These also work well in tech journalism. www.newscientist.com/article/2477...

OpenAI and DeepSeek pricing bets have split the market. Here's why the AI middle class is disappearing and how developers must adapt to a new economy.

I’m still reeling from this one in GQ last month.

Pretty much.

My favorite random password generator.

Meta abandons open-source Llama for proprietary Muse Spark: thenewstack.io/meta-abandon... via @thenewstack.io & @sjvn.bsky.social If you're still using the #opensource #AI Llama, Meta's left you without a migration path.

Just published on FOSS Force: Fedora 44 Brings GNOME 50, KDE 6.6, and Better Gaming (With Screenshots) fossforce.com/2026/04/fedo...

venturebeat.com/data/the-ret... RAG is not dead it is being enhanced - it's an approach I call the retrieval rebuild ->Why 22% of enterprises have stepped back from RAG — and what Q1 data says about what comes next

www.networkworld.com/article/4165... I've been a networking 'guy' for a long time. But the kids out there today..they don't know ...and there is a looming skills gap that could be a real problem (one day). That's a key promise that agentic AI could bring to networking that Auvik is betting on.

Warp's gamble: Going open source to take on closed-source rivals: thenewstack.io/warp-open-so... via @thenewstack.io & @sjvn.bsky.social Will Warp, the OpenAI-friendly, agentic development environment going #opensource, help it gain users? The company's sure hoping so. #AI

Ommm!

I talked with James White, VP of AI for F5, about the state of AI post-Mythos. We talked about how Mythos proves AI is grown up and can do real work. Mythos, he said, is on the leading edge of a new class of AI models specialized for specific tasks. My latest on Fierce Network.

When AI Goes Really, Really Wrong: How PocketOS Lost All Its Data devops.com/when-ai-goes... by @sjvn.bsky.social There's plenty of blame: Human error and a brittle infrastructure, but an AI that didn't so much ignore guardrails as bulldoze them has its share as well.

Just published on FOSS Force: From Copilot to Canonical: How Ubuntu Plans to Add AI Without Taking Over Your PC fossforce.com/2026/04/from...

Microsoft finally open sources DOS 1.0 - and it's so much more than the code zdnet.com/article/micr... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social Want a blast from the past? Microsoft just open-sourced its very first operating system, offering a rare insight into the PC's earliest days.

Locked, stocked, and losing budget: #AI vendor lock-in bites back theregister.com/2026/04/28/l... via @theregister.com & @sjvn.bsky.social Execs in the C-suite thought they could swap models in a week. It wasn't the LLMs that were hallucinating; it was them.

What happens after Russia's abducted children finally return to Ukraine? "Returning alone is not enough. Reintegration is one of the most complex stages of this process," writes Iryna Tuliakova, Head of Ukraine's Coordination Center for Family Upbringing and Child Care Development, in this op-ed.

You know this must be real because this GIF was made before AI slop was everywhere.

Canonical's approach to AI is refreshingly thoughtful - Microsoft should take note zdnet.com/article/cano... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social With Ubuntu #Linux 26.04, you decide how you want to use #AI. What a novel idea! Perhaps Microsoft could take notes!

What happens when amateur hackers have the tools to iterate through exploits at machine speed? @yaelwrites.com on neu script kiddies, what happens after Mythos, and how companies can prepare: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Trump's administration is so, so stupid. How stupid are they? I give you: people.com/king-charles...

GitHub Copilot shifts to usage-based pricing June 1 - why that's no surprise zdnet.com/article/gith... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social You can kiss the day of cheap #AI usage goodbye, and users hate it. Tough. AI prices have never come close to paying the costs and the bill's due.

Freaking sudo!

AI's not going to kill open source code security theregister.com/2026/04/26/o... via @theregister.com & @sjvn.bsky.social Don't follow Cal's footsteps and dump #opensource for fear that #AI will reveal security problems. It's not worth it.

Go straight to sell! Windows second-chance setup hawks Microsoft services at IT's expense theregister.com/2026/04/26/w... via @theregister.com No, Microsoft. I don't want Xbox Game Pass Premium on my work PC.

