Kopec Explains Software

The Classic Mac OS refers to the operating system that Apple Macintosh computers ran from ... more

On July 19th, 2024, the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike released an update for its Falcon S... more

Approximately one in four consumers uses an ad blocker. But do they stop to consider wheth... more

Machine Learning is a discipline within the broader field of Artificial Intelligence conce... more

Abandonware is old software that is no longer commercially available. It's not a legal ter... more

Grace Hopper is one of the most iconic people in the world of software. Her career as a ma... more

The creation of BASIC was one of the most important steps in the democratization of comput... more

Many large sophisticated machine learning models, like those employed in generative AI, ar... more

In 2020 the Trump administration and eleven state attorney generals initiated an antitrust... more

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is one of the largest companies in the world by ma... more

In this episode, originally published in 2020, we discuss the similarities and differences... more

In software, a sandbox is an isolated environment that limits the resources that a particu... more

We explain what caches are, and where they're typically used. We can think of a cache as a... more

Hash tables are some of the most widely used and powerful data structures. They allow for ... more

Understanding open source licenses is critical if you're a software developer. What are yo... more

Shareware was a major distribution model for consumer software and games from the 1980s th... more

We’re out this week, so we remastered a classic episode from 2020. It’s our third episode—... more

FreeBSD is probably the most popular operating system that most people have never heard of... more

There are many misconceptions about open source software, even amongst those who think the... more

ChatGPT and other tools based on large language models (LLMs) have taken the software worl... more