Mary Branscombe

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How Microsoft made its Answers forum less useful

AskWoody

18h ago·1 min read·81 words

CIOs are put to the test as security regulations across borders recalibrate

CIO.com

6d ago·1 min read·141 words

Yes, Java Still Matters in the AI Era

The New Stack

Apr 8·1 min read·39 words

Copa: 'The missing piece' for automating patching containers at scale

The Stack

Mar 31·1 min read·146 words

Get off the never-ending vulnerability piñata that is Ingress NGINX

The Stack

Mar 19·1 min read·31 words

All my posts about Temporal

The New Stack

Mar 11·1 min read·64 words

State of the Edge Report 2026: Space is the ultimate edge

State of the Edge

Mar 9·1 min read·173 words

What AX can do to deliver cohesion and uniformity to AI agents

CIO

Mar 2·1 min read·47 words

Control power to your display

AskWoody

Feb 9·1 min read·7 words

What to do when your PC won't stay asleep

Ask Woody

Feb 9·1 min read·12 words

Kata containers: the overlooked Kubernetes workload isolation for secure AI

The Stack

Feb 9·1 min read·42 words

Secure messaging on Windows with Signal

AskWoody

Jan 28·1 min read·105 words

How File Explorer can show the files you want — quickly

AskWooody

Jan 12·1 min read·86 words

Delete your user profile to clean up Windows Settings and defaults

Ask Woody

Jan 12·1 min read·13 words

How Azure Copilot’s New Agents Automate DevOps and SecOps

The New Stack

Nov 18·1 min read·100 words

NATS: The event bus that tries to have it all

The Stack

Nov 17·1 min read·94 words

Why a Linux distro becoming a CNCF project matters

The Stack

Nov 17·1 min read·66 words

Do you want to run your own registry – and is Harbor the solution?

The Stack

Nov 17·1 min read·75 words

Aspire brings .NET the enterprise tooling it always needed

The Stack

Nov 17·1 min read·171 words

Is your platform engineering mature enough to need Radius?

The Stack

Nov 17·1 min read·36 words

Can OpenStack really replace VMware in organizations that still need to run their own virtualisation?

The Stack

Nov 17·1 min read·41 words

State of the Edge 2022:Data centres in space

State of the Edge

Nov 4·3 min read·480 words

State of the Edge 2022: Is It the Cloud or the Edge? (It's Both)

State of the Edge

Nov 4·2 min read·343 words

State of the Edge 2022: Born in the cloud, works at the edge

State of the Edge

Nov 4·2 min read·358 words

State of the edge 2020: hardware

State of the Edge

Nov 4·2 min read·366 words

Can Arduino teach Qualcomm how to talk to developers?

The New Stack

Nov 2·1 min read·13 words

Talos Linux: Rethink running Kubernetes

The Stack

Oct 28·1 min read·63 words

XSLT Debate Leads To Bigger Questions of Web Governance

The New Stack

Oct 27·1 min read·12 words

The White Wind blows across the Blue Sky and improves the atmosphere

Nov 14·1 min read·47 words