Twitter/Bluesky ADX Algorithm | Cloud Energy Use ‘Tripled’ | Apple Staff are Revolting
In this week’s The Long View: Bluesky—Twitter’s research spinout—opens its ADX algorithm, Irish data-center electricity worries grow, and Apple employees are the latest to rise up against hybrid working.
What Should Elon Musk Do? | Passwordless Future: Tense | WebKit iOS Monopoly Ends?
In this week’s The Long View: Everyone has Twitter advice for Elon Musk, passwordless vision is vacuous, and Apple prevented from forcing Safari.
Wi-Fi 7 Chips Ahoy | Google ‘Gone Downhill Fast’ | Real-World ‘Severance’
In this week’s The Long View: The first silicon for Wi-Fi 7, Google’s search quality is failing, and what “Severance” tells us about The Great Resignation.
Russian Dev Exodus | Puppet IPO FAIL | Intel 18A Ahead of Sched.
In this week’s The Long View: More than 100,000 tech workers leave Russia, Perforce buys Puppet, and Intel moves faster than planned.
Facebook Bans Innocent Users | Azure and ARM/Ampere | ‘Great Resignation’—No End in Sight
In this week’s The Long View: No remedy for banned Facebook users, new ARM-based VMs on Microsoft Azure, and The Great Resignation will still be a Thing for the foreseeable.
Lapsus$ Shames Okta/Sitel | Bitcoin Nukes Climate | EU DMA E2EE FAIL
In this week’s The Long View: Okta and Sitel under fire over Lapsus$ hack, Greenpeace and others call for bitcoin change, and Europe still hates encryption.
Apple Outage Outrage | Linux Random Redo | Okta Hacked (or Not)
In this week’s The Long View: Why Apple services were down, Linux gets a huge RNG overhaul, and we wonder if Okta was hacked again.
CSS-Tricks Sells Out | Peloton Spins Out | ARM Axes 1,000
In this week’s The Long View: CSS-Tricks gets bought by DigitalOcean, Peloton fiddles while its business burns, and Arm lays off up to 15% of staff.
TikTok Shuns Russia | War on Patent Trolls | Chrome is ‘Faster than Safari’
In this week’s The Long View: ByteDance restricts TikTok in Russia, Unified Patents escalates the fight against trolls, and Google Chrome beats the magic 300.
Ukraine Asks for DNS Censorship | Ukraine Snapchat Staff Danger | #BoycottKaspersky?
In this week’s The Long View: Censoring the Russian internet, Snap fears for hundreds of Ukrainian employees, and Eugene Kaspersky acts like a ****.
Akamai: Buying Linode | Firefox: Not OK | Gone: Google Vaccine Mandate
In this week’s The Long View: Linode bought by Akamai, Firefox market share “measly,” and Google brings staff back to the office.
IBM ‘is Ageist and Sexist’ | IBM Mainframe-aaS | IBM Vaccine Mandate
In this week’s The Long View: IBM’s employment practices get held up to scrutiny, IBM z/OSaaS breaks cover, and IBM encourages staff back to the office.
Unreliable Server Scare | Information Batteries | ARM IPO PDQ
In this week’s The Long View: We worry about chips failing randomly, we ponder a new way of thinking about workload shifting, and we grok Arm’s IPO.
App Store Antitrust Bill | GDPR vs. Google Fonts | Wordle Worth $1M+
In this week’s The Long View: The Open App Markets Act polls well among devs, Germany fines a website for using Google Fonts, and the NY Times buys Wordle for an unfeasible sum.
Google FLoC is Dead | Meta AI Supercomputer Lives | ARM Deal is Dead
In this week’s The Long View: Google’s FLoC proposal is dead, Meta/Facebook is buying RSC—a huge AI supercomputer, and Arm “will IPO” instead of selling to Nvidia.
Zoom-Layoff CEO is Back | Bill Bans Targeted Ads | More FAA 5G Stupidity
In this week’s The Long View: The return of the CEO who fired 900 staff on a Zoom call, Capitol Hill has a bill to kill ads, and a last-minute hiccup in the FAA/FCC 5G truce.
EEEWW—Green iMessage Bubbles | ‘Great Resignation’ Redux | Faster Firefox 96
In this week’s The Long View: iMessage lock-in lessons, attrition-rate fixes, and more on Mozilla.
Theranos’s Holmes VC Reverb | 5G C-Band Marches On | Mozilla Jumps Shark
In this week’s The Long View: The conviction of Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes leads to greater scrutiny of startups, higher-frequency 5G NR is creeping towards reality, and Mozilla gets criticized for promoting climate-harming scams.
Rails 7 FTW | WFH is SOP | 586M Passwords Dumped
In this week’s The Long View: Ruby on Rails 7.0 is go, working from home is still de rigueur, and HIBP gets far, far bigger.
U.S. Govt. CX EO | Mozilla Revenue | Log4j Latest
In this week’s The Long View: Improving U.S. government CX, how much money Mozilla makes, and the latest on the Log4j/Log4Shell débâcle.
Linus Torvalds Sees Lots of Hardware Headaches Ahead
Linux founder Linus Torvalds, today at the KubeCon + CloudNative + Open Source Summit China conference, warned attendees that managing software is about to become a lot more challenging, largely because of two hardware issues that are beyond the control of DevOps teams. The first, he said, is the steady stream of patches being generated […]
Which Desktop OS Is Best for DevOps?
Which operating system (OS) is best for DevOps engineers to use on their workstations? That’s a weighty question. Talk about which OS is “best” for any purpose is always controversial. I’m not going to stick my neck out by saying that one OS is definitively better than others when it comes to doing DevOps work. […]
SREs: The Happiest – and Highest Paid – in the Industry
According to the 2019 StackOverflow survey completed by 90,000 developers around the world, whether you are already a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) or thinking about becoming one, looks like you are onto something. SREs, also called DevOps specialists, are a pretty unique type of talent; one that has knowledge in both software development and system […]