Tech Blog: AI, Security, Infrastructure & Open Source

As Adobe Flash reaches its official end of life on December 31, 2020, it’s worth reflecting on what it gave us and the lessons its rise and fall teach about web standards.

Red Hat’s decision to shift CentOS from a stable downstream rebuild to a rolling upstream preview has sent shockwaves through the server community.

The SolarWinds supply chain attack is a watershed moment for software security — and it has profound implications for how we build, ship, and trust code.

FireEye discloses that sophisticated attackers stole their red team tools. The implications for the security industry — and every organization using those tools — are serious.

Salesforce’s $27.7 billion acquisition of Slack signals a consolidation wave in enterprise software. Developers should pay attention.

DeepMind’s AlphaFold 2 achieves near-experimental accuracy in protein structure prediction at CASP14. This is what AI breakthroughs actually look like.

TypeScript 4.1 ships template literal types, key remapping, and recursive conditional types - pushing the boundaries of what a type system can express.

Apple just shipped their first ARM-based Mac chips. The M1 looks impressive on paper, but what does this transition actually mean for developers?

OpenAI’s GPT-3 API is spawning a wave of developer tools and startups. The implications for software development are becoming clearer — and more nuanced — than the initial hype suggested.

Docker Hub’s new rate limits take effect November 1st. If you haven’t prepared your build pipelines, you’re about to find out the hard way.

A joint NSA/CISA advisory details 25 CVEs actively exploited by Chinese state-sponsored actors. The uncomfortable truth: most are well-known and patchable.

HashiCorp announced two new open-source tools at HashiConf Digital — Waypoint for application deployment and Boundary for secure remote access. Here’s why they matter.