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In case you hadn’t noticed, humanoid robots have joined the workforce.  An evergreen staple of science fiction, autonomous AI-driven machines with feet, legs that bend at the knee, torsos, arms with hands and fingers, all topped with a head are now being deployed in real...

Polymorphism refers to the ability of some entities to occur in different forms. It is popularly represented by the butterfly, which morphs from larva to pupa to imago. Polymorphism also exists in programming languages, as a modeling technique that allows you to create a...

From the editors of our sister publication Network World, this enterprise buyer’s guide helps network IT staff understand what requirements artificial intelligence (AI) brings to your computing infrastructure and how to choose the right solution.

Microsoft has released a seventh preview of its forthcoming.NET 9 software development platform, with enhancements to C# for API authors. The.NET runtime, SDK, and other areas also are improved. Accessible from dotnet.microsoft.com,.NET 9 Preview 7 was unveiled August...

There’s been a few new releases since the last time we talked about MenuetOS, back in March of this year when version 1.50.00 was released, so I figured it was time to take a look at what the project’s been up to. And just in case you don’t remember – MenuetOS is 64 bit opera...

But last month, that hand-me-down network was dealt a blow when Happiest Baby, the company that makes Snoo, began charging for access to some of the bassinet’s premium features — features that used to be available to Snoo users indefinitely, at no extra cost. Now, access ...

The FreeBSD Project is, for the second time this year, engaging in a long-running discussion about the possibility of including Rust in its base system. The sequel to the first discussion included some work by Alan Somers to show what it might look like to use Rust code in...

Today's crop of new stable kernels consists of seven new versions: 6.10.6, 6.6.47, 6.1.106, 5.15.165, 5.10.224, 5.4.282, and 4.19.320. As usual, each contains important fixes throughout the kernel tree.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (python-asyncssh), Fedora (bind, bind-dyndb-ldap, httpd, and tor), SUSE (cosign, cpio, curl, expat, java-11-openjdk, ncurses, netty, netty-tcnative, opera, python-Django, python-Pillow, shadow, sudo, and wpa_supplicant), and Ubuntu ...

Hetzner no longer offers a FreeBSD rescue system but it is possible to install and manage FreeBSD with OpenZFS from the Linux rescue system on a dedicated server with UEFI boot. The installation is done on a mirrored OpenZFS pool consisting of two drives. ↫ Martin Matuska...

It’s no secret that organizations are deploying more and more cloud services as they look for ways to increase business agility and scalability while reducing costs. But in an interesting twist, increased cloud adoption can lead to runaway spending. As a result,...

Straight out of the webscale playbook, platform engineering was considered a futuristic discipline until just a few years ago. Would platform engineering really trickle down to mainstream enterprise teams? Did companies really want to operate their infrastructure like the...

Information security has always been important, but never as sexy as legacy modernization, AI, or pretty much anything else IT spends money on. In general, security is the sort of thing CIOs wish they’d invested more money on—after they’ve had a breach. But things have ...

The Rust code being added to the kernel is documented using the usual rustdoc conventions; that documentation is now available on kernel.org in formatted form. There is also the linux-next version of the documentation for Rust code that will land in the kernel soon.