GenAI is my copilot? Developers weigh pains and gains
Developers are quicker than most to embrace generative AI tools as part of their workflow. That can mean enhanced productivity and easing cognitive burdens, but it also means learning new technologies while they’re still being built. This month’s ...
GenAI is my copilot? Developers play whack-a-hallucination
Developers are quicker than most to embrace generative AI tools as part of their workflow. That can mean enhanced productivity and easing cognitive burdens, but it also means learning new technologies while they’re still being built. This month’s ...
Why enterprises fail at finops
As cloud spending continues to climb, the discipline known as finops (financial operations) has emerged as a critical strategy for managing and optimizing cloud investments. This is no longer news. Finops has been a discipline and a toolkit for years....
Microsoft is paywalling features in Notepad and Paint
There’s some bad news for Windows users who want to use all of the built-in features of the operating system and its integrated apps. Going forward, Microsoft is restricting features in two iconic apps, which you’ll need to unlock with a paid subsc...
Chromium Ozone/Wayland: the last mile stretch
Lets start with some context, the project consists of implementing, shipping and maintaining native Wayland support in the Chromium project. Our team at Igalia has been leading the effort since it was first merged upstream back in 2016. For more histor...
Gentoo Linux Announces Official QCOW2 Images For Cloud VMs
One of the Linux distributions we hear very little about in the industry for cloud/VM usage is Gentoo Linux. But that could change with the Gentoo project now putting out official QCOW2 disk images to make it easier deploying this source-based Linux di...
Chromium Ozone Support For Wayland Continues Progressing In 2025
Google engineers themselves haven't been energetically pursuing Wayland support within the Ozone abstraction layer for the Chrome/Chromium web browser but thankfully the consulting firm Igalia continues pushing this native Wayland support along. Nick Y...
Deno adds OpenTelemetry integration
Deno Land has released Deno 2.2, a new version of the Deno runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that features built-in OpenTelemetry for monitoring logs, metrics, and traces. The new Deno release also features Linter updates that include a new plugi...
Deno update brings OpenTelemetry integration
Deno Land has released Deno 2.2, a new version of the Deno runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that features built-in OpenTelemetry for monitoring logs, metrics, and traces. The new Deno release also features Linter updates that include a new plugi...
1972 UNIX V2 “beta” resurrected from old tapes
There’s a number of backups of old DECtapes from Dennis Ritchie, which he gave to Warren Toomey in 1997. The tapes were eventually uploaded, and through analysis performed by Yufeng Gao, a lot of additional details, code, and software were recovered ...
Apollo GraphQL ships connectors for REST APIs
Apollo GraphQL, provider of the GraphOS API orchestration platform, has introduced Apollo Connectors for REST APIs, a way to integrate REST APIs into a composable GraphQL architecture without writing boilerplate code. The company also announced Graph...
Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS is Available to Download
The Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS release is now available to download, albeit one week later than initially planned. Serving as the second point release in the current Ubuntu 24.04 LTS series, Ubuntu 24.04.2 compacts the slew of security, bug, and software upda...
