This article provides a brief overview of the new cryptographic API for the Linux kernel. It is aimed at anyone with a technical interest in Linux, such as system administrators, and other curious ...

A year ago, Internet Telephony was a curiosity, and many people thought it would never work for real phone calls. Now, with services like Net2Phone, Deltathree.com and DialPad providing free or ...

Back in the early 1990s, I worked in a large telecoms research lab, as part of the Advanced Local Loop group. Our problem domain was the “last mile”—getting services to peoples’ homes. One of my ...

Prominent Linux kernel developers gathered to share insights on kernel development's current state and future at a recent roundtable discussion during the Open Source Summit Europe in Vienna. The ...

Large language models (LLMs) by themselves are less than meets the eye; the moniker “stochastic parrots” isn’t wrong. Connect LLMs to specific data for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and you get ...