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OpenStack Hibiscus Adds Confidential Computing and AI-Ready Infrastructure to its bag of cloud tricks

Oct 2, 2026

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OpenStack Hibiscus Adds Confidential Computing and AI-Ready Infrastructure to its bag of cloud tricks

The oldest open-source cloud, OpenStack, is ready for the age of AI with additions like confidential computing, improved DNS, and more AI-friendly infrastructure.

Steven Vaughan-Nichols
Steven Vaughan-Nichols
The Netherlands is preparing to dump Windows and Office for its own homebrew Linux

Sep 29, 2026

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2 min read

The Netherlands is preparing to dump Windows and Office for its own homebrew Linux

Another European country has had enough of US-Trump-dominated technology companies and is switching to Linux and open-source software.

Steven Vaughan-Nichols
Steven Vaughan-Nichols
Voxiferi introduces VoxWall as an ‘AI ingress firewall’ for bad data

Sep 22, 2026

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3 min read

Voxiferi introduces VoxWall as an ‘AI ingress firewall’ for bad data

Open-source veteran Dick Morrell’s Voxiferi Labs has open-sourced VoxWall, a policy-driven gateway intended to stop bad data before it reaches AI training, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, inference, or workloads.

Steven Vaughan-Nichols
Steven Vaughan-Nichols

Richard "Dick" Morrell, Founder of Voxiferi Labs

Voxiferi wants to stop bad AI data at the door

Sep 16, 2026

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9 min read

Voxiferi wants to stop bad AI data at the door

Voxiferi Labs has a straightforward answer to a growing AI security problem: Don’t let untrusted, malformed, or suspicious data into the system in the first place.

Steven Vaughan-Nichols
Steven Vaughan-Nichols
Kata Containers 4.0 is less a new feature release than a platform reset to Rust

Jul 24, 2026

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1 min read

Kata Containers 4.0 is less a new feature release than a platform reset to Rust

Once a poster-child for the Go programming language, Kata Containers is now written in Rust.

Steven Vaughan-Nichols
Steven Vaughan-Nichols
Agent Name Service: The universal AI Agents identity system

Jul 7, 2026

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4 min read

Agent Name Service: The universal AI Agents identity system

The Linux Foundation is moving to standardize AI agents through the Agent Name Service (ANS) and the related DNS-AID proposal.

Steven Vaughan-Nichols
Steven Vaughan-Nichols
Here's why data center company IREN bought cloud-native power Mirantis

May 7, 2026

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2 min read

Here's why data center company IREN bought cloud-native power Mirantis

In a word: AI.

Steven Vaughan-Nichols
Steven Vaughan-Nichols
New Airbyte Agents: Cleaning up messy data for AI Agents

May 6, 2026

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3 min read

New Airbyte Agents: Cleaning up messy data for AI Agents

According to Airbyte, AI agents are failing in the real world because of sloppy data. Their new Airbyte Agents can straighten out the data.

Steven Vaughan-Nichols
Steven Vaughan-Nichols
Fix "Copy Fail" before your Linux system gets sick

May 5, 2026

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4 min read

Fix "Copy Fail" before your Linux system gets sick

The newly disclosed Linux kernel vulnerability dubbed “Copy Fail” allows any local user to become root on most mainstream Linux systems. Yow! But the fix is in, so patch it already!

Steven Vaughan-Nichols
Steven Vaughan-Nichols
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