is now essential for program security, and IBM is helping by donating two open source projects to the Open Web Application Security Project. IBM has contributed two open source projects, SBOM Utility and License Scanner…Read More

Twitter hasn’t gone to pieces, but since Elon Musk bought the social network and laid off numerous employees, the site’s been failing far more often. Today, March 6, 2023, at approximately noon Eastern time, Twitter began suffering from problems.…Read More

I’ve used one Linux desktop or the other for decades now. But, I’m a Unix and Linux expert. For most people who just want a desktop and its applications to just work — thank you very much — the hundreds of different Linux desktops and dozens of…Read More

Opinion Even now, I run into those who think Linux and open source software is made by people living in their parents’ basement and writing the code out of the goodness of their hearts. Wrong. So, so wrong. Yes, even now, some people write open…Read More

Software Bills of Materials tell you what code is in a program. Chainguard’s OpenVEX will tell you what’s wrong and what’s not quite right, but OK in your code. Chainguard is already a security programming leader, and now it’s taking another step…Read More