Firefox 138 Released with Long-Awaited Profile Manager
At long last, Mozilla Firefox has native profile management features – and they don’t suck! The feature, which begins rolling out in today’s Firefox 138 update, is the latest “big ticket” feature the browser has belatedly sought to add, follo...
5 ways generative AI boosts cloud and IT operations
Anyone who thinks engineers, administrators, and analysts in IT operations have an easy job hasn’t spent enough time in their shoes. Automation, observability, and machine learning help IT operations deploy and manage many more large-scale and missi...
Why hasn’t cheaper hardware lowered cloud prices?
Public cloud providers have established themselves as the primary lifeline for modern enterprise IT, delivering unprecedented scalability, operational efficiency, and innovation. Despite all the advancements they’ve ushered in, businesses are notici...
Trinity Desktop Environment R14.1.4 released
The Trinity Desktop Environment, the modern-day continuation of the KDE 3.x series, has released version R14.1.4. This maintenance release brings new vector wallpapers and colour schemes, support for Unicode surrogate characters and planes above zero (...
Microsoft previews SignalR client for iOS
Microsoft has introduced a Swift client for its SignalR library for ASP.NET, allowing iOS developers to add real-time web functionality to their applications. SignalR Swift is a client library for connecting to SignalR servers from Swift applications...
Turntable is a Universal Scrobbling App for Linux
Those looking for an easy way to “scrobble” music on Linux, no matter which music player they use, should check out a new app called Turntable. But before I go any further I should bring those unfamiliar with what a “scrobble” is, up to speed. ...
Turntable is a Universal Scrobbler App for Linux
Those looking for an easy way to “scrobble” music on Linux, no matter which music player they use, should check out a new app called Turntable. But before I go any further I should bring those unfamiliar with what a “scrobble” is, up to speed. ...
AWS updates Amazon Bedrock’s Data Automation capability
AWS has updated the Data Automation capability inside its generative AI service Amazon Bedrock to further support the automation of generating insights from unstructured data and bring down the development time required for building applications under...
14 tiny tricks for big cloud savings
When the cost of cloud computing is listed in cents or even fractions of a cent, it’s hard to remember that even small numbers can add up to big bills. Yet they do, and every month it seems CFOs come close to dying of multiple heart attacks when the...
OpenSearch in 2025: Much more than an Elasticsearch fork
Open source has never been more popular. It’s also never been more contentious. With hundreds of billions of dollars available to the companies that best turn open source into easy-to-use cloud services, vendors have fiercely competed for enterprise...
OpenBSD 7.7 released
Another six months have passed, so it’s time for a new OpenBSD release: OpenBSD 7.7 to be exact. Browsing through the long, detailed list of changes, a few important bits jump out. First, OpenBSD 7.7 adds support for Ryzen AI 300 (Strix Point, Strix ...
Baidu hits the turbo button to get back into AI race
An industry analyst Friday offered a lukewarm response to a series of announcements from Chinese tech giant Baidu around upgrades to its multimodal foundation model, ERNIE 4.5, and reasoning model, ERNIE X1, first released last month. During his keyno...
The VTech Socratic method
We’ve had a lot of fun with VTech’s computers in the past on this blog. Usually, they’re relatively spartan computers with limited functionality, but they did make something very interesting in the late 80s. The Socrates is their hybrid video gam...
Thesys introduces generative UI API for building AI apps
AI software builder Thesys has introduced C1 by Thesys, which the company describes as a generative UI API that uses large language models (LLMs) to generate user interfaces on the fly. Unveiled April 18, C1 by Thesys is available for general use. C1 ...
