Practical Technology

Innovation Over the last 20 years, the OSI has been the guardian of open-source licenses, but now it will also address non-open-source licenses more and AI’s role in software development. In the beginning, all software was “free software” and “open…Read More

Jit, a startup programming security company, dreams of being a top security power. To help make those dreams a reality, Jit recently hired Simon Bennetts, the founder of the world’s most popular web app security scanner, Open Web Application Security…Read More

Innovation Chainguard takes a new approach to building a container Linux with all the security you’d need already baked in. There are many Linux distributions designed expressly for containers. Even Microsoft has one, Common Base Linux (CBL)-Mariner.…Read More

AT&T Alien Labs has discovered a new Linux malware program targeting endpoints and IoT devices. Usually, Linux malware targets servers and cloud instances. You know, where there’s big-time CPU horsepower to turn to cryptocurrency mining. Shikitega,…Read More

When Gartner recently looked into its crystal ball, it saw, “By 2025, more than 50% of enterprise-managed data will be created and processed outside the data center or cloud.” So where will it be then? It will be on edge computing, and chances are…Read More

The Rust in Linux debate is over. The implementation has begun. In an email conversation, Linux’s creator Linus Torvalds, told me, “Unless something odd happens, it [Rust] will make it into 6.1.” Want a good tech job? Then you need to know Linux and…Read More