Phillip de Wet
Phillip de Wet started in journalism as an honest B2B IT-sector reporter before straying into business, politics, and international affairs. He is currently in recovery, studying AI while writing about everything from hardware to infosec policy.
OurSQL is so vendor-neutral that it does not include MySQL's owner, but its board features folks from AliSQL.
Two new Apache 2.0 projects achieve 97% better hardware efficiency for bursty bursty agentic workloads. Want to get involved?
Control systems – and the entire software supply chain – needs work too, but even air-gapping isn't sufficient mitigation, Congress told.
Vercel's new Zero is a strictly experimental effort to make machine interpretability a first-class systems concern, and it shows some momentum.
Kafka lag, uneven tenants, Postgres hotspots and real-time AI consistency: Salesforce says scaling conversational AI infrastructure turned into a distributed systems problem.
Crypto exchange insists "we had an appropriate RF to survive a zone outage" as an AWS incident knocks it down, again.
With increasing NPU support, Google argues it has the platform that makes it trivial to roll your own agents for Android, iOS and even Raspberry Pi, via what used to be TensorFlow Lite.
Six years after an Open Source Initiative certification issue got the ball rolling, the custom PHP Licence and Zend Engine Licence are no more.
The US may want at least a first peek at any powerful model before release.