@sjvn

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Top business & technology journalist & analyst with a fondness for dogs, cats, music, theater & books based in Asheville, NC.

I've had the good fortune to connect a bunch with Kris Beevers over the last 10+ years (first NS1, an IBM Company, now NetBox Labs). It's just astounding to me to see an open-source project go from being -this is how we now what we have in our network - to being a foundational element of understanding and the lifecycle of the biggest network infrastructure deployments

https://www.networkworld.com/article/4184563/netbox-at-10-network-inventory-tool-now-a-full-infrastructure-intelligence-platform.html

NetBox at 10: Network inventory tool now a full infrastructure intelligence platform

NetBox Labs designed its newly launched platform to span the full infrastructure lifecycle, from initial procurement through decommission.

Network World
Just published on FOSS Force: Nextcloud Marks 10 Years With Hub 26 Spring, Euro‑Office, and Expanded AI https://fossforce.com/2026/06/nextcloud-marks-10-years-with-hub-26-spring-euro-office-and-expanded-ai/
There is a solid chance one or more people die at this event either from heatstroke, lightning strikes, or heart failure, and if there is a god, we all know the person who’ll achieve the trifecta

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z6rujpf4u56jfie7aqic2nfg/post/3mnzqyyrumk2t
That's exactly how I treat my chatbots, so it makes sense to treat your agents the same: Treat your AI agents like eager but misguided human interns - before you lose control https://www.zdnet.com/article/treat-your-ai-agents-like-interns-before-you-lose-control/
Treat your AI agents like eager but misguided human interns - before you lose control

Think twice about what permissions you are providing your AI agents and what actions they can take on your behalf.

ZDNET
And that's how Skynet began.
Trump Sets New World Record By Winning War With Iran 27 Times In One Year

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump set a new world record this week by winning the same war with Iran for the 27th time this year, shattering the previous record of one.

The Babylon Bee
Cohere open-sourced a coding agent that claims to beat open-source models 4x its size — and runs on one GPU
https://venturebeat.com/technology/cohere-open-sources-a-coding-agent-that-runs-on-a-single-h100
If you're wondering about the upcoming Secure Boot certificate expiration and how it relates to Fedora, Marta has posted about that here: https://fedoramagazine.org/expiration-of-microsoft-secure-boot-keys/
What you need to know about the Microsoft Secure Boot certificate expiration: Don’t Panic! - Fedora Magazine

UEFI Secure Boot keys will expire in June 2026 which means Microsoft can no longer sign with them. Machines will continue to boot as long as the current public keys are not removed from db or revoked by dbx. Fedora Rawhide contains a dual-signed first stage boot loader.

Fedora Magazine

Databricks Hands Delta Sharing to the Linux Foundation and Levels It Up https://techstrong.ai/articles/databricks-hands-delta-sharing-to-the-linux-foundation-and-levels-it-up/ via @techstronggroup & @sjvn

OpenSharing is the new open, vendor‑neutral plumbing for exchanging not just data, but #AI models and “agent skills” across platforms and clouds.

Databricks Hands Delta Sharing to the Linux Foundation and Levels It Up

OpenSharing is the open, vendor‑neutral plumbing for exchanging not just data, but AI models and “agent skills” across platforms and clouds. 

Techstrong.ai

Euro-Office 1.0 arrives to open-source infighting: 'Compatibility is not sovereignty' https://www.zdnet.com/article/euro-office-is-here-libreoffice-supporters-arent-happy/ via @ZDNet & @sjvn

I get so tired of #opensource organizations fussing with each other when they have a minute fraction of a market that proprietary companies own.

Euro-Office 1.0 arrives to open-source infighting: 'Compatibility is not sovereignty'

The new cloud-based, open-source alternative to Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace is here, as LibreOffice backers lambast its reliance on Microsoft document formats.

ZDNET