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Top business & technology journalist with a fondness for dogs, cats, music, theater & books.

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Christine Hall @brideoflinux.bsky.social · 13h
Just published on FOSS Force: The EU Is About to Make Linux’s Vulnerability Management Problem Harder to Ignore fossforce.com/2026/10/the-...
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 12h
For your amusement, here's my interview from the NERDERA conference in Buenos Aires, where I talk about my personal technology history, #Linux and open source, and, of course, #AI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e75K...
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Interview with SJVN - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
YouTube video by Nerdearla
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ah...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Typical pattern from ICE and police of claiming to be the true victim after they attack someone newrepublic.com/post/216004/...
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Man Shot by ICE Agent Is Charged With Assault
Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez was shot by an ICE agent. Now the Justice Department is charging Pérez.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You know who hallucinates more than AI does? This guy. arstechnica.com/health/2026/...?
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RFK Jr. thinks AI will free us from the "tyranny" of medical facts, expertise
AI is far from a perfect resource. But it seems to hallucinate less than Kennedy.
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Christine Hall @brideoflinux.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just published on FOSS Force: The FSF’s Warning on AI Kill Switches fossforce.com/2026/09/the-...
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.techtarget.com/cybersecurit... Though the title of CISO is common, the specific responsibilities of CISOs across verticals are not. Had a tonne of fun putting this one together getting different insights across industries.
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The CISO role isn't universal: 5 industry perspectives | TechTarget
Same title, different responsibilities, risks and challenges. Explore how the CISO role varies dramatically across industries.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
AI workloads are driving new hardware and storage requirements in OpenStack, while AI-assisted security research is driving up the number of vulnerability reports. Those are two of the prevailing themes in OpenStack 2026.2, code-named Hibiscus www.networkworld.com/article/4228...
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OpenStack Hibiscus adds DNS security features and confidential computing to the open-source cloud platform
AI workloads are driving new hardware and storage requirements in OpenStack, while AI-assisted security research is driving up the number of vulnerability reports. Those are two of the prevailing them...
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ah-ha! That's why the Borg kept saying they wanted to add our biological and technological distinctiveness to their own. It was our cable-management skills!
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Netherlands is preparing to dump Windows and Office for its own homebrew Linux opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/the-nether... by @sjvn.bsky.social Digital Sovereignty bitches! Another EU country has had enough of US-Trump-dominated tech companies and is switching to #Linux and open-source.
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The Netherlands is preparing to dump Windows and Office for its own homebrew Linux
Another European company has had enough of USTrump-dominated technology companies and is switching to Linux and open-source software.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Two years after Helene came and ruined much of Asheville, we're on our way back. But it's not as rosy as the WSJ makes it out to be. #Asheville runs on tourism, and that's still lagging. www.wsj.com/business/how...
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How Asheville’s Artists and Shopkeepers Rebuilt Their City
Two years after Hurricane Helene, tourists and business are back—largely thanks to the persistence of local residents and merchants.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trust us!
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Musk says space will soon hold all compute. Google is still finding out if chips can work there. thenewstack.io/google-sunca... via @thenewstack.io & @sjvn.bsky.social SpaceX & Nvidia plan to put an #AI system in orbit in 2027. Google’s modest plan is to see if AI chips can work in space at all.
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Elon Musk says space will soon hold nearly all compute. Google is still finding out if its chips can work there.
SpaceX and Nvidia want full AI racks in orbit by 2027. Google's first Suncatcher satellite asks a humbler question: Will TPUs even survive space?
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money theregister.com/columnists/2... via @theregister.com & @sjvn.bsky.social The Big #AI business model is based on intellectual property theft and illegally crushing competition.
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Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money
The more we learn about how AI does business, the more unfair it looks
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Jason Perlow @jperlow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Native Wayland GLES3 implementation. Black Hole Sun, won’t you come drive.google.com/file/d/1Rh3Z... @brideoflinux.bsky.social @sjvn.bsky.social @davidgewirtz.com
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Christine Hall @brideoflinux.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just published on FOSS Force: AlmaLinux’s New Beefed-Up, High-Performance Hardware and Software Certification fossforce.com/2026/09/alma...
