Practical Technology

Patent Trolls What is the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) thinking of? The USPTO’s new proposed rules sound good. It would “provide a less-expensive alternative to district court litigation to resolve certain patentability issues…Read More

The Python Package Index (PyPI), can’t catch a break. The popular Python programming language code repository has been subject to numerous attacks and has had to restrict new members for a while. Now, ReversingLabs, a software supply chain company,…Read More

Canonical has decided to try a new approach to the Linux desktop with next year’s Long-Term Support (LTS) Ubuntu Linux 24.04 release. This new release will use an immutable Linux system with additional software provided by Snaps. Canonical software…Read More

The Python Package Index (PyPI), is the most popular Python programming language software repository. It’s also a mess. Earlier this year, the FortiGuard team discovered zero-day malware in three PyPI packages called “colorslib,” “httpslib,” and…Read More

At the Red Hat Summit in Boston, I met my old writing buddy from 1993, David Linthicum to discuss where the cloud is in 2023. Now Deloitte Consulting’s Chief Cloud Strategy Officer, Linthicum sees the cloud gaining ever greater importance and…Read More

Say you want to link all your Kubernetes clusters together. And, when I say all your Kubernetes clusters, I mean all of them. The ones in your office, the ones at your data center and even those scattered across multiple cloud providers. You could do…Read More