Practical Technology

If you were a teenager in the year 2000, odds are you were using Winamp to listen to the MP3 music tracks you found on Napster or had ripped from your CDs. Today, you most likely listen to your tunes on Spotify or Apple Music. But Winamp wants to…Read More

In a new white paper, Vendor Kernels, Bugs and Stability, the infrastructure software and Rocky Linux company CIQ presents a compelling argument that Linux vendor kernels are plagued with security vulnerabilities due to the flawed engineering…Read More

Linus Torvalds was happy this week. He declared, “Linux 6.9 is now out, and … the whole release has felt pretty normal.” Mr. Linux continued, “The changes [are] mostly being dominated by some driver updates (GPU and networking being the big ones).”…Read More

I don’t remember when I first started using a floppy disk in the mid-70s. It was either installing firmware on IBM S/370 mainframes or on a dedicated library workstation to create Library of Congress catalog records. Oh, the exciting life I’ve led!…Read More

I’ll be so glad once every technology or business press release no longer begins, “Now with AI!” Most of the time, it’s just lip service. And then there’s Red Hat, which is integrating AI across its product line. This includes Red Hat Enterprise…Read More

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