Articles by CrankyBear
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Why space is a terrible place to cool a data center (thenewstack.io)

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Rocky Linux Founder Kurtzer Launches OpenWALDO to Open Up AI Training Data (techstrong.ai)

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Linux desktop use surged to 22% on one workday, Cloudflare data shows (zdnet.com)

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Tor still runs on altruism, but cheap hosting is pulling it off course (networkworld.com)

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The Linux Foundation Has Formally Launched the Tokenomics Foundation (techstrong.ai)

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Wi-Fi 7 adoption in the US quadrupled in a year – is it time to upgrade? (zdnet.com)

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Evolution, Not Reset: Prepare Platform Engineering 2.0 for Autonomous Agents (platformengineering.com)

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Cloudflare Has Open‑Sourced Cloudflare OS for AI Agents (techstrong.ai)

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Desktop Linux just cracked 10% market share – and Windows 11 is mostly to blame (zdnet.com)

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Mea Culpa: Apple Confesses It Can't Keep Up with AI Bug Reports (securityboulevard.com)

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AI is finding bugs faster than humans can fix them (zdnet.com)

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LLM Routers Have Become a Service Category of Their Own (techstrong.ai)

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OpenAI's rogue agent didn't stop at Hugging Face – here's what we know (zdnet.com)

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Open weights vs. closed: An AI civil war's afoot, and the stakes are existential (zdnet.com)

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Model Context Protocol Grows Up (techstrong.ai)

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Platform engineering 2.0 mitigates AI security and compliance risks (platformengineering.org)

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Kata Containers 4.0 is less a new feature release than a platform reset to Rust (opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com)

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What happened in the Hugging Face breach (thenewstack.io)

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Tested the System76 Thelio Mira: it's the custom Linux desktop of my dreams (zdnet.com)

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Cisco Antares: A New Family of Cheap, Open-Source, Compact Security AI Models (securityboulevard.com)

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90k Flock cameras have gone up in the US: What they track and how to check (zdnet.com)

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Apache Spark 4.2: Making Your Data AI‑Developer Friendly (techstrong.it)

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Perplexity Unveils Space, a Secure Sandbox Platform for AI Agents (techstrong.ai)

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Linus Torvalds puts his foot down, tells anti-AI programmers to 'fork it' (zdnet.com)

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X402 Foundation to Standardize Internet Payments for AI Agents (techstrong.ai)

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'Rust makes coding fun again': Why Linux is moving away from C (zdnet.com)

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CIQ Ascender Pro Gives Linux the Power to Proactively Fix the Infrastructure (techstrong.it)

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It's an AI web, and we're just rats in the walls (theregister.com)

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Red Hat will support your RHEL forever now – for a price (zdnet.com)

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SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth (zdnet.com)

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The OpenClaw Foundation: Reining in a Viral AI Agent (techstrong.ai)

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'I'm not a programmer' anymore: Linus Torvalds on the only two tools he uses now (zdnet.com)

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IBM and Red Hat launch Lightwell to defend open-source code from AI attacks (zdnet.com)

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Agent Name Service: The universal AI Agents identity system (opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com)

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Tigera Introduces Lynx, a Unified Control Plane for Kubernetes‑Native AI Agents (cloudnativenow.com)

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Platform Engineering 2.0: Manage AI Costs and Risks Without Rebuilding (platformengineering.com)

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Microsoft's new Azure Linux 4.0 is here, and it could replace Windows Server (zdnet.com)

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Boffins peg narcissistic leadership as the real driver behind 'return to office' (theregister.com)

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Digital Sovereignty at the UN (zdnet.com)

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Akrites: The Latest Attempt to Protect Open-Source from AI Attacks Has Arrived (devops.com)

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IBM says it can fit nearly 100B transistors on a chip (zdnet.com)

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Linkerd 2.20, the Latest Release of the Cloud-Native Service Mesh, Arrives (cloudnativenow.com)

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Open Robotics Is Maturing (digitalcxo.com)

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For most of the world, open-source AI is the only way forward (techstrong.ai)

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Why AI tokens will send your enterprise cloud bill sky-high again (zdnet.com)

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Trump vs. Anthropic: The AI wars are heating up (computerworld.com)

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Linux users face a Microsoft Secure Boot headache – here's the painkiller (zdnet.com)

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Chainguard Agent Skills Matures (thenewstack.io)

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System76 boss reckons he can liberate the PC stack (theregister.com)

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Linux 7.1 is here to end the Intel 486 era – and do some serious legacy clean up (zdnet.com)

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WSL 3 gives developers a compelling reason to stick with Microsoft (zdnet.com)

