Practical Technology

It’s getting to be a bad joke. Companies such as Confluent, MongoDB, Elastic, and Redis Labs start with an open source project. They achieve a measure of success, then they, or their venture-capital backers, decided they’re not cashing out enough, so…Read More

It’s not really a Linux problem, but as is so often the case, Linux kernel developers have to clean up after AMD and Intel. It happened again with the chipmakers’ latest CPU vulnerabilities: AMD Inception and Intel Downfall. To fix these, Linux…Read More

In a groundbreaking move, CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE have come together to announce the formation of the Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA). The goal of this new collaborative trade association is to foster “the development of distributions…Read More

Aqua Security, a leading cloud native security figure, has unveiled alarming findings after a three-month investigation by its research team, Aqua Nautilus. The study revealed that Kubernetes clusters of over 350 entities, including Fortune 500…Read More

Way too many bosses are sure that remote work hurts worker productivity. According to a Microsoft international survey of 20,000 people, “85% of leaders say that the shift to hybrid work has made it challenging to have confidence that employees are…Read More

The creator of one of the most popular programming editors of all time, Vim, has died after a brief illness. :wq. You may not have known Bram Moolenaar’s name, but all developers know his open source programming editor, Vim. His family has reported…Read More