/>Amazon is attempting to depose President Donald Trump and others over the US government's award the $10-billion dollar JEDI cloud to Microsoft Azure over AWS.When the US Department of Defense awarded contract, it wasn't if would sue to overturn the massive government contract, it was when. A few weeks later, AWS sued to overturn the award. Now, AWS has upped the ante. The company is deposing President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Mark Esperm, former Defense Secretary James Mattis, and four others.  There's nothing surprising about AWS appealing the decision. and . So far, so...…/>Amazon is attempting to depose President Donald Trump and others over the US government's award the $10-billion dollar JEDI cloud to Microsoft Azure over AWS.When the US Department of Defense awarded contract, it wasn't if would sue to overturn the massive government contract, it was when. A few weeks later, AWS sued to overturn the award. Now, AWS has upped the ante. The company is deposing President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Mark Esperm, former Defense Secretary James Mattis, and four others.  There's nothing surprising about AWS appealing the decision. and . So far, so...WW…

/>People still think of open-source software as general programs for general problems. And, it is, but it's also become vital for vertical markets and companies as well.Eric S. Raymond, one of open-source's founders, said in his seminal work, ,  "Every good work of [open-source] software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch." There's a lot of truth to that. Vital programs such as the Apache web server, MySQL, and Linux began that way and numerous smaller programs did too. But it's not likely many people had a personal itch to create giant vertical programs such as...…/>People still think of open-source software as general programs for general problems. And, it is, but it's also become vital for vertical markets and companies as well.Eric S. Raymond, one of open-source's founders, said in his seminal work, ,  "Every good work of [open-source] software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch." There's a lot of truth to that. Vital programs such as the Apache web server, MySQL, and Linux began that way and numerous smaller programs did too. But it's not likely many people had a personal itch to create giant vertical programs such as...WW…

/>Decades ago, people predicted that IBM and its mainframes would soon be history. But then IBM and Red Hat brought Linux to the mainframe and things would never be the same again.Let's take the way-back machine to March 1991. Back then Stewart Alsop, venture capitalist and one-time editor-in-chief of , predicted "the on March 15, 1996." In IBM's last quarter, , a gain of 6% over the last quarter. Oh well, you can't get them all right.  So, what happened? Linux happened. At the time, this seemed a very unlikely marriage of software and hardware. Linux was the open-source software...…/>Decades ago, people predicted that IBM and its mainframes would soon be history. But then IBM and Red Hat brought Linux to the mainframe and things would never be the same again.Let's take the way-back machine to March 1991. Back then Stewart Alsop, venture capitalist and one-time editor-in-chief of , predicted "the on March 15, 1996." In IBM's last quarter, , a gain of 6% over the last quarter. Oh well, you can't get them all right.  So, what happened? Linux happened. At the time, this seemed a very unlikely marriage of software and hardware. Linux was the open-source software...WW…

/>It was just another Friday, until the internet stopped working for tens of millions of people.It was another end of the workweek; what could possibly go wrong? Sure, in the week and accounts, but surely nothing else could go awry? Right? Wrong. Bad things come in threes. Starting on Friday afternoon, , the major content delivery network (CDN) and Domain Name System (DNS) service, had a major DNS failure, and tens of millions users found their internet services failing. Whoops. At the time, there was concern that the US internet itself was under attack. The real problem was much more...…/>It was just another Friday, until the internet stopped working for tens of millions of people.It was another end of the workweek; what could possibly go wrong? Sure, in the week and accounts, but surely nothing else could go awry? Right? Wrong. Bad things come in threes. Starting on Friday afternoon, , the major content delivery network (CDN) and Domain Name System (DNS) service, had a major DNS failure, and tens of millions users found their internet services failing. Whoops. At the time, there was concern that the US internet itself was under attack. The real problem was much more...WW…

/>Google and Oracle's Supreme Court case, which will determine billions of dollars of revenue and software programming's future, has been delayed. And it may finally be decided on issues having nothing to with API copyrights.Ten years ago, , desperate to monetize its , sued to squeeze profits out of its use of Java APIs in Android. Oracle won its point -- that application programming interfaces (APIs) were subject to copyright. More recently, Google got the . But the , has been yet again delayed, but not because of the . University of South Carolina Intellectual property (IP) law...…/>Google and Oracle's Supreme Court case, which will determine billions of dollars of revenue and software programming's future, has been delayed. And it may finally be decided on issues having nothing to with API copyrights.Ten years ago, , desperate to monetize its , sued to squeeze profits out of its use of Java APIs in Android. Oracle won its point -- that application programming interfaces (APIs) were subject to copyright. More recently, Google got the . But the , has been yet again delayed, but not because of the . University of South Carolina Intellectual property (IP) law...WW…

