article thumbnail

Radar Trends to Watch: May 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JRsdr is an AI product that promises to automate all your corporate social media. sotrace is a new tool for Linux developers that shows all the libraries your programs are linked to. It is distinct from Valkey , the fork launched by the Linux Foundation. This feature is currently available only in the Developer stream.

article thumbnail

Radar Trends to Watch: January 2023

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Mastodon isn’t new, and it doesn’t yet challenge the major social media players. But it’s real, it’s scaling, and its federated model presents a different way of thinking about social media, services, and (indeed) Web3. ChatGPT’s training set included a lot of information about Linux, so you can tell it to act like a Linux terminal.

Trends 102
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Radar trends to watch: January 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

And while I didn’t list them, the other big trend has been all the lawyers lining up to take shots at Google, Facebook, et al. Google’s FuschiaOS, a possible replacement for the Android’s Linux kernel, is now “ open for contributions.” The end of CentOS Linux ? CentOS may live on independently as Rocky Linux. Who’s next?

Trends 101
article thumbnail

Radar Trends to Watch: February 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Bun is an open source JavaScript shell that can run on Linux, MacOS, and Windows. Generative AI will make social engineering and phishing more convincing; it will enable inexperienced actors to create much more dangerous attacks. A variant of the Mirai malware is attacking Linux systems. JavaScript as a shell language?

article thumbnail

Radar Trends to Watch: June 2023

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Chirper is a social network for AI. It supports iPhones, Windows, Linux, MacOS, and web browsers. It’s not just Linux. The Prossimo project is improving memory safety on the Internet by rewriting important Unix/Linux infrastructure components using Rust. It had to happen. No humans allowed. Though you can observe.

article thumbnail

Radar trends to watch: October 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The unwilling star of this month’s trends is clearly Facebook. China issues a Request for Comments on their proposed social media regulations. Xiaomi also appears to be working on smart glasses, and Linux is getting into the act with a work-oriented headset called Simula One. Social Media. Quantum Computing.

Trends 124
article thumbnail

Radar trends to watch: February 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

A government (probably North Korea) is targeting security researchers in the US and elsewhere, using various forms of social engineering (including asking researchers to collaborate on a research project) and malware. Very few companies take documentation seriously; could this be the start of a trend? Security and Privacy.

Trends 91