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Security

Social engineering takeover attacks are on the rise

• Thursday, April 18, 2024
• By Brittany Hainzinger

OpenSSF and the OpenJS Foundation are alerting open source project maintainers of social engineering takeover attacks, following new attack attempts they’ve witnessed similar to the XZ Utils incident....

Game Development

Epic Games defeats Google in court

• Thursday, April 18, 2024
• By Richard Harris

After victory over Google in December, where a U.S. jury cast the tech behemoth as the big bad monopoly wolf of Android app distribution and in-app billing. Epic Games aims to shake up Google Play's rulebook....

Security

Veracode acquires Longbow Security

• Thursday, April 18, 2024
• By Freeman Lightner

Veracode acquires Longbow Security, enhancing its cloud-native security capabilities. The merger provides tools for automated threat assessment and streamlined remediation, improving risk management and security posture for organizations....

Events

TRON HTX DAO Hong Kong Meetup 2024

• Monday, April 15, 2024
• By Richard Harris

The TRON x HTX DAO: Hong Kong Meetup 2024 event, hosted by TRON and co-organized by HTX DAO, took place in Hong Kong with great success bringing together the brightest minds of the HTX DAO ecosystem....

Cryptocurrency

Safer Bitcoin alternative launched from DLC.Link

• Monday, April 15, 2024
• By Brittany Hainzinger

DLC.Link’s has launched a safer-wrapped Bitcoin alternative that will first be available on Arbitrum, creating a trustless bridge to Ethereum DeFi without centralizing or pooling assets....

Artificial Intelligence

Apple shifts position on AI and aquires Darwin AI

• Wednesday, April 10, 2024
• By Brittany Hainzinger

Apple has recently acquired the AI company Darwin AI, and GlobalData's Patent Analytics database revealed some of Apple's recent patent filings in AI, signifying a pivotal shift in the company's approach to integrating AI into its core operations and...

Blockchain

AlgoKit blockchain toolset adds native Python support

• Tuesday, April 9, 2024
• By Freeman Lightner

The Algorand Foundation has released AlgoKit 2.0, which includes upgrades to the CLI on the toolset for blockchain developers, that has native support for Python and empowers developers to write Algorand apps....

Artificial Intelligence

Gemini in Android Studio announced by Google

• Tuesday, April 9, 2024
• By Richard Harris

Google announced the release of Gemini in Android Studio, which enhances app development with AI-driven code completion, debugging, and resource discovery, plus documentation assistance. It is now available in the Jellyfish beta version and aims to i...

Events

GDC 2024 conclusion

• Wednesday, April 3, 2024
• By Richard Harris

GDC 2024 brought almost 30K attendees for a week of connecting and learning, with over 1K speakers across 730 sessions, workshops, and roundtables, with 325 of the top game companies exhibiting innovations, and revealed the new GDC Travel Together, G...

Artificial Intelligence

Gemini AIs app trails behind ChatGPT

• Wednesday, April 3, 2024
• By Brittany Hainzinger

According to Stocklytics.com, Gemini AI's App debut month saw 633k installs, 1 million behind ChatGPT....

Artificial Intelligence

AI low code roadmap released by WaveMaker

• Wednesday, April 3, 2024
• By Richard Harris

WaveMaker has announced the release of its new modern development system for enterprise-grade software, with an AI-infused low code roadmap that would improve the developer experience and accelerate delivery of pixel perfect software products....

Game Development

Illuminate development tool from PubNub announced at GDC 2024

• Monday, April 1, 2024
• By Richard Harris

Recently at GDC 2024, PubNub announced the release of their newest product Illuminate, a low-code, real-time decisioning and analytics tool for optimizing engagement, real-time game balancing, achieving optimal player experience, live experimentation...

Game Development

Gaming app insights report from AppLovin and Adjust

• Monday, April 1, 2024
• By Freeman Lightner

Adjust and AppLovin have released the Gaming App Insights report, a total dataset of Adjust's top 5,000 apps tracked, that sheds light on recent trends, guiding advertisers toward strategic and informed decision-making to outpace the competition....

Security

DevOps World Backup Day

• Monday, April 1, 2024
• By Freeman Lightner

March 31st is World Backup Day, and on this date cybersecurity specialists from around the world will come together to urge everyone to make backups, so let's focus on a type of data that is often overlooked - DevOps backup....

Security

Leaked data from Shopify plugins developed by Saara

• Wednesday, March 27, 2024
• By Freeman Lightner

The Cybernews research team exposed a data breach from a publicly accessible MongoDB database, tied to the Shopify plugin developers from Saara, the data included over 7M orders and sensitive customer information, plus the data was available for eigh...

NFTs

NFT momentum continues downward per AltIndex

• Wednesday, March 27, 2024
• By Richard Harris

Recent data from Altindex.com has revealed that the NFT market is continuing downward and losing momentum; the annual growth rate is expected to drop twenty times to only 2.6% by 2028. One of the main reasons for a poor market projection is the cons...

Marketing & Promotion

Social media misinformation could impact the 2024 election

• Tuesday, March 26, 2024
• By Brittany Hainzinger

A recent survey from Media.com, revealed that 70 percent of social media users fear that misinformation will impact the 2024 election, with a slim majority (51%) favoring increased regulation and 62% calling for legal action for social platforms that...

Game Development

Playground gaming integrated into Le Monde daily newspaper

• Tuesday, March 26, 2024
• By Freeman Lightner

kr3m has unveiled its online gaming platform for Le Monde, France's daily newspaper, which bridges German tech with French media offering instant access to beloved classics like Solitaire, Sudoku, and Snake, all at no cost and playable directly in we...

Monetize

Publisher Portal for in game audio ad monetization from Odeeo

• Tuesday, March 26, 2024
• By Richard Harris

Odeeo has launched its Publisher Portal, which gives game publishers access to comprehensive features such as analytics, reporting tools, streamlined audio ad management, improved ad performance, customizable ad placements, comparison features, and t...

Artificial Intelligence

GPT app store revenue and API insights

• Tuesday, March 26, 2024
• By Freeman Lightner

OpenAI's GPT App Store has over 3 million GPT apps already created. The store showcases trending and impactful GPTs, and in Q1 2024, the GPT builder revenue program will launch, enabling builders to earn based on GPT usage. To create your own GPT app...

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Social engineering takeover attacks are on the rise Thursday, April 18, 2024

Veracode acquires Longbow Security Thursday, April 18, 2024

Safer Bitcoin alternative launched from DLC.Link Monday, April 15, 2024

Apple shifts position on AI and aquires Darwin AI Wednesday, April 10, 2024

AlgoKit blockchain toolset adds native Python support Tuesday, April 9, 2024

GDC 2024 conclusion Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Gemini AIs app trails behind ChatGPT Wednesday, April 3, 2024