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Stack Overflow Is Being Reborn as a Back-End Service for AI Agents (devops.com)

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Databricks Hands Delta Sharing to the Linux Foundation and Levels It Up (techstrong.ai)

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Trump's new AI order – hallucinations aren't just for LLMs (computerworld.com)

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CentOS History: How a Linux hobby project became the enterprise operating system (theregister.com)

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Microsoft continues its big Linux push at Build 2026 (zdnet.com)

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Red Hat hit by NPM supply‑chain attack: Here's how to be safe (zdnet.com)

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Overwhelmed by AI Cost Management? The Tokenomics Foundation Can Help (techstrong.ai)

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Can Chainguard Save Open-Source Software from Mythos? Can Anyone? (devops.com)

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Ubuntu 26.04 is the OS for the AI agentic era, says Canonical's Shuttleworth (zdnet.com)

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Open-source security mess: IBM and Red Hat bet $5B and 20k engineers can fix it (zdnet.com)

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Perplexity launches Bumblebee: Its new read-only developer laptop code scanner (zdnet.com)

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Euro-Office, EU open-source alternative to MSFT Office and Google Docs launches (zdnet.com)

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The AI tech job slaughter gets real (computerworld.com)

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Rust Will Save Linux from AI, Says Greg Kroah-Hartman (zdnet.com)

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AI eyes scanning for bugs create a worrisome Linux security trend (theregister.com)

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Linus Torvalds admits he has a 'love-hate relationship with AI' (zdnet.com)

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OpenSSF's CRob: 'The Runway Is Rapidly Running Out' on EU CRA Readiness (devops.com)

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Ubuntu Core 26 offers an immutable Linux you can trust through 2041 (zdnet.com)

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Valkey 9.1 trims memory 10% and pulls search into the core (thenewstack.io)

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Together, Edera and Minimus Claim They Can Protect Your Software from AI Hackers (cloudnativenow.com)

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Linux Foundation finds AI security readiness is now the top obstacle to adoption (thenewstack.io)

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Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0 (zdnet.com)

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Red Hat Delivers On-Premises Cost Telemetry to Meet Data Sovereignty Demands (cloudnativenow.com)

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The 4th Linux kernel flaw this month can lead to stolen SSH host keys (zdnet.com)

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The third major Linux kernel flaw in two weeks has been found – thanks to AI (zdnet.com)

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Red Hat Desktop vs. Fedora Hummingbird: Which AI Linux Desktop Is Right for You? (zdnet.com)

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Red Hat bets AgentOps can close the gap between AI experiments and production (thenewstack.io)

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Dirty Frag is a new Linux bug putting your PC at risk and there's no easy fix (zdnet.com)

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Trump jumps from 'anything goes' to 'strict regulation' AI policy (theregister.com)

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Why data center company IREN bought cloud-native power Mirantis (opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com)

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New Airbyte Agents: Cleaning Up Messy Data for AI Agents (opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com)

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10T downloads are crushing open-source repositories: Here's the fix (zdnet.com)

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Fix "Copy Fail" before your Linux system gets sick (opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com)

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Meta abandons open-source Llama for proprietary Muse Spark (thenewstack.io)

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Warp's gambles its AI tool going open source will help it take on closed rivals (thenewstack.io)

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When AI Goes Wrong: How PocketOS Lost All Its Data (devops.com)

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Microsoft open sources DOS 1.0 – and it's more than the code (zdnet.com)

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Canonical's approach to AI is refreshingly thoughtful-Microsoft should take note (zdnet.com)

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GitHub Copilot shifts to usage-based pricing June 1 – why that's no surprise (zdnet.com)

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AI's not going to kill open source code security (theregister.com)

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98% of IT leaders want digital sovereignty: SUSE is making it happen (zdnet.com)

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Built for a Hostile Internet: Canonical VP of Engineering on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (zdnet.com)

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Red Hat Digital Sovereignty Take: Red Hat Confirmed Sovereign Support (techstrong.it)

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Microsoft trims cloud desktop pricing, even as it boosts AI costs (computerworld.com)

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SUSE and Nvidia reveal a turnkey AI factory for sovereign enterprise workloads (thenewstack.io)

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'Handing out the blueprint to a bank vault' Why AI led Cal to drop open source (zdnet.com)

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You can try Linux 7.0 now on these distros – here's what's new (zdnet.com)

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The new rules for AI-assisted code in the Linux kernel: What devs need to know (zdnet.com)

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France is replacing 2.5M Windows desktops with Linux, here its new stack (zdnet.com)