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You do Not chase my kitten!

This would be a lot funnier if it weren't completely true.

John C. Dvorak, a pioneering technology journalist, podcaster, and cultural commentator, passed away peacefully on the morning of Monday, July 20, 2026. He was 80 years old. For tech journalists of a certain age, there was a time when everyone knew him.

When you lied on your resume and still got the job.

I may have a problem.

For those of you who don't follow AI and programming, Claude Code came out in May 2025.

This is true.

Open weights are not #opensource: Why #AI 's favorite label is under dispute https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/09/15/open-weights-are-not-open-source-why-ais-favorite-label-is-under-dispute/5295436 via @theregister@geeknews.chat & @sjvn@mastodon.social Downloading a model is increasingly easy. Understanding how it was made, or changing a system at its root, is another matter.

Henry, #cat, king of the yard.

My first search engine.

It's worth a shot.

This wouldn't be half so funny if there wasn't a lot of truth to it.

More experience with 10 Downing St. than the last six Prime Ministers!

Data center to cloud migration.

Desktop Linux just cracked 10% market share - and Windows 11 is mostly to blame https://zdnet.com/article/the-linux-desktop-finally-cracks-the-10-market-share-barrier/ via @ZDNet@flipboard.com & @sjvn@mastodon.social Windows is in decline, and both Macs and #Linux are gaining ground at its expense.

This is so romantic.

Who needs AI to make silly memes!

This is true.

Voxiferi introduces VoxWall as an ‘AI ingress firewall’ for bad data https://opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/new-voxiferi-introduces-voxwall-as-an-ai-ingress-firewall-for-bad-data by @sjvn@mastodon.social Open-source vet Dick Morrell’s Voxiferi Labs has open-sourced VoxWall, a policy-driven gateway intended to stop bad data before it reaches #AI training, RAG, or inference.

Add your card's CCV number for even faster results!

This explains a lot.

97% of US database administrators are running obsolete programs . https://zdnet.com/business/why-companies-use-outdated-dbms-percona-report/ via @ZDNet@flipboard.com & @sjvn@mastodon.social Nearly all database professionals surveyed by Percona said their organizations still run database versions past their official end-of-life. Here's why

AWS Open-Sources Pizza Bot, an Inbox for Background AI Agents https://techstrong.ai/articles/aws-open-sources-pizza-bot-an-inbox-for-background-ai-agents/ via @techstrongai@mastodon.social & @sjvn@mastodon.social AWS has open-sourced Pizza Bot, a self-hosted app that lets AI agents work in the background & sends completed jobs or requests for approval in an email-style inbox.

Meanwhile, down on the farm: Terrible Chicken Poop (TCP) network.

Guess who will be speaking at the Nerderala tech conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, come September?

Accurate enough for web work.

It's an #AI web, and we're just rats in the walls. https://theregister.com/columnists/2026/07/12/its-an-ai-web-and-were-just-rats-in-the-walls/5269760 via @theregister@geeknews.chat & @sjvn@mastodon.social Bots, not people, are now the ones who "create" and use the Internet the most.

@withaveeay@mastodon.scot There were a few, but not many. He started his career at InfoWorld and at Ziff-Davis, the publisher I always end up writing for over and over again; he was in pretty much every magazine. I edited him at Computer Shopper.

Yes.

Wi-Fi 7 adoption in the US quadrupled in a year - is it time to upgrade? https://zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/wifi-7-adoption-in-us-quadrupled-in-year-time-to-upgrade/#ftag=COS-05-10aaa0j via @ZDNet@flipboard.com & @sjvn@mastodon.social Yes, yes, it is. #WiFi 7 for the win.

SpaceX wants to launch 100,000 more #Starlink satellites - for 100x the bandwidth https://zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/spacex-wants-to-launch-100000-more-starlink-satellites/ via @ZDNet@flipboard.com & @sjvn@mastodon.social It would mean faster Internet for rural customers, but astronomers have another take entirely

Tech restrooms.

Cisco Antares: A New Family of Open Source, Inexpensive Compact Security AI Models https://securityboulevard.com/2026/07/cisco-antares-a-new-family-of-open-source-inexpensive-compact-security-ai-models/ by @sjvn@mastodon.social Cisco Antares is a new family of cheap, local security #AI models to help you find vulnerable code without frontier model costs.

Linus Torvalds puts his foot down, tells anti-AI programmers to 'fork it' https://zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-puts-his-foot-down-tells-anti-ai-programmers-to-fork-it/ via @ZDNet@flipboard.com & @sjvn@mastodon.social "#AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one." If you don't like it, you can fork #Linux or get out.

@martinlentink@mastodon.social True!

What really happened in the Hugging Face breach: https://thenewstack.io/openai-huggingface-sandbox-breach/ via @TheNewStack@hachyderm.io & @sjvn@mastodon.social It's both more complicated and simpler than you think, and there are some lessons you can learn from this incident. #AI #Security

The third major Linux kernel flaw in two weeks has been found - thanks to AI https://zdnet.com/article/third-major-linux-kernel-flaw-in-two-weeks-found-by-ai/ via @ZDNet@flipboard.com & @sjvn@mastodon.social #AI is exposing #Linux security holes almost faster than developers can patch them.

OpenAI's rogue agent didn't stop at Hugging Face - here's what we know https://zdnet.com/article/openais-rogue-ai-models-attacked-other-companies-besides-hugging-face/ via @ZDNet@flipboard.com & @sjvn@mastodon.social The same autonomous OpenAI agent that escaped its test environment and breached Hugging Face was also busy hacking other #AI systems. Lucky us.

And cats. Can't forget cats.

After Tim Cook stepped down as CEO of Apple. I'd hoped Trump would also step down. ︀︀ Of course, I'm comparing apples to oranges.

@strght@mastodon.social I beg to disagree. I've been using and loving ThinkPads for decades.

@stux@mstdn.social Excuse me?

Tigera Introduces Lynx, a Unified Control Plane for Kubernetes‑Native AI Agents https://cloudnativenow.com/features/tigera-introduces-lynx-a-unified-control-plane-for-kubernetes%e2%80%91native-ai-agents/ by @sjvn@mastodon.social The first ready-to-run control plane for #AI agents on #Kubernetes is here.

@wettpaynt@mastodon.social @9pfs@tilde.zone @cweickhmann@qoto.org Classic!

Apache Spark 4.2: Making Your Data AI‑Developer Friendly https://techstrong.it/featured/apache-spark-4-2-making-your-data-ai-developer-friendly/ by @sjvn@mastodon.social#AI developers who already use Spark for feature engineering will see immediate advantages. Everyone else should check it out.

@sovietfish@todon.eu Mine did.