GitHub to unbundle Advanced Security
GitHub announced plans to unbundle its GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) product, breaking it up into two standalone products: GitHub Secret Protection and GitHub Code Security. The unbundling is set to happen on April 1. GitHub Secret Protection will d...
Ubuntu 25.04 Default Wallpaper & Mascot Unveiled
The default wallpaper for Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ has been unveiled. Each new Ubuntu release bears a bespoke desktop background and animal mascot, and the upcoming release of the Plucky Puffin proves no exception. Ubuntu 25.04’s default wall...
Red Hat's Stratis 3.8 Delivers New Features
It's been a while since a new Stratis feature release for this Red Hat led effort to enhance local storage management on Linux systems. Stratis was born out of a desire to provide Btrfs/ZFS-style features atop the mature XFS file-system and the Device ...
OpenAI takes on rivals with new Responses API, Agents SDK
OpenAI’s new Responses API and an upgraded Agents SDK will help enterprises more easily build agents with advanced reasoning and multimodal capabilities, the company said Wednesday. The new tools may help it fend off challenges from rivals such as A...
AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D Linux Benchmarks Forthcoming
Today marks the retail availability of the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D processors. At the top of the hour when the new AMD Zen 5 3D V-Cache processors went on sale, I found both the 9900X3D and 9950X3D in-stock and at MSRP pricing... Less t...
Airgapped Python: Setting up Python without a net(work)
The vast majority of modern software development revolves around one big assumption: that you always have a network connection. If you don’t, it’s typically because you’re on an airplane with no Wi-Fi, and that’s temporary. But what about when...
Designing a dynamic web application with Astro
Astro.js is among the most popular meta-frameworks for JavaScript developers, and for good reason. Astro makes it relatively easy to structure web applications for maximum effect with minimal effort. It can be hard to get your head around how Astro wo...
Why Wasm fascinates me
WebAssembly fascinates me. The notion of assembly language is as old as computing. Typically, assembly meant specific instructions for moving data around inside of a physical central processor. Everything in a computer is ones and zeros, but a layer a...
How Wasm reinvents web development
WebAssembly fascinates me. The notion of assembly language is as old as computing. Typically, assembly meant specific instructions for moving data around inside of a physical central processor. Everything in a computer is ones and zeros, but a layer a...
