Practical Technology

I get it. Streaming video is great. I can’t blame Netflix for finally killing off its 25-year-old DVD business. The company makes its cash from big-time streaming hits such as The Night Agent and Wednesday, not shipping DVDs of Alfred Hitchcock’s…Read More

Canonical has officially released Ubuntu 23.04, codenamed Lunar Lobster, which is the latest version of its Linux distribution and it boasts improvements for enterprise developer desktops, gaming enhancements, a revamped installer, and an expanded…Read More

Developers who are serious about securing their code have cause to rejoice. The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) is releasing Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA, pronounced Salsa) version 1.0. This comprehensive framework is…Read More

Amsterdam: Repeat after me: Developers must take security seriously now. Don’t believe me? Just ask the poor devils who had to clean things up after the SolarWinds software supply chain attack, the never-ending Log4j vulnerability, and the npm…Read More

I mean, really, really wrong, even when you pay serious money to Twitter. Leaving aside Twitter owner Elon Musk‘s latest 13-year-old boy joke of “renaming” Twitter, “Titter,” Twitter’s most serious new annoyance is its new API pricing structure. It’s…Read More

Kubecon + Cloudnativecon Europe 2023, Amsterdam, Netherlands – Thanks to a succession of security disasters, such as the SolarWinds software supply chain attack, the ongoing Log4j vulnerability and the npm maintainer protest code gone wrong,…Read More