Practical Technology

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

My first text processor was vi, but my first word processor was WordStar, which I started using in 1981 on an Osborne 1. It changed my world. I’d always been a writer, but up until then, I used my prized IBM Selectric II typewriter. With WordStar, my…Read More

Opinion Just like Boeing, once upon a time, Intel was the darling of the engineering world. Both companies were the premier tech companies in their day, but those days are long gone now. As for Boeing, what can you say about an aircraft manufacturer…Read More