Ubuntu's Snap Affected By Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Last week it was security issues with AppArmor to worry about on Ubuntu Linux while this week a 'high' rated vulnerability for Ubuntu's Snap daemon has been revealed.
Last December, tens of thousands of Claude users around the world had a conversation with our AI interviewer to share how they use AI, what they dream it could make possible, and what they fear it might do.
Migrating a 1TB PostgreSQL from AWS to Azure with pgcopydb
How we used pgcopydb to migrate a 1TB PostgreSQL database from AWS to Azure, covering migration strategies, Kubernetes execution, and the pitfalls we encountered along the way.
Open source is critical infrastructure, not just a development model
Open source has moved beyond development model and cost strategy — it's now critical global infrastructure. Here's what the Linux Foundation Member Summit revealed about sovereignty, AI economics, and where the ecosystem is heading.
pgit: What If Your Git History Was a SQL Database? - Oliver Seifert
I built a Git-like CLI backed by PostgreSQL with delta compression. Benchmarked on 20 real repos totaling 274k commits, it outcompresses git gc --aggressive on 12 out of 20 repositories while making your entire commit history SQL-queryable.
Open Source Gave Me Everything Until I Had Nothing Left to Give
I thought I was having a spiritual awakening. I was having a psychiatric emergency. I was at a tech conference in Sweden when it started. I hadn't slept in...
That's a real stretch | U.S. Says Anthropic Is an ‘Unacceptable’ National Security Risk
In a legal filing, the government said it questioned whether the A.I. start-up could be a “trusted partner” in wartime, which led it to label the company a supply chain risk.
When I worked for the UK Government I was once asked if we could find a way to pay for all the Open Source Software we were using. It is a surprisingly hard problem and I want to talk about some of the issues we faced. The UK Government publishes a lot of Open Source code - nearly everything developed in-house by the state is available under an OSI Approved licence. The UK is generally pretty…