There are all kinds of stupid.

IBM, Red Hat, and Google are aligning around a shared future for AI infrastructure. @sjvn.bsky.social breaks down how llm-d brings scalable, vendor-neutral LLM inference to Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

98% of IT leaders want digital sovereignty: Now SUSE is operationalizing it for companies everywhere www.zdnet.com/article/suse... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social I've followed SUSE for decades. Here's how it's helping organizations control their data and avoid lock-in.

Built for a hostile internet: Canonical VP of Engineering on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS www.zdnet.com/article/buil... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social Everything you wanted to know about Ubuntu #Linux 26.04 from the Canonical executive in charge of building it.

Red Hat Digital Sovereignty Take: Red Hat Confirmed Sovereign Support techstrong.it/featured/red... by @sjvn.bsky.social Red Hat's a US company, but it promises its European customers that Red Hat Confirmed Sovereign Support can still keep their data and services safe.

Microsoft trims cloud desktop pricing, even as it boosts AI costs computerworld.com/article/4161... via @computerworld.com & @sjvn.bsky.social Microsoft really wants you to try Windows as a Service and, oh, by the way, wouldn't you like some #AI with that while you're at it?

SUSE and Nvidia reveal a turnkey AI factory for sovereign enterprise workloads: thenewstack.io/suse-nvidia-... via @thenewstack.io & @sjvn.bsky.social Want to run your own digitally sovereign #AI on Nvidia hardware? SUSE has the software stack you need.

The job description said "remote work," but nothing was specified about just how remote it would be. (Currently working from a Hyatt hotel room in Prague).

Age checks could turn internet into an ID checkpoint, complains Proton CEO

Look who's defunding the police www.reuters.com/world/trumps...

venturebeat.com/data/the-mod... Google today made 80+ data-related announcements organized under a single architectural argument: "The data architecture has to change now," Andi Gutmans, VP and GM of Data Cloud at Google Cloud, told VentureBeat. "We're moving from human scale to agent scale."

Need an ELI5 explanation of electric vertical take‑off and landing (#eVTOL) vehicles? This should do it for ya. www.aptiv.com/en/insights/...

Microsoft trims cloud desktop pricing, even as it boosts AI costs www.computerworld.com/article/4161... via @computerworld.com & @sjvn.bsky.social Microsoft really wants you to try Windows as a Service and, oh, by the way, wouldn't you like some #AI with that while you're at it?

I'm not kidding around, Claude. Answer the question, or I'm going back to ChatGPT!

And, so it was that Apple elected a new Pope, uh, CEO. Oh, right, CEO.

What I love most about this video is how you still had to turn the adapter around once before it would fit.

SUSE and Nvidia reveal a turnkey AI factory for sovereign enterprise workloads: thenewstack.io/suse-nvidia-... via @thenewstack.io & @sjvn.bsky.social Want to run your own digitally sovereign #AI on #Nvidia hardware? #SUSE has the software stack you need.

Just published on FOSS Force: When Your Xorg Fork Is More About DEI Than Display Servers buff.ly/M3xwq6V

Classic.

'Like handing out the blueprint to a bank vault': Why AI led one company to abandon open source zdnet.com/article/ai-s... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social Cal left #opensource because #AI has made it, it claims, impossible for the company to reliably secure its code.

You can try Linux 7.0 now on these distros - here's what's new zdnet.com/article/try-... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social Want to kick the tires of the #Linux 7.0 kernel? These distros are ready to run.

Digital sovereignty isn't just a buzzword – it's the future theregister.com/2026/04/13/d... via @theregister.com & @sjvn.bsky.social Many American companies are feeling the heat, so they're setting up plans to assure the EU that they're still trustworthy. Europeans aren't buying it.

Double the batteries, double the... wait a cotton-picking minute!

Finally, a use for AI I can get completely behind. techstrong.ai/articles/ai-...

I love the idea of space travel. I'd still like to go myself. But this, although it was a brilliant success, is not the way to do it. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...