AlmaLinux booth at the All Things Open 2023 conference.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I can hear David Bowie singing it.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
OpenAI Keeps Hacking and Hacking and… securityboulevard.com/2026/09/open... by @sjvn.bsky.social OpenAI says it is reviewing when agents took “actions we did not intend,” after it hacked an Australian government health-statistics site and others. That’s big of them.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New Selector Foundry runtime environment lets network operations teams build, test, version, and govern their own AI agents inside the company's NetOps platform. www.networkworld.com/article/4225...
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Selector brings Git-based workflows and incident replay to network AI agents
New Selector Foundry runtime environment lets network operations teams build, test, version, and govern their own AI agents inside the company's NetOps platform.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
OK, so I'm definitely not a moth. I'm glad we've got that cleared up.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Voxiferi introduces VoxWall as an ‘AI ingress firewall’ for bad data opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/new-voxife... by @sjvn.bsky.social #Opensource vet Dick Morrell’s Voxiferi Labs VoxWall, a policy-driven gateway that stops bad data before it reaches #AI training, RAG, or inference.
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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, o...
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Open-Weight AI Models Seize Token Lead, but Proprietary Systems Still Make the Money techstrong.ai/articles/ope... via @techstronggroup.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social Vercel data shows open-weight models processing 56% of production #AI Gateway tokens in August, but only 14% of spending.
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Open-Weight AI Models Seize Token Lead, but Proprietary Systems Still Make the Money
Vercel data shows downloadable-weight models processing 56% of production AI Gateway tokens in August, while capturing only 14% of spending.
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Christine Hall @brideoflinux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just published on FOSS Force: Codenotary Expands Its No-Strings-Attached Linux Security Deal fossforce.com/2026/09/code...
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Voxiferi introduces VoxWall as an ‘AI ingress firewall’ for bad data opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/new-voxife... by @sjvn.bsky.social Open-source vet Dick Morrell’s Voxiferi Labs has open-sourced VoxWall, a policy-driven gateway intended to stop bad data before it reaches #AI training or RAG.
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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, o...
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Open-Weight AI Models Seize Token Lead, but Proprietary Systems Still Make the Money techstrong.ai/articles/ope... via @techstronggroup.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social Vercel shows open-weight models processing 56% of production #AI Gateway tokens in August, but only 14% of estimated spending.
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Open-Weight AI Models Seize Token Lead, but Proprietary Systems Still Make the Money
Vercel data shows downloadable-weight models processing 56% of production AI Gateway tokens in August, while capturing only 14% of spending.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I love this Richard Shindell song. This wonderful performance is by Cry, Cry, Cry, with Dar Williams on lead vocals. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZIu...
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The Ballad Of Mary Magdalen
YouTube video by Cry Cry Cry - Topic
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Christine Hall @brideoflinux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just published on FOSS Force: Nerdearla 2026 Is Big, Free, and Streaming From Buenos Aires fossforce.com/2026/09/nerd...
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This would be a lot funnier if it weren't completely true.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Lasso: AI Watermarks Change How Agents Act techstrong.ai/features/las... via @techstronggroup.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social Lasso found that watermarking changes how #AI agents choose tools and weakens how they deal with malicious requests. So much for a simple fix to show if AI wrote something.
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Lasso: AI Watermarks Change How Agents Act
New Lasso Security research finds AI watermarking can alter agent tool calls, refusal behavior and security outcomes in unexpected ways.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
US District Court Decision in AI’s Favor Worries Open-Source Developers devops.com/us-district-... by @sjvn.bsky.social A court handed Big AI an important win in the first major ruling over how #AI coding tools can use #opensource code. Still, it may not make much difference.
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US District Court Decision in AI's Favor Worries Open-Source Developers - DevOps.com
A court handed GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI a win in the first major appellate ruling over how AI coding tools can use open-source code.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Two Claudes for One! techstrong.ai/articles/two... by @sjvn.bsky.social Anthropic #AI is dumping one of its more confusing distinctions in its Claude product lineup: the difference between chatting with Claude and asking it to do work.
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Two Claudes for One!
