Practical Technology

Open-sourcing large language models (LLMs) isn’t easy. Just ask the Open Source Initiative (OSI), which has been working on an AI-compatible open-source definition for nearly two years. Some companies — Meta, for example — claim to have…Read More

Google has released a critical security update for the Chrome web browser. The zero-day flaw, CVE-2024-4671, is a “use-after-free” vulnerability in Chrome’s Visuals component. You might be asking, “what is Chrome’s Visuals component?” In short, it’s…Read More

Opinion In some ways, IBM paying a cool $6.4 billion for HashiCorp makes perfect sense. HashiCorp’s infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool Terraform is very popular and would work well with Red Hat Ansible. And, yes, I’ve heard the joke about how if you…Read More

Most of us watch TV using cable, satellite, or streaming services. But none of these are cheap, and they’re getting more expensive by the day — leading many people to go back to using antennas and over-the-air (OTA) TV. According to Nielsen, as of…Read More

Long before you were picking up Python and JavaScript, in the predawn darkness of May 1, 1964, a modest but pivotal moment in computing history unfolded at Dartmouth College. Mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, operating a General…Read More

I have 2 Gigabits per second (Gbps) of fiber internet in my home for $120 a month. I’m lucky. I have access to that kind of broadband and the money to pay for it. Many people aren’t that fortunate. On Wednesday, May 1, the Affordable Connectivity…Read More