Red Hat doesn't have any intellectual property to speak of. Their products are all open source.

The news from higher education invariably falls into one of two categories:

• - Increased politicisation
• - Lowered academic standards

Is this an accurate reflection of reality? I have no idea. But from the perspective of an employer, looking for evidence that a candidate is educated (as opposed to indoctrinated), degrees are looking increasingly worthless.

I did a STEM degree at a UK university. Every course was assessed with in-person, proctored exams - didn't matter if the course was remote or not. Even the final dissertation included a proctored exam to confirm that the work was actually mine.

LLMs haven't created a new problem, they've just democratised an old one. Rich students have been outsourcing essays for years; now anyone with a browser can do the same.

The cat’s out of the bag with AI. If universities are serious about academic integrity, there’s still a simple fix: sit students in a room and test what they actually know.

The employees got what they wanted. They no longer work for a company whose business practices they disapprove of. They could have just resigned instead of staging a PR stunt on their way out, but to each their own.

"bulldozing Palestinian homes to build Israeli ones" occurs when they're built without planning permission, which happens in every country, including Israeli homes. It's just that when the country is Israel, and the illegal builder is Palestinian, it becomes an International incident.

By the way did you know that Jews aren't allowed to live in the Palestinian territories, and that under Palestinian law, selling land to a Jew is a capital offence?

The reason why "finding a peaceful resolution" has consistently failed is that the Palestinians have responded to every serious offer by starting a war.

There have been several opportunities for a Palestinian state, but unfortunately each time it becomes a possibility, they prove that their only true national aspiration is to kill as many Jews as possible.

Out of interest, what would your country do if a neighbour invaded its territory and slaughtered its citizens? By the USA's own admission, Israel is doing more than Western powers to protect enemy civilians during wartime.

Perhaps the allies should have surrendered to the Nazis, or arranged a ceasefire when they got to Berlin, to spare German civilian casualties? At least the Wehrmacht didn't make a strategy out of using their own population as human shields.

War is tragic, and firing from behind civilian infrastructure doesn't grant an automatic victory. Palestinian suffering will be over when they choose to build a better life for themselves instead of waging a genocidal war against others.

The AI will be needed to maintain its own poor quality code. The AI will become indispensable, humans are just the disposable infection vector.

Screwdrivers are useless. I threw 10 at a loose screw, and it's as loose as ever. And nobody has ever successfully predicted the weather or cured disease with a screwdriver.

A relative ranking of Python and SQL makes as much sense as a relative ranking of battleships, bicycles, and racing cars. They all take you from one place to another, but for completely different use-cases.

No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering

The comments to this article are, unsurprisingly, full of propaganda and bigotry, with no reasonable discussion of the technology or how it's deployed.

That's why we can no longer have civil discourse. Every topic has to get pulled some absolutist politicised position, nothing can be discussed on its merits. Furthermore, no grey areas, where there are at multiple, often subjective, aspects to an issue and reasonable people may differ, are allowed.

How's that different to the typical office environment?