Practical Technology

Everyone wants more security for their cloud processes and data. So, to deliver this, Microsoft announced at the recent OpenInfra Summit that it’s closer to delivering it to its Azure customers. The means? Confidential containers on Azure Kubernetes…Read More

Opinion Free software and open source licenses evolved to deal with code in the 1970s and ’80s. Today it must again transform to deal with AI models. AI was born from open source software. But the free software and open source licenses, based on…Read More

For years, Reddit’s slogan has been “the front page of the internet”. However, a ham-fisted attempt by Reddit’s management to monetize the site’s content has led to a user upheavel and a revolt by volunteer subreddit managers. Reddit CEO Steve…Read More

OpenInfra Summit, Vancouver, B.C., Canada – When 750 OpenStack, StarlingX and Kata Containers developers and users gathered, they weren’t there for new, exciting developments. They were there to share their knowledge, insights and best practices of…Read More

VANCOUVER, Canada — OpenStack is a very useful and stable open-source cloud. It’s also a very difficult cloud to set up properly. At the OpenInfra Summit here, Canonical announced it would extend its commercial OpenStack offering to small-scale…Read More

For months now, the economic prophets have been saying a recession is coming. I’m not an economist, but I have been running a small home-based business for decades. I’ve been through good times and bad. My particular industry — journalism — is in…Read More