Practical Technology

If open source foundations sponsor open source forks, “There’ll be no more open source companies in Silicon Valley,” HashiCorp CEO Dave McJannet recently said. McJannet was referring to how the Linux Foundation had quickly adopted a fork of…Read More

Business Everyone uses Linux, and companies are willing to pay to develop it, but maintaining Linux’s code? That’s another matter. must read AI pioneer sees generative AI leading to cancer breakthroughs Read now Monterrey, California: At the Linux…Read More

As soon as Elon Musk bought Twitter, new social networks, such as Bluesky, Post.News, Threads, and T2/Pebble, sprang up to challenge it. Other existing social networks, such as Mastodon, were revitalized. Today, while Twitter, recently renamed X, is…Read More

Security bugs are a dime a dozen. Not a week goes by that we don’t see another one. But, usually, they’re fixable. But, then along comes one with the problem that isn’t in the software; it’s in a fundamental standard, and then all hell breaks loose.…Read More

Would you pay a buck to Tweet? X, formerly known as Twitter, is testing a new subscription plan called “Not A Bot.” Under this new plan, any new user must verify their phone number and pay $1 per year to access key features, such as Tweeting,…Read More

RALEIGH, NC — Today, the Dell XPS-13 with Ubuntu Linux is easily the most well-known Linux laptop. Many users, especially developers — including Linus Torvalds — love it. As Torvalds recently said, “Normally, I wouldn’t name names, but I’m making…Read More