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EU Analyst: The End of the Internet Is Near
The internet as we know it may no longer be a thing, warns a European Union-funded researcher. If it continues to fray, our favorite “network of networks” will just go back to being a bunch of...
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Generative AI: Don’t Fire Your Copywriters Just Yet
Everyone in the community was surprised by ChatGPT last year, which a web service responded to any and all user questions with surprising fluidity. ChatGPT is a variant of the powerful GPT-3 large...
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This Week in Computing: Malware Gone Wild
Malware is sneaky AF. It tries to hide itself and cover up its actions. It detects when it is being studied in a virtual sandbox, and so it sits still to evade detection. But when it senses a less...
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Wireshark Celebrates 25th Anniversary with a New Foundation
No doubt, countless engineers and hackers remember the first time they used Wireshark, or — if they’re a bit older — Wireshark’s predecessor, Ethereal. The experience of using Wireshark is a bit like...
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2023: Hello Amsterdam
Hoi Europe and beyond! Once again it is time for cloud native enthusiasts and professionals to converge and discuss cloud native computing in all its efficiency and complexity. The Cloud Native...
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Linkerd Service Mesh Update Addresses More Demanding User Base
Five years ago, when the hype around the service mesh was at its greatest, Buoyant CEO William Morgan, fielded a lot of questions about the company’s flagship Linkerd open source service mesh...
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AutoGPT Agents Want to Automate ChatGPT, Overrun the Internet
Now that the ChatGPT from OpenAI has caught the fancy of the masses, clever AI types have started pondering about how the chatting portion of generative AI service could be automated away, and have...
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Finout Gets a Handle on Kubernetes Costs
As Kubernetes expands out from the domain of super-users (the internet-scale companies) and towards the enterprise, the cost of running Kubernetes clusters becomes an increasingly important factor in...
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CircleCI CTO on How to Quickly Recover from a Malicious Hack
Just as everyone was heading out to the New Year’s holidays last year, CircleCI CTO Rob Zuber got a surprise of a most unwelcome sort. A customer alerted CircleCI to suspicious GitHub OAuth activity....
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TLA+ App Modeling Language Comes Correct with a Proper Foundation
“Coding is to programming what typing is to writing,” mathematician and accidental distributed systems pioneer Leslie Lamport has said, by way of explaining the challenge developers face in building...
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LinkedIn’s Real-Time Graph Database Is LIquid
Everything that LinkedIn knows about the global economy is kept in a single graph database, all on working memory. “The Economic Graph, is our digital representation of the global economy that we use...
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Return of the Monolith: Amazon Dumps Microservices for Video Monitoring
A blog post from the engineering team at Amazon Prime Video has been roiling the cloud native computing community with its explanation that, at least in the case of video monitoring, a monolithic...
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Amazon Web Services Open Sources a KVM-Based Fuzzing Framework
Amazon Web Services has released an open source framework for running fuzzing tests against software applications, in which the state of the application is caught within a virtual machine for easier...
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With ChatGPT, Honeycomb Users Simply Say What They’re Looking for
Right about now every company is trying to figure out how to get a competitive hand with ChatGPT. For observability platform provider Honeycomb, the OpenAI technology promises to make querying easier...
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Red Hat Podman Container Engine Gets a Desktop Interface
Red Hat’s open source Podman container engine now has a full-fledged desktop interface. With a visual user interface replacing Podman’s command lines, the open source enterprise software company wants...
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Red Hat Ansible Gets Event-Triggered Automation, AI Assist on Playbooks
In their unceasing conquest to rule over humankind, machines have scored yet another key victory. Red Hat‘s IT automation tool Ansible will soon have the ability to execute certain actions,...
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Kafka Drops ZooKeeper for ‘Real-Time’ KRaft
The veritable Kafka real-time data processing platform is replacing its distributed-system consensus engine for a snappier “real time” quorum-based controller. Enhanced Kafka distributors such as...
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What Large Language Models Can Do Well Now, and What They Can’t
Attendees of New York QCon earlier this month got a preview of where the exciting world of Large Language Model (LLM)-based artificial intelligence (AI) may be going, as well as some limits of how far...
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Memphis Cloud Focuses on Making Event Streams Easier to Manage
The market for real-time data platforms continues to expand, with more alternatives to Kafka popping up. One of the latest packages, Memphis.dev is a message service broker designed to make life...
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Python to Drop the Global Lock for Greater Parallelism
In a move to ease use for large-scale data analysis work, the Python Steering Council has elected to drop the lock on Python that restricts a Python user program to using only a single thread. This...
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