/>Want a truly secure operating system kernel? The Linux Foundation is partnering with Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, to roll out the seL4 microkernel.First thing's first: Yes, the is working with  -- the digital specialist arm for Australia's national science agency,  -- to push forward the new security-first operating system kernel . But seL4 is not related to Linux.  However, SeL4 can be used, in theory, as a foundation for Linux and other Unix related operating systems. For example, it was briefly considered for use in Richard M. Stallman's still-born...…/>Want a truly secure operating system kernel? The Linux Foundation is partnering with Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, to roll out the seL4 microkernel.First thing's first: Yes, the is working with  -- the digital specialist arm for Australia's national science agency,  -- to push forward the new security-first operating system kernel . But seL4 is not related to Linux.  However, SeL4 can be used, in theory, as a foundation for Linux and other Unix related operating systems. For example, it was briefly considered for use in Richard M. Stallman's still-born...WW…

/>Some researchers tried to slip bad patches into the Linux kernel as a "test." When they kept trying, Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux kernel maintainer for the stable branch, put an end to their efforts.Thanks to the , have become an important issue. Naturally enough, there's a lot of research being done into these attacks. Two graduate students at the University of Minnesota working on a paper entitled, "" tried to put the vulnerability into the Linux kernel. This kind of is commonplace… when the project includes people who know what's going on beforehand. That wasn't the case here. When...…/>Some researchers tried to slip bad patches into the Linux kernel as a "test." When they kept trying, Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux kernel maintainer for the stable branch, put an end to their efforts.Thanks to the , have become an important issue. Naturally enough, there's a lot of research being done into these attacks. Two graduate students at the University of Minnesota working on a paper entitled, "" tried to put the vulnerability into the Linux kernel. This kind of is commonplace… when the project includes people who know what's going on beforehand. That wasn't the case here. When...WW…

/>Today, the fastest internet you can get at your home or small business is a gigabit per second (Gbps). Tomorrow, thanks to Comcast and Broadcom, you'll be able to get 10Gbps.I just upgraded my internet to 1Gbps this week using a cable modem. Believe it or not, I could use more. I do a lot with , and I run virtual machines (VM) off clouds and . I'm not alone. With so many of us working from home now, even a 1Gbps feels confining. Now, thanks to and , we're seeing the first tests of system-on-chip (SoC) devices.  Comcast's tests, done between Philadelphia and Denver, show that FDX...…/>Today, the fastest internet you can get at your home or small business is a gigabit per second (Gbps). Tomorrow, thanks to Comcast and Broadcom, you'll be able to get 10Gbps.I just upgraded my internet to 1Gbps this week using a cable modem. Believe it or not, I could use more. I do a lot with , and I run virtual machines (VM) off clouds and . I'm not alone. With so many of us working from home now, even a 1Gbps feels confining. Now, thanks to and , we're seeing the first tests of system-on-chip (SoC) devices.  Comcast's tests, done between Philadelphia and Denver, show that FDX...WW…

/>Take a wild guess.I literally wrote the . Since then I've been keeping a close eye on web browsers, as our only choice was the WEB shell program. We've come a long way, but web browsers are still the primary way we connect with the endless fields of data, stories, and video that makes up the modern web. And, today, Google's Chrome is the way most of us work and play on the web.It's been really hard to get hard data on which were really the most popular web browsers. True, many companies claimed to have good information, such as and , but their . The US federal government's , however,...…/>Take a wild guess.I literally wrote the . Since then I've been keeping a close eye on web browsers, as our only choice was the WEB shell program. We've come a long way, but web browsers are still the primary way we connect with the endless fields of data, stories, and video that makes up the modern web. And, today, Google's Chrome is the way most of us work and play on the web.It's been really hard to get hard data on which were really the most popular web browsers. True, many companies claimed to have good information, such as and , but their . The US federal government's , however,...WW…

/> 'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing.When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or service, we may earn affiliate commissions. This helps support our work, but does not affect...…/> 'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing.When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or service, we may earn affiliate commissions. This helps support our work, but does not affect...WW…