How to make lightweight Docker images (and keep them slim)
It’s a challenge keeping Docker images from bulking up unnecessarily. A single base image, a couple of RUN commands, and before you know it, you’re looking at an image weighing 200 MB or more. Is all that tonnage really necessary? Odds are you can...
Cloud development environments for the win
About 30 years ago this week, Delphi 1.0 was released. Many of you probably have no idea what Delphi is, but it was a revolutionary rapid application development environment tool. Delphi made developing Windows applications orders of magnitude faster...
Smart Traffic Enforcement: Kazakhstan’s Qorgau System in Action
Traffic management is a growing challenge for cities worldwide, requiring a balance between enforcement, efficiency, and public trust. In Kazakhstan, the Qorgau system is redefining road safety through an innovative fusion of artificial intelligence (...
Red Hat Developing "F-UKI" As Their Newest Open-Source Project
Red Hat engineer Anirban Sinha presented at FOSDEM 2025 last weekend in Brussels on F-UKI, a new project being worked on at Red Hat as part of the confidential computing push for loading guest firmware within a Unified Kernel Image (UKI) for confidenti...
cURL 8.12 Released With Its Rust Hyper Backend Removed
Back in December was word that cURL would be dropping its "Hyper" Rust HTTP back-end due to little demand and lack of developer interest for that experimental code. The cURL 8.12 release is out today with Hyper stripped out...
AWS tightens default security on Redshift
Amazon’s security improvements for its AWS Redshift managed data warehouse service are welcome additions, says an expert. Loris Degioanni, chief technology officer at Sysdig, told InfoWorld that AWS’s enhanced security defaults for Amazon Redshift...
Rust update fixes ‘forever’ compilation
The Rust Team has published a point release update, Rust 1.84.1, to address a few regressions in last month’s Rust 1.84 release, including fixing painfully slow compilation related to the next-generation trait solver. Announced January 30, Rust 1.84...
GRUB Continues Working Toward Its Next Release In 2025
As somewhat of an annual tradition for the FOSDEM conference, Daniel Kiper of Oracle presented a status update on the GRUB bootloader. As one of the GRUB maintainers he offers great insight to activity around this most common Linux bootloader...
