Practical Technology

Would you pay a buck to Tweet? X, formerly known as Twitter, is testing a new subscription plan called “Not A Bot.” Under this new plan, any new user must verify their phone number and pay $1 per year to access key features, such as Tweeting,…Read More

RALEIGH, NC — Today, the Dell XPS-13 with Ubuntu Linux is easily the most well-known Linux laptop. Many users, especially developers — including Linus Torvalds — love it. As Torvalds recently said, “Normally, I wouldn’t name names, but I’m making…Read More

Opinion When I was in Bilbao recently for the Open Source Summit Europe event, the main topic of conversation was the European Union’s (EU) Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). Everyone – and I mean everyone – mentioned it. Why? Because pretty much everyone…Read More

Linux is used everywhere, from supercomputers to servers and on Internet of Things (IoT) devices and the cloud. The one place where Linux isn’t everywhere is the desktop — and that’s in no small part because the major Linux commercial distributors,…Read More

For the most part, ordinary Linux users don’t know what curl is. Programmers and system administrators know the utility well, though. This shell command and its associated library, libcurl, is used to transfer data over every network protocol you’ve…Read More

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks may be one of the least sophisticated types of cyberattacks but they can do real damage. Now Google and other top cloud companies are reporting new records for the largest DDoS attacks ever. The Google…Read More