Unpacking Software

Microsoft offered to extend the life of Windows 10 for home users, for that sweet, sweet money. $30 to be exact. But at least the Windows 11 haters have somewhere they can stay. For a while. VMware decided to ditch its proprietary Workstation virtualization tech and piggyback on good ole KVM. And happy birthday to both Notepad++ and LetsEncrypt, who turned 21 and 10 respectively. The tech world wo...

WordPress continues to burn in a dumpster of their own making as WP Engines' lawsuit moves forward. Unfortunately, it's not just two corporate toddlers squabbling in an isolated sandpit. It has implications for the rest of the WordPress ecosystem and beyond into open-source. With open-source maintainers already overworked and going gray, the rush of new blood to pick up when the old guard leaves i...

Windows Recall makes a return in October. If you don't want it then, tough, because you can't remove it! Toyota isn't having a good time as more data leaks, this time from a third party. But this time car GPS data is grabbed too. And finally, some good news in the open-source world, Mono moves under the stewardship of the Wine project. Join Chocolatey Software's Gary Ewan Park, Paul Broadwith and...

Meta and X are using your data again for their own ends. The global presence of Microsoft is being seen as a potential disadvantage in light of the CrowdStrike debacle, while it points to the EU as the reason it can't lock down the kernel. And CrowdStrike accepts an award at Black Hat but loses its sense of humour for ClownStrike. Join Chocolatey Software's Gary Ewan Park, Paul Broadwith and Steph...

Firefox gets into hot water with its latest 'prototype' that collects data without consent. Windows 11 gets more ads and helpfully uploads your data to OneDrive and Polyfill. What is there to say about that? So much, it turns out.  Join Chocolatey Software's James Ruskin, Josh King and Paul Broadwith as we go through the latest tech and security news of the last month. Add to your calendar and fin...

Find out what the latest is in the Broadcom-VMware saga as AWS is the next target and why Microsoft is recalling the Recall defaults. Remember the CoPilot app silently installed on your Windows Servers? We talk about that too. All this and Paul trying so very hard to stay composed. Join Chocolatey Software's Gary Ewan Park, Paul Broadwith and Stephen Valdinger as we go through the latest tech and...

We chat about the latest software news, including JetBrains doubling down on process after the Rapid7 spat and Python having a bad time with PyPI and packages. Join Chocolatey Software's Gary Ewan Park, Paul Broadwith and Stephen Valdinger as we go through the latest tech and security news of the last month. Add to your calendar and find everything we talked about today in the episode resources ....

We chat about the latest software news, including JetBrains doubling down on process after the Rapid7 spat and Python having a bad time with PyPI and packages. Join Chocolatey Software's Gary Ewan Park, Paul Broadwith and Stephen Valdinger as we go through the latest tech and security news of the last month. Add to your calendar and find everything we talked about today in the episode resources ....

We chat about the latest software news, including Broadcom continuing squeeze with VMware subscriptions and Avast loses to the FTC over user data.  Join Chocolatey Software's Gary Ewan Park, Paul Broadwith and James Ruskin as we go through the latest tech and security news of the last month. Add to your calendar and find everything we talked about today in the episode resources . Complete our surv...

We wrestle with Windows getting a sudo command (didn't it already have one?), Bluesky going GA and nginx fragmenting. We also dig into the recent security news, where Ivanti is having a bad day. Join Chocolatey Software's Gary Ewan Park, Paul Broadwith and Stephen Valdinger, as they chat through the latest tech and security news of the last month. Add to your calendar and find everything we talked...