Developers talk a lot about “immutability.” Outside the technical world, it usually means something negative: unmoving, inflexible, and entrenched. However, in the technical field, these features ...

Agent decisions are influenced by timing, prior context, system state, and probabilistic reasoning. The same request issued ...

Ultimately, every problem in the constantly evolving IT software stack becomes a database problem, which is why there are 418 different databases and datastores in the DB Engines rankings and there ...

With cybersecurity threats on the rise and data breaches occurring almost every week, it’s natural to ask: What is the most secure operating system (OS)? Unfortunately, the answer isn’t ...

Google's Android mobile operating system is open source, which means anyone can, in theory, build their own mobile operating system based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Why, then, are ...

Although two potential security vulnerabilities affecting the Linux operating system have surfaced in the past three weeks, analysts and two users say the incidents won’t erode confidence in Linux as ...

Today Meta made what is likely to be an industry-altering announcement: it plans to open up the Quest operating system to third-party device makers. Asus, Lenovo, and Xbox have been tapped to create ...

The release-to-manufacture date for the seven flavors of Microsoft's latest server operating system means gold code should be just weeks away. Microsoft has set March 12 as the release-to-manufacture ...