Practical Technology

You can’t say IBM didn’t warn us. On Jan. 26, 2023, Big Blue warned us of multiple security vulnerabilities in its ultrafast Aspera Faspex file transfer software. In particular, CVE-2022-47986, with a Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)…Read More

I should have seen this coming. OpenAI GPT-4 is hotter than hot. No less a person with a clue about technology named Bill Gates called generative AI the “most important advance in technology since the graphical user interface.” Meanwhile, GitHub…Read More

Docker, the company that started the container revolution, is looking forward to the “emergence of hybrid, collaborative development environments,” according to CEO Scott Johnston, who spoke in a press-only virtual meeting of the developer minds.…Read More

Twitter is on the verge of a historic change. It’s a huge risk that could alienate many of the accounts that create much of Twitter’s content. It also reveals how desperate Twitter is for new revenue streams as it fights to regain lost relevance and…Read More

Some of Twitter‘s source code has reportedly been leaked online. According to a legal filing in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, a user identified as “FreeSpeechEnthusiast” is accused of sharing parts of Twitter’s code…Read More

Europe’s leading Linux company, SUSE, has announced that veteran Unix and Linux executive Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen will take over as its CEO starting May 1, 2023. Melissa Di Donato, the current CEO, is stepping down immediately to pursue the next…Read More