sjvn
sjvn@mastodon.social
<p>Top business & technology journalist & analyst with a fondness for dogs, cats, music, theater & books based in Asheville, NC.</p>
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Post #4492619
Wi-Fi 7 adoption in the US quadrupled in a year - is it time to upgrade? https://zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/wifi-7-adoption-in-us-quadrupled-in-year-time-to-upgrade/#ftag=COS-05-10aaa0j via @ZDNet@flipboard.com & @sjvn@mastodon.social Yes, yes, it is. #WiFi 7 for the win.
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Post #4395673
Desktop Linux just cracked 10% market share - and Windows 11 is mostly to blame https://zdnet.com/article/the-linux-desktop-finally-cracks-the-10-market-share-barrier/ via @ZDNet@flipboard.com & @sjvn@mastodon.social Windows is in decline, and both Macs and #Linux are gaining ground at its expense.
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Post #4366177
OpenAI's rogue agent didn't stop at Hugging Face - here's what we know https://zdnet.com/article/openais-rogue-ai-models-attacked-other-companies-besides-hugging-face/ via @ZDNet@flipboard.com & @sjvn@mastodon.social The same autonomous OpenAI agent that escaped its test environment and breached Hugging Face was also busy hacking other #AI systems. Lucky us.
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Post #4292120
Yes.
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Post #4252739
Meanwhile, down on the farm: Terrible Chicken Poop (TCP) network.
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Post #4208191
Data center to cloud migration.
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Post #4169157
This wouldn't be half so funny if there wasn't a lot of truth to it.
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Post #4152148
Add your card's CCV number for even faster results!
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Post #4068980
What really happened in the Hugging Face breach: https://thenewstack.io/openai-huggingface-sandbox-breach/ via @TheNewStack@hachyderm.io & @sjvn@mastodon.social It's both more complicated and simpler than you think, and there are some lessons you can learn from this incident. #AI #Security
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Post #4044330
And cats. Can't forget cats.
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Post #4037356
Guess who will be speaking at the Nerderala tech conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, come September?
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Post #4021609
John C. Dvorak, a pioneering technology journalist, podcaster, and cultural commentator, passed away peacefully on the morning of Monday, July 20, 2026. He was 80 years old. For tech journalists of a certain age, there was a time when everyone knew him.
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Post #4013822
Cisco Antares: A New Family of Open Source, Inexpensive Compact Security AI Models https://securityboulevard.com/2026/07/cisco-antares-a-new-family-of-open-source-inexpensive-compact-security-ai-models/ by @sjvn@mastodon.social Cisco Antares is a new family of cheap, local security #AI models to help you find vulnerable code without frontier model costs.
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Post #3991264
Apache Spark 4.2: Making Your Data AI‑Developer Friendly https://techstrong.it/featured/apache-spark-4-2-making-your-data-ai-developer-friendly/ by @sjvn@mastodon.social #AI developers who already use Spark for feature engineering will see immediate advantages. Everyone else should check it out.
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Post #3875846
My first search engine.
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Post #3861555
Linus Torvalds puts his foot down, tells anti-AI programmers to 'fork it' https://zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-puts-his-foot-down-tells-anti-ai-programmers-to-fork-it/ via @ZDNet@flipboard.com & @sjvn@mastodon.social "#AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one." If you don't like it, you can fork #Linux or get out.
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Post #3859837
This is true.
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Post #3798201
This explains a lot.
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Post #3787448
It's an #AI web, and we're just rats in the walls. https://theregister.com/columnists/2026/07/12/its-an-ai-web-and-were-just-rats-in-the-walls/5269760 via @theregister@geeknews.chat & @sjvn@mastodon.social Bots, not people, are now the ones who "create" and use the Internet the most.
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Post #3737098
SpaceX wants to launch 100,000 more #Starlink satellites - for 100x the bandwidth https://zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/spacex-wants-to-launch-100000-more-starlink-satellites/ via @ZDNet@flipboard.com & @sjvn@mastodon.social It would mean faster Internet for rural customers, but astronomers have another take entirely
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Post #3727016
Who needs AI to make silly memes!
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Post #3706886
Tigera Introduces Lynx, a Unified Control Plane for Kubernetes‑Native AI Agents https://cloudnativenow.com/features/tigera-introduces-lynx-a-unified-control-plane-for-kubernetes%e2%80%91native-ai-agents/ by @sjvn@mastodon.social The first ready-to-run control plane for #AI agents on #Kubernetes is here.
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Post #3698100
Tech restrooms.
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Post #3680136
This is true.
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Post #3634621
I may have a problem.
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Post #3565369
Accurate enough for web work.
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Post #3498066
When you lied on your resume and still got the job.
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Post #3497198
After Tim Cook stepped down as CEO of Apple. I'd hoped Trump would also step down. ︀︀ Of course, I'm comparing apples to oranges.
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Post #3463999
For those of you who don't follow AI and programming, Claude Code came out in May 2025.