IT spending rises as banks balance legacy and innovation
Monday, April 13, 2026 by Russ Scritchfield
Financial institutions face rising IT budgets as they balance innovation, legacy and regulation, says Celent, a GlobalData company. Firms across banking, insurance, and capital markets are preparing for a year of measured technology investment, where the need to modernize core platforms meets the urgency to scale artificial intelligence and reinforce data governance. Wi...
AI is becoming more widespread in collaboration tools
Thursday, April 9, 2026 by Richard Harris
Artificial intelligence is moving from pilot projects and isolated features to the connective fabric of enterprise collaboration and communications. Across meetings, chat, calling, contact centers, and the business applications that surround them, AI is becoming a practical tool that links people, workflows, and data. AI reach and influence on collaboration and communic...
Accelerating corporate ai investment returns
Monday, March 30, 2026 by Russ Scritchfield
AI investments across industries struggle to pay off. Record spending on artificial intelligence has yet to translate into record earnings impact. Global enterprise budgets for AI are surging past three hundred billion dollars, generative models command attention, and board agendas are crowded with AI priorities. Yet many leadership teams still wrestle with a basic ques...
UK Fintech Platform Enviromates Connects Projects Brands and Consumers
Thursday, March 26, 2026 by Trey Abbe
UK startup Enviromates launches platform connecting environmental projects, brands and consumers. From its base in London, Enviromates.earth introduces a fintech platform built to make environmental participation easier to start, easier to trust, and easier to repeat. Co founded by 21 year old Mia Roberts together with Simon Roberts, the company is presenting a practica...
UNESCO AI initiatives driving sustainable development in Africa
Tuesday, March 24, 2026 by Trey Abbe
Artificial intelligence in Africa is often framed through big promises and global headlines, but the most important work is happening at a much more practical level. Across the continent, developers, educators, and institutions are focusing on what actually makes systems useful: reliable data, resilient infrastructure, and tools that fit local constraints. This is not a...
Gaming goes permanent as Pokemon tops global tattoo trends
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
Tattoos have long been a way for people to mark the moments, memories, and obsessions that define them. Once associated mainly with rebellion or counterculture, tattoos are now fully mainstream.
Video games, meanwhile, have grown up alongside those same generations. What started as simple arcade entertainment has evolved into a $200-billion global industry, shaping c...
Give to gain empowering women on International Womens Day 2026
Wednesday, March 4, 2026 by Richard Harris
International Womens Day arrives on March 8, 2026, with a theme that is both timely and practical. Give to Gain calls on communities, employers, and individuals to invest time, attention, networks, and resources so that opportunities for women expand. The idea is straightforward. Generosity does not reduce what we have. It multiplies what is possible. When women advance...
DeFi confidence grows with experience as users look toward 2026
Thursday, February 26, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
Sentiment among DeFi users remains positive heading into 2026, with 72% of respondents globally expressing optimism about the sector’s future. U.S. users reported one of the highest confidence levels at 83%, while sentiment across Asian markets was comparatively more muted, with respondents in Singapore (64%), Taiwan (63%) and in Hong Kong (56%), according to a su...
AI model poisoning is real and we need to be aware of it
Monday, February 16, 2026 by Richard Harris
On a clear night I set up my telescope in the yard and let the mount hum along while the camera gathers light from something distant and patient. The workflow is a ritual. Focus by eye until the airy disk tightens. Shoot test frames and watch the histogram. Capture darks, flats, and bias frames so the quirks of the sensor can be cleaned away later. That discipline is no...
OpenShift 4.21 launches with unified platform for AI and modern apps
Wednesday, February 11, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
Red Hat OpenShift 4.21 is now generally available, based on Kubernetes 1.34 and CRI-O 1.34. This release focuses on unifying AI training, containerized microservices, and virtualized applications on a single operational model to reduce costs and eliminate infrastructure silos.
Accelerated AI innovation
Streamlined training: Data scientists can use a sing...
Reused bitcoin addresses are quietly increasing quantum risk
Wednesday, February 4, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
Despite billions spent on blockchain improvements and security measures, crypto criminals still steal billions of dollars from the crypto ecosystem each year, and that didn`t change in 2025. In fact, with over $4 billion in total losses from hacks, fraud, scams, money laundering, and ransomware, 2025 was the worst year for crypto illicit activity ever recorded.
Howev...
The risks of iPad childhood
Monday, January 26, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
A typical 8-year-old in the UK now spends almost three hours a day online, and by age two, around 4 in 10 children already have their own tablet. At the same time, children’s enjoyment of reading is at a record low in UK surveys. The issue has gained new urgency after Australia announced a world-first ban on social media for under-16s, according to BBC.
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HPU takes first place in 2025 International Collegiate Programming Con
Friday, January 9, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
Hawai‘i Pacific University has again demonstrated a quiet consistency that rarely draws attention to itself until the results are tallied. At the 2025 International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), Pacific Northwest Region, HPU secured first place in Hawai‘i in Division I, the contest’s most advanced tier. It is a familiar outcome, but not a rout...
How AI will reshape games, talent, and growth in 2026
Tuesday, January 6, 2026 by Austin Harris
How AI will reshape games, talent, and growth in 2026
Looking ahead to 2026, the future of games will be shaped by a fundamental shift in how companies operate: how they scale creativity, empower talent, and engage players in real-time. AI is no longer a point solution, but the connective layer redefining marketing, organizational design, and player experience. Toget...
AI generated scams and phishing in 2026
Monday, January 5, 2026 by Austin Harris
David Stonehill, CTO, NetLib Security offers his insight into what 2026 will hold for us in the way of AI scams.