Anthropic is dumping one of its more confusing distinctions in its Claude product lineup: the difference between chatting with Claude.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Voxiferi wants to stop bad AI data at the door opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/voxiferi-w... by @sjvn 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.
opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com
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.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Open weights are not open source: Why AI's favorite label is under dispute theregister.com/columnists/2... via @theregister.com & @sjvn.bsky.social Downloading a model is increasingly easy. Understanding how it was made, or changing a system at its root, is another matter.
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Are we human?
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
AWS Open-Sources Pizza Bot, an Inbox for Background AI Agents techstrong.ai/articles/aws... via @techstronggroup.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social AWS has open-sourced Pizza Bot, an app that lets AI agents work in the background & sends completed jobs or approval requests to in an email-style inbox.
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AWS Open-Sources Pizza Bot, an Inbox for Background AI Agents
AWS has open-sourced Pizza Bot, a self-hosted application that lets AI agents work in the background and surface completed tasks.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Why AI companies are really pumping the brakes on their models computerworld.com/article/4223... via @computerworld.com & @sjvn.bsky.social #AI's big dogs say it's because frontier AI is advancing faster than they can secure it. True, but safety isn't their main motivation. Follow the cash.
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Why AI companies are really pumping the brakes on their models
They say it's because frontier AI development is advancing faster than their ability to test, monitor, govern, and contain it. But is it really? Safety is far from their main motivation.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You do Not chase my kitten!
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
10 years ago I first wrote about Confidential Computing - a way to have hardware attestation to verify integrity and privacy. NOw Cohere is bringing the concept to AI in a form of confidential inference that is badly needed ... venturebeat.com/data/coheres...
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Cohere's Model Vault now encrypts AI inference so even Cohere cannot see enterprise customers' data
Cohere plans on making the full serving stack used in Model Vault open source so that independent auditors will be able to validate that it doesn't log, export, or leak data.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What has America come to? Just another corrupt country with the hogs at the top slurping down all the money they can. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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MAGA Is Making the World Safe for Corruption
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
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🎃 🧙🏻‍♀️Yell 👻 Growler💀🎃 @yaelwrites.com · 16/09/2026
For the @theverge.com, I dug into a dating scam network that an @anthropic.com spoke about @sleuthcon.bsky.social. It was later described in Anthropic's extremely thorough threat intel report. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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The sexy AI-powered dating app scams are here
Thousands of people were catfished by scammers supercharged with AI.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yes, I listen to a lot of music that's not that popular, but I still have room in my heart for good old-fashioned pop-rock from 1967 by the Monkees. Enjoy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W06...
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The Monkees - Daydream Believer (1967) (HD)
YouTube video by MadFranko008
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
No, no, not a Linux plumber, a plumbing plumber, you know, with wrenches and pipes,
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Voxiferi wants to stop bad AI data at the door opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/voxiferi-w... by @sjvn.bsky.social 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.
opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com
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.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm sorry to hear this. I loved Pilgrim at Tinker Creek when it first came out. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...
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Annie Dillard, Meditative Author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ Dies at 81 (Gift Article)
Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.
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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
AI’s Real Impact in Telecom: Five Takeaways As the panelists agreed, progress is real but uneven, and the biggest opportunities may not look like what many expect. www.windriver.com/blog/AIs-Rea...
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AI’s Real Impact in Telecom: Five Takeaways
The panelists repeatedly returned to questions of trust, operational risk, sovereignty, edge deployment, and realistic monetization — all of which are issues dominating telecom strategy discussions to...
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
To dream the impossible dream.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Open weights are not #opensource: Why #AI 's favorite label is under dispute www.theregister.com/columnists/2... via @theregister.com & @sjvn.bsky.social Downloading a model is increasingly easy. Understanding how it was made, or changing a system at its root, is another matter.
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Open weights are not open source: Why AI's favorite label is under dispute
Downloading a model is increasingly easy. Understanding how it was made, or changing a system at its root, is another matter
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Henry, #cat, king of the yard.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
AWS Open-Sources Pizza Bot, an Inbox for Background AI Agents techstrong.ai/articles/aws... via @techstronggroup.bsky.social & @sjvn AWS has open-sourced Pizza Bot, a self-hosted app that lets AI agents work in the background & sends completed jobs or requests for approval in an email-style inbox.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So, you want an #AI kill switch? Here you go!
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