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The Librem 13—"the first 13-inch ultraportable designed to protect your digital life"—ticks all the boxes, but is it as good in real life as it is on paper? This computer is lightning fast, and it's easily the best laptop I've ever owned. More than anything, I'm glad this is a system I purchased and not a "review copy", so I don't have to send it back!

We're using containers now. But securing them? Well, that's another matter. And Google has an answer with its newly open-sourced gVisor, which runs containers in a secured sandbox.

News briefs for May 3, 2018.

There are times when multiple users are logged in to a server computer, and you - the system/network admin - need to, say, restart the server to perform some maintenance task. Of course, the correct way is to inform all those who are logged in about the maintenance activity. Thankfully, Linux offers a built in command line utility for this purpose, the wall command.

Ten years ago, essentially the only people thinking hard about distributed tracing were academics and a handful of large internet companies. Today, it’s turned into table stakes for any organization adopting microservices. The rationale is well-established: microservices fail in surprising and often spectacular ways, and distributed tracing is the best way to describe and diagnose those failures. read more

The concept of machine learning, which is a subset of artificial intelligence, has been around for some time. Ali Ghodsi, an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley, describes it as “an advanced statistical technique to make predictions on a massive amount of data.” Here, he shares insight on these projects, various use-cases, and the future of machine learning.

It happened again. Another major web service lost control of its database, and now you're scrambling to stay ahead of the bad guys.

Let's say you want to run a games server, a server that runs Minetest, a very cool and open source mining and crafting sandbox game. You want to set it up for your school or friends and have it running on a server in your living room. Because, you know, if that’s good enough for the kernel mailing list admins, then it's good enough for you.

IT-mandated password policies seem like a good idea—after all, what are the chances that an attacker will guess your exact passcode out of the 782 million potential combinations in an eight-character string with at least one upper-case letter, one lower-case letter, two numerals, and one symbol? 

Oculus has launched an untethered, 3DOF head tracking “Oculus Go” VR headset for $199. The Go runs Android on a Snapdragon 821 and offers a 5.5-inch 2560 x 1440 display and two-hour plus battery life.

I’m a huge fan of Grails. For me, the only real downside to building something in Grails is that the documentation tends to move quite a bit more slowly than the code. This is especially true for the learning materials that exist outside the reference documentation.

In a world rapidly moving to the cloud, investors, customers, and developers are watching the "cloud wars" with bated breath. As cloud giants rise and the backbone of a new kind of infrastructure is forged before our eyes, it is critical for those of us on the ground to stay agile to maintain our technical and economic edge. (This article was co-written with Lindsey Tulloch. )

Akademy 2018 organisers have published the program for the conference part of the event. This year the event will be held in Vienna, and talks will take place on the 11th and 12th of August.

The efforts of Project Atomic in the area of Open Container Initiative (OCI) has given a great tool called Buildah. Buildah helps with  creating, building and updating container images supporting Docker formatted images as well as OCI compliant images. Buildah handles building container images without the need to have a full container runtime or daemon....

Facebook already uses PyTorch in-house for its machine learning and artificial intelligence projects and now it's open-sourcing it for everyone.

Nexcom’s “vDNA 1160” appliance for 5G vCPE and edge computing runs on an Atom C3000 with Intel VT-x, VT-d, and QAT technologies, and has 2x 10GbE SFP+, 6x GbE, 2x USB 3.0, 2x M.2, and SATA. Nexcom calls the vDNA 1160 a “virtualization networks and software-defined appliance” designed for 5G virtual customer premise equipment (vCPE)...

It's not every day that a new law comes into force that will have major implications for digital industries around the globe. It's even rarer when a such law will also bolster free software's underlying philosophy. But the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will be enforced from May 25, 2018, does both of those things, making its appearance one of the most important events in the history of open source.

It's the latest vulnerability that risks an attack to the core of any major plant's operations at a time when these systems have become a greater target in recent years.

If you've built batch data pipelines, but didn't know the best way to check their health or test changes for potential regressions, this article is for you. read more

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache web server on a Debian 9 (Stretch) server with PHP (mod_php) and MySQL / MariaDB support. A LAMP setup is a perfect basis for CMS systems like Joomla, Wordpress or Drupal.