Steven Vaughan-Nichols

I am so unimpressed. A few days ago, in the latest Patch Tuesday release, Microsoft revealed five — count ’em, five! — zero-day security holes in Windows alone. Do you expect me to trust Recall with a track record like […]

Last year, I noted that OpenAI’s view on copyright is that it’s fine and dandy to copy, paste, and steal people’s work. OpenAI is far from alone. Anthropic, Google, and Meta all trot out the same tired old arguments: AI

HJBC/Getty Images It took Microsoft long enough, but the company has finally open-sourced its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) code. The announcement was made at the Build 2025 developer conference, closing a nearly nine-year-old request from the developer community, and

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Eric S. Raymond, one of open-source’s founders, famously said, “Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch.” That was certainly the case with Graydon Hoare, a Mozilla software developer, when he

NurPhoto / Getty Images Would you believe Microsoft has announced a new Linux distribution service for its Azure cloud service? You should.  For many years, the most popular operating system on Azure has not been Windows Server, it’s been Linux.

I don’t know about you, but I’m already tired of all the generative AI (genAI) hype. I’ve been using the technology for a while now, and I’ve found ways it can be helpful — primarily as a search engine replacement

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Qualcomm claims that my Samsung Galaxy S25 Plus’ Snapdragon 8 Elite CPU is faster than the Intel Core Ultra 288V chip. My smartphone also has 12GB of RAM and 512GB of solid-state storage. In short, it’s more powerful

Google Drive used to be just storage before Google took its online office suite, Google Docs, and pasted them together into Google One. If you’re a little confused because Google Workplace is also available, you’re in good company.  To clarify,

ZDNET IBM is zooming along with new open-source Granite Large Language Models (LLM) releases every few months. Granite 3.1  is the latest generation model, building upon the success of Granite 3.0. The model offers enhanced capabilities and performance optimized for business

For as long as college football has been around, deciding who the actual national champion was usually consisted of little more than endless bar and sports talk radio arguments. Then, in 1998, the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) appeared to pick