Practical Technology

When most people want to talk to the manager, they may or may not get anywhere. But when tech billionaire Elon Musk grumbles, it’s a little different. Elon complained on X that he’d, “Just bought a new PC laptop, and it won’t let me use it unless I…Read More

A volunteer Nginx developer is forking Nginx, the world’s most popular web server, into Freenginx. By Netcraft‘s count, Nginx (pronounced EngineX) is the world’s most popular web server. So when a top Nginx developer, Maxim Dounin, announced he was…Read More

Opinion I keep hearing about businesses that want to fire their call center employees and front-line staffers as fast as possible and replace them with AI. They’re upfront about it. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently said the company behind Facebook…Read More

When Broadcom bought VMware for $69 billion last November, we knew there would be changes. What we didn’t know is that Broadcom’s radical changes would leave partners and customers alike questioning their commitment to VMware. Personally, I’ve never…Read More

We all know that OpenAI’s ChatGPT can make mistakes. They’re called hallucinations, although I prefer to call them lies or blunders. But in a peculiar turn of events this Tuesday, ChatGPT began to really lose it. Users started to report bizarre and…Read More

Today, the Linux Foundation oversees not only Linux but also more than a thousand other open-source programs It wasn’t always that way. The Linux Foundation, founded in 2007, was focused almost entirely on Linux. As Jim Zemlin, then and now the Linux…Read More