AI didn’t kill Stack Overflow
It would be easy to say that artificial intelligence killed off Stack Overflow, but it would be truer to say that AI delivered the final blow. What really happened is a parable of human community and experiments in self-governance gone bizarrely wrong...
How to hire software developers
Salaries are usually a business’s top expense, and a bad hire can cause all kinds of problems, financially and culturally. In some places, getting rid of someone who just isn’t working out can be a challenge. Add in laws, rules, and regulations s...
Lend a Hand at the openSUSE Conference
The openSUSE community wants to make the project’s conference in Nuremberg smooth, welcoming and beneficial to attendees. We’re calling on you to get involved! Whether you’re a longtime contributor or a new face looking to get more involved, ther...
How to use Authselect to configure PAM in Fedora Linux
Authselect is a utility tool that manages PAM configurations using profiles. Starting with Fedora 36, Authselect became a hard requirement for configuring PAM. In this article, you will learn how to configure PAM using Authselect. Introduction. Unautho...
Microsoft rolls out TypeScript Native Previews
Microsoft has announced the availability of TypeScript Native Previews, featuring early previews of a native TypeScript compiler and tool set based on the Go language. The port has achieved “a 10x speed-up on most projects,” the company said. Anno...
Mistral unveils Mistral Agents API
Artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI Tuesday announced the Mistral Agents API, a complement to its Chat Completion API that “simplifies implementing agentic use cases,” the company said. The Agents API combines Mistral’s large language mod...
10biForthOS: a full 8086 OS in 46 bytes
An incredibly primitive operating system, with just two instructions: compile (1) and execute (0). It is heavily inspired by Frank Sergeant 3-Instruction Forth and is a strip down exercise following up SectorForth, SectorLisp, SectorC (the C compiler u...
Signal uses Windows’ DRM to counter Recall snooping
Microsoft’s Recall feature, which takes screenshots of the contents of your screen every few seconds, saves them, and then runs text and image recognition to extract information from them, has had a rocky start. Even now that it’s out there and Mic...
Canonical Announce Big Changes to Ubuntu Summit
Ubuntu Summit 2025 will be hosted in London, UK as Canonical makes big changes to the nature of the event, focusing more on remote participation. You're reading Canonical Announce Big Changes to Ubuntu Summit, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not repro...
Announcing the Formation of the WordPress AI Team
Today, I’m pleased to announce the formation of a new WordPress AI Team, a dedicated group focused on accelerating and coordinating artificial intelligence projects across the WordPress ecosystem. AI is already transforming how people create and mana...
Don’t Panic! There’s an F42 Release Party on Thursday!
On Thursday, May 29 (yes, two days away!) we will host the F42 release party on Matrix. We would love for you to join us to celebrate all things F42 in a private event room from 1300 – 1600 UTC. You will hear from our new FPL Jef Spaleta, learn about...
Salesforce to buy Informatica in $8 billion deal
Salesforce has agreed to buy Informatica in an $8 billion deal as a way to quickly access far more data for its AI efforts, it said Tuesday. Steve Fisher, President and CTO of Salesforce, made the argument for how this acquisition helps customers of b...
AWS adds observability support to Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added observability support to its managed Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless service to help enterprises monitor the health of their database fleet and troubleshoot issues around it. Observability of databases is crucial for en...
IT leadership lessons from ‘Leroy Jenkins’
In 2005, Leroy Jenkins gained notoriety in the gaming world as a hapless World of Warcraft player immortalized in a viral video. Leroy single-handedly wrecked a carefully planned mission by charging headfirst into danger, shouting his name in a spur-o...
What we know now about generative AI for software development
Last year, I wrote about the 10 ways generative AI would transform software development, including early use cases in code generation, code validation, and other improvements in the software development process. Over the past year, I’ve also covered...
Lessons from building retrieval systems for AI assistants
Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) has quickly risen to become one of the most popular architectures when building AI assistants, especially in scenarios where combining the power of language models with proprietary information is key. Integrating a...
