Here are three AI-enabled strategies that organizations should implement to help IT teams prepare for times of uncertainty.

Technically, containerization should be more cost-effective by default, but Kubernetes is riddled with expensive cost traps that may cause you to go over your budget. Fortunately, you have a few tactics to keep cloud costs at bay, and autoscaling is one of them. Kubernetes comes with three built-in autoscaling mechanisms to help you do that.…

Flux is a -based open source stack of tools that make it possible to keep Kubernetes clusters in sync with external sources of configuration, such as repositories on GitHub. With this in place, you can set up the automation of updates when there is new code ready for deployment. With this "GitOps" approach, you experience…

Google spawned it, Cloudflare backed it, Microsoft made its own cut. Boffins worry it didn't improve privacy

The recruitment process can take days… Do you want to know why?

This article revisits the SMART Maturity Assessment Method to create a similar tool that would facilitate tracking a company or team's progress through their digital transformation journey and adoption of DevOps culture.

1. Transportation 2. Agriculture and Related Industries 3. Food, Beverages, and Tobacco Products 4. Metal, Metal Products, and Machinery 5. Textiles, Textile Products, and Clothing 6. Mining and Quarrying 7. Banking 8. Wood, Lumber, and Their Products 9. Leather and Allied Products 10. Slaughtering and Meat Packing That is from the new and excellent An […]

A new approach in the way the Census aggregates its data could make it more difficult to do extreme gerrymandering, says Moon Duchin.

I recently came across the following Nature article, “People systematically overlook subtractive changes.” From the abstract: “Here we show that people systematically default to searching for additive transformations, and consequently overlook subtractive transformations. Across eight experiments, participants were less likely to identify advantageous subtractive changes … Defaulting to searches for additive changes may be one […]

Memorial Day is an American holiday. It is a day when we pause from our busy lives – and those oh so important furniture and appliance sales – to

We created a 3-D model of Greenwood, home of “Black Wall Street,” as it was before a white mob set it on fire 100 years ago.

We rarely do or say something intentionally that surprises us. That’s because we are in intimate contact with the noise in our heads–we spend our days looking in the mirror, listening t…

This piece has had a lot of very smart push-back (and forward, but mostly back). I respond to it in Part II, here. If you haven’t seen it yet, watch Apple’s Privacy on iPhone | tracked …

Books are written almost a year before they come out. Tweets take about 24 seconds to launch. Which world would you like to live in, book-world or twitter-world? If you were designing an ad campaig…

It’s interesting and useful to look at and learn about what history’s great minds have said and written. But ultimately, what matters is who you

In 1959, Miles Davis released what one could argue was the greatest album of the Twentieth Century- certainly the greatest jazz album- “Kind of Blue”, on

Over the next two weeks, the boards of BAE Systems, AstraZeneca, Glencore, Flutter Entertainment and the London Stock Exchange all face the possibility of shareholder revolts over executive pay at

Great post from Jean-Luc Aufranc up on CNX Software. I usually think of open-source hardware and/or software are enabling skilled people to more easily fix bugs, improve on the design, get feedback…

The The Keyboard Builders’ Digest is really neat reddit / web magazine. About the KBD magazine – The Keyboard Builders’ Digest is a weekly selection of the best keyboard related p…

The revolution is already happening.

The seccomp() mechanism allows a process to load a BPF program to restrict its future use of system calls; it is a simple but flexible sandboxing mechanism that is widely used. Those filter programs, though, run on the "classic" BPF virtual machine, rather than the extended BPF (eBPF) machine used elsewhere in the kernel. Moving seccomp() to eBPF has been an often-requested change, but security concerns have prevented that from happening. The latest attempt to enable eBPF is this patch set from YiFei Zhu; whether it will succeed where others have failed remains to be seen.

I suspect some people are suffering from “lock in” PTSD. It shouldn’t surprise anyone to see masses of young people, and those in their twenties, clogging the streets up now that the pubs are open. Most of them have spent...

I stopped buying Macs in 2012. At that stage Apple's disinterest in the Mac was apparent to anyone paying attention. It was all crappy keyboards and the odd incremental update from then on. What with the western world opening in...

A drone that can select and engage targets on its own attacked soldiers during a civil conflict in Libya.

Being an intellectual is not really how it is depicted in popular culture.

Amazon's experimental wireless mesh networking turns users into guinea pigs.

MIT alumni Benton Calhoun and David Wentzloff are co-founders of Everactive, the MIT-connected startup using wireless sensing to provide continuous remote monitoring for the industrial internet of things.

How our fantasy world of the past has become everyday reality.

It means two very different things. When a person or a marketer takes your time, they’re stealing. Something irretrievable is gone. If your time is taken for selfish reasons, if it’s wa…