Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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Senior Contributing Editor at ZDNet

Top business & technology journalist with a fondness for dogs, cats, music, theater & books. @[email protected] @sjvn.bsky.social He/Him/His.

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Articles

Java at 30: How a language designed for a failed gadget became a global powerhouse

1 week ago | zdnet.com | Steven Vaughan-Nichols

Bromberger Hoover Photography/Getty ImagesSome programming languages, such as Rust, Go, or TypeScript, are cool. Others, including Cobol and Java, are regarded as dull. However, while Java, which turned 30 on May 23, may not be the most exciting language, it remains one of the most important languages in use today.
The Linux 6.15 kernel arrives - and it's big a victory for Rust fans

1 week ago | zdnet.com | Steven Vaughan-Nichols

panida wijitpanya/Getty ImagesLinus Torvalds officially announced the stable release of the Linux kernel 6.15 on May 25, 2025. Its arrival was delayed for a few hours, Torvalds said, "because of a last-minute bug report resulting in one new feature being disabled at the eleventh hour," but Linux 6.15 is here and ready for you to download and tinker with. Also: Should you ever pay for Linux?
Red Hat Ansible and HashiCorp Terraform Will Be Coming Together

1 week ago | thenewstack.io | Steven Vaughan-Nichols

BOSTON — If you were expecting Red Hat and HashiCorp to make a news announcement at Red Hat Summit about how they’d integrate the champion DevOps program Ansible with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Terraform and secret manager Vault, you were in for a disappointment. But if you listened closely, you’d hear that plans are afoot to make it easier for the three programs to work in concert with each other. After all, it only makes sense.
Signal bloque les captures d'écran de Windows Recall

1 week ago | lemondeinformatique.fr | Steven Vaughan-Nichols

Malgré avoir revu sa copie plusieurs fois, l’application Recall de Microsoft basée sur l'IA continue à faire parler d’elle. En effet, l’éditeur de la messagerie sécurisée Signal a décidé de bloquer les captures d’écran de Recall dans son application dekstop. Pour mémoire, Recall est accessible sur les PC Copilot+ (comprenant un NPU performant) sous Windows 11 version 24H2 et prend continuellement des instantanées de l’écran pour créer une chronologie consultable par les utilisateurs.
The IT job market of 2030: Learning to work alongside AI

1 week ago | spiceworks.com | Steven Vaughan-Nichols

When I started in the IT job market, we were still looking for jobs in the classified sections of paper newspapers. That may sound like trying to build a computer with stone knives and bearskins, but it really wasn’t that long ago. Since those days in the 1980s, technology and its jobs’ rate of change have only accelerated. As fast as the onset of the commercial Internet and the PC transformed job hunting, nothing in recent years has sped up that change so much as the rise of AI.
AI model collapse is not what we paid for

1 week ago | theregister.com | Steven Vaughan-Nichols

Opinion I use AI a lot, but not to write stories. I use AI for search. When it comes to search, AI, especially Perplexity, is simply better than Google. Ordinary search has gone to the dogs. Maybe as Google goes gaga for AI, its search engine will get better again, but I doubt it. In just the last few months, I've noticed that AI-enabled search, too, has been getting crappier.
Signal to Windows Recall: Drop dead – Computerworld - Business And America

2 weeks ago | businessandamerica.com | Steven Vaughan-Nichols

I am so unimpressed. A few days ago, in the latest Patch Tuesday release, Microsoft revealed five — count ’em, five! — zero-day security holes in Windows alone. Do you expect me to trust Recall with a track record like this? Besides, even if I don’t enable the feature, what if our beloved federal government decides that for our protection, it would be better if Microsoft turned on Recall for some users?
Signal to Windows Recall: Drop dead

2 weeks ago | computerworld.com | Steven Vaughan-Nichols

Windows, as all but the most besotted Microsoft fans know, has historically been a security disaster. Seriously, what other program has a dedicated day each month to reveal its latest security holes? But now, Windows Recall, the AI-powered “feature” that continuously takes snapshots of your screen to create a searchable timeline of everything you do, has arrived for Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11 version 24H2 and newer.
Red Hat's AI Platform Now Has an AI Inference Server

2 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Steven Vaughan-Nichols

BOSTON — So you want to run a generative AI (GenAI) model, Or, make that models. Or, OK, let’s admit it, you want to run multiple models on the platforms you want when you want them. That’s not easy. To address this need, at Red Hat Summit 2025, Red Hat rolled out the Red Hat AI Interference (RHAI) server. RHAI is a high-performance, open source platform that works as the execution engine for AI workloads. Like the name suggests, RHAI is all about the inference.
AI vs. copyright

2 weeks ago | computerworld.com | Steven Vaughan-Nichols

Last year, I noted that OpenAI’s view on copyright is that it’s fine and dandy to copy, paste, and steal people’s work. OpenAI is far from alone. Anthropic, Google, and Meta all trot out the same tired old arguments: AI must be free to use copyrighted material under the legal doctrine of fair use so that they can deliver top-notch AI programs.