Practical Technology

What do Twilio, Spotify, and Bending Spoons have in common? They’re all tech companies that laid off employees right before the holidays. Simultaneously, many of those people were going into debt to pay for their holiday gifts. Does anyone see…Read More

Remember expert systems? Computer scientist Edward Feigenbaum is credited with developing the concept in the 1960s. The idea was by putting a rules-based system, typically written in the first Artificial Intelligence (AI) language, Lisp, on top of a…Read More

The Binarly REsearch team, a firmware supply chain security platform company, has uncovered a constellation of security vulnerabilities called LogoFAIL hiding with the Unified Extensible Firmware Interfaces (UEFI) that we use for booting almost all…Read More

NordVPN features: Simultaneous connections: 6 | Kill switch: Yes | Mobile platforms Android, iOS, Chrome, and Firefox | Logging: None, except billing data | Countries: 60 | Servers: 5000+ | Trial/MBG: 30 days | Google Play rating: 4.5 | App Store…Read More

Long before the internet became our world, there was a mishmash of online services such as AOL, CompuServe, GEnie, and Prodigy. Except for being faster, there’s less difference between then and now than you might think. Many of you were born to the…Read More

The Linux Foundation’s Greg Kroah-Hartman delivered a comprehensive talk this week on the current state and future challenges of Linux kernel security. Speaking at the Open Source Summit (OSS) Japan 2023, Kroah-Hartman — Linux stable kernel…Read More