Practical Technology

X CEO Elon Musk announced earlier this week that he’s pulling the teeth out of X’s (formerly Twitter) blocking feature. Soon, users you’ve blocked will be able to view your posts again. Nina Owji, a web developer, posted, “X is about to remove the…Read More

In a significant milestone for the 2024 Stack Overflow developer’s favorite relational database management system (DBMS), the PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released PostgreSQL 17. This latest version of the open-source DBMS introduces a…Read More

Prominent Linux kernel developers gathered to share insights on kernel development’s current state and future at a recent roundtable discussion during the Open Source Summit Europe in Vienna. The panel, moderated by Jonathan Corbet, Linux kernel…Read More

VIENNA — At the Linux Foundation‘s Linux Plumbers Conference, the annual get-together for the top Linux kernel developers (and me), Microsoft Senior Software Engineer Chris Oo announced in a confidential computing micro-conference that Microsoft…Read More

Some people have told me recently that artificial intelligence (AI) is writing my stories. As if! However, there is a reason it might seem as if AI has provided a helping hand. I’ve published close to 15,000 stories, five books, and hundreds of white…Read More

VIENNA — Wind River Systems, a longtime leader in embedded operating systems and mission-critical systems, on Tuesday announced the launch of eLxr Pro, (pronounced “exlir”), its new commercial enterprise Linux offering designed for AI and…Read More