Practical Technology

The arguments over how to open source AI and large language models (LLM) continue. In the latest development, the Linux Foundation has adopted the Open Model Initiative (OMI) and its efforts to keep once-open source LLMs open. If that sounds…Read More

Kubernetes, the container-management orchestration system, has proven vital for modern computing, except for one area: artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). The problem: AI/ML demands substantial CPU, memory, and GPU resources,…Read More

You’ve likely never heard of National Public Data, the company that makes its money by collecting and selling access to your personal data to credit card companies, employers, and private investigators. It now appears that the hacker group USDoD…Read More

Worrying computer news always comes out of the hacker convention Defcon — and this year was no different. A pair of security researchers, Enrique Nissim and Krzysztof Okupski from security specialist IOActive, announced they’d found a nasty CPU…Read More

In the late afternoon of August 13, Bloomberg reported that the Department of Justice (DoJ) is considering breaking up Google. No, they’re not kidding. Why? In a recent landmark decision, Judge Amit Mehta of the US District Court ruled that Google…Read More

There are still a bunch of CentOS 7 users out there, and they need all the help they can get to migrate to a modern, secure Linux distribution. The AlmaLinux OS Foundation can help. If you’re a Linux administrator, you almost certainly know that…Read More