Practical Technology

With Bitcoin values hovering over $70,000, the cryptocurrency has become a big deal again. So it can come as no surprise that cybersecurity firm ReversingLabs has uncovered a nefarious hacking campaign aimed at pilfering cryptocurrency wallet…Read More

In 1989, the internet was already years old, but it looked nothing like it does today. The internet we use today owes much of its look and feel to Sir Tim Berners-Lee’ and his creation, the World Wide Web. The web’s launch can be traced back 35 years…Read More

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 miles from…Read More

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 its…Read More

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 More

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 and launching the…Read More