Apple quietly gave the M4 MacBook Pro a quantum dot display
M4 MacBook Pro reviews mostly endorsed my own view that, while the machine would make a great purchase for Intel MBP owners, there isn’t a compelling reason for any M-series user to upgrade. However, it turns out that Apple quietly gave the latest Ma...
Linux 6.13 To Expand Atomic Write Support To EXT4 & XFS
Prominent Linux developer Christian Brauner with Microsoft has begun sending out various pull requests of VFS feature changes for the imminent Linux 6.13 merge window. One of the interesting early pull requests is the VFS untorn writes series with gett...
Hit sci-fi series Silo returns for season two today
One of the biggest hits on Apple TV+ returns for season two today: the sci-fi series Silo, based on the . Rebecca Ferguson stars as Juliette, an engineer who seeks to break out of the underground silo in which everyone is living. Following the explosiv...
And the #1 Python IDE is . . .
This half-month in Python and elsewhere: Take a peek at seven libraries for parallel processing in Python, tour Python’s most popular ORM libraries, and check out our Flask 3.0 tutorial. Also, place your bets for which contender remains standing whe...
Strategies to navigate the pitfalls of cloud costs
In my line of work, I often hear CIOs and CFOs say, “Cloud providers are bleeding us dry.” As ever-increasing cloud bills roll in, they’re demanding answers about what they’re paying for and why they’re paying so much. Public cloud providers...
