28/01/2025 – Madrid On January 28th, European Data Protection Day is celebrated to raise awareness and promote best practices around privacy and data protection. In a context of exponential data growth, driven by technologies such as IoT, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing, data protection has become a crucial element. According to IDC, the global digital
The Linux kernel, the backbone of countless open-source operating systems, has achieved an impressive milestone: surpassing 40 million lines of code. This achievement, reached with version 6.14 rc1, reflects Linux’s steady growth and the strength of its collaborative development model, which unites thousands of developers worldwide. Since its creation in 1991 by Linus Torvalds as
The growth of a WordPress blog can be an exciting journey, but it also comes with significant challenges in terms of infrastructure and performance. Reaching 100,000 daily visitors doesn’t happen overnight, but whether your blog is experiencing steady growth or preparing for the launch of a high-traffic project, a robust setup is crucial to ensure
Web hosting control panels are a must-have for system administrators and web hosting providers nowadays. That is why we have created a list of the most popular web hosting control panels. Control panels make management and automation tasks easier for sysadmins. They allow, for instance, managing one or several servers from a single dashboard. So,
The Year in Review 2024 report by Cloudflare Radar provides a comprehensive analysis of global Internet trends, highlighting a significant 17.2% increase in global traffic compared to the previous year. This growth has been fueled by the expansion of satellite connectivity services, the adoption of advanced technologies like post-quantum encryption and the HTTP/3 protocol, and
In the world of data management, having efficient and flexible tools can make a significant difference in the performance of any technical team. Harlequin, a SQL integrated development environment (IDE), stands out as a solution that combines power and simplicity, designed specifically to work from the terminal. This tool, created in 2023 by Ted Conbeer,
The world’s most powerful supercomputers use Linux. A supercomputer is a device whose computing capabilities are by far higher than those of common computers. The most powerful supercomputer nowadays exceeds 1,740 Petaflops (PFlops). This is a performance no personal device can achieve. Besides, it is worth mentioning that Linux has dominated the list of the
Open source refers to a software development model where the source code is publicly available. This means anyone can view, modify, and distribute the code according to the terms of the associated license. Unlike proprietary software, open source enables users to collaborate and improve the program continuously, promoting innovation and transparency. This open philosophy is
In a world where technology is advancing by leaps and bounds, few systems have been around as long as the Greenwich Time Signal (GTS) and popularly known as “the PIPs” of radio. This system, which marks time accurately through a series of beeps, celebrates one hundred years of existence. Since its introduction in the 1920s,
In the following list, we have gathered some of the most popular Linux distributions and some growing distros too. GNU/Linux operating systems are Unix-like and open source, and based on the Linux kernel. Among the long list of Linux distributions, there are a number of distros that clearly stand out among the others — in