By 2026, AI-generated scams and phishing will be virtually indistinguishable from legitimate apps, storefronts, and communications making detection alone unreliable. App developers will need to design for breach resilience using MFA, passkeys, AI-driven se...
2026 SEO Prediction from SerpApi
Wednesday, December 10, 2025 by Austin Harris
SEO won't be going anywhere, GEO will still use top ranking results as one of the parameters when looking for references, so it's still important to rank on important keywords that are relevant to business.
While search engines may keep pushing AI-generated answers with summaries or TL; DRs, etc., people will seek greater authenticity, as AI-generated content...
Anaconda enterprise AI Catalyst launches
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 by Richard Harris
Anaconda has introduced AI Catalyst, a suite designed to support enterprise artificial intelligence development with a focus on transparency, governance, and deployment flexibility. The offering is part of the Anaconda Platform and operates on Amazon Web Services (AWS), giving organizations a way to identify, test, and operationalize AI models within controlled environm...
Markets rally as Nvidia faces high-stakes earnings test
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
US equity futures are advancing alongside tech shares ahead of Nvidia’s earnings Wednesday, as investors now face a moment that demands sharper attention, warns the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organizations.
The move higher reflects confidence that Nvidia will once again clear a demanding hurdle.
Consensus points to...
Safe c plus plus proposal abandoned after community pushback
Tuesday, November 25, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
In the ever-evolving landscape of software development, a significant effort to overhaul the C++ programming language for enhanced safety has come to an abrupt halt. The Safe C++ proposal, which sought to introduce a memory-safe subset of the language inspired by the guarantees found in newer languages like Rust, has been abandoned by its lead author. This development o...
DevOps migration index find big bang platform migrations drain budgets
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 by Richard Harris
CloudBees has released its first DevOps Migration Index, offering an in-depth examination of how large enterprises are managing modernization initiatives across their software delivery ecosystems. Based on a survey of more than 300 enterprise IT and technology leaders, the report reveals a consistent pattern of cost overruns, project fatigue, and diminished returns on l...
Airline data breach hits WestJet exposing over 1M passengers
Thursday, October 30, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
Canada’s second-largest airline, WestJet, disclosed that a data breach earlier this year compromised the personal information of approximately 1.2 million passengers. The airline reported the incident in a filing with Maine’s attorney general, confirming that 240 residents in the state were affected.
Details of the information compromised
The informati...
New report reveals a thriving app ecosystem is valued by developers
Tuesday, October 28, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
A major new survey of U.S. app-business leaders shows strong confidence in the app economy and in the tools available for developers. The research, released by the Developers Alliance, found high proportions of respondents reporting that the app ecosystem remains robust, efficient, and supportive of growth.
Survey methods and key findings
The report draws on respo...
Meta unveils holiday ecommerce playbook at Playa Vista Summit
Tuesday, October 28, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
Meta’s 2025 SMB Advertiser Summit in Playa Vista revealed a stark truth for ecommerce brands heading into Q4: creative diversification is no longer optional—it is survival. At the exclusive event, attended by Meta’s top agency partners and select DTC brands, the summit highlighted the importance of preparing campaigns strategically for the upcoming hol...
Perforce reveals uncertainty around AI data privacy
Tuesday, October 28, 2025 by Austin Harris
Perforce Software’s 2025 State of Data Compliance and Security Report has revealed a striking disconnect between enterprise AI ambitions and the understanding of data privacy risks. According to the report, a large majority of organizations support using sensitive data in AI development but simultaneously express significant concerns about its security. This parad...
Linux Foundation unveils Newton to boost robot learning
Monday, October 27, 2025 by Austin Harris
The Linux Foundation has added Newton, an open source physics engine, to its collaborative project portfolio. Newton is designed to accelerate robotics research by providing GPU-accelerated simulations that allow robots to learn and perform complex tasks more efficiently. Developed collaboratively by Disney Research, Google DeepMind, and NVIDIA, the engine offers scalab...
Kids app design shifting from limits to long-term learning
Monday, October 27, 2025 by Richard Harris
Excessive screen time among kids has been shown to have detrimental impacts. Tragically, research shows that even kids as young as nine or ten who spend more time on screens face a higher risk of developing mental health issues such as depression and anxiety.
That’s why, in an attempt to hold Big Tech accountable, bipartisan legislation has been introduced in t...
TestRail launches AI-Powered test case generation
Friday, October 24, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
TestRail has released version 9.5, introducing a significant step in automated quality assurance through AI-powered test case generation built on the Sembi IQ engine. The new system aims to streamline how QA teams produce test cases, providing a faster and more efficient way to ensure complete test coverage while maintaining control and security.
The feature allows t...
uRoutine prepares to roll out AI-Powered social productivity platform
Wednesday, October 22, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
uRoutine, a productivity-focused social network platform, has secured £555,000 in seed funding to support the development and rollout of its AI-assisted app. The investment, raised in approximately three weeks, came largely from angel investors connected to the founders’ earlier venture, PushFar. The new funds will be used to build product features, expand m...
Nvidia results highlight AI's strength as stocks hit records
Monday, October 20, 2025 by Austin Harris
Nvidia has reported earnings and revenues that exceeded analysts’ expectations, with sales guidance of $54 billion for the current quarter. The results underscore the ongoing expansion of infrastructure driven by artificial intelligence, as demand for AI-powered computing continues to accelerate.
The company’s earnings announcement arrived as the S&P ...
Ludo.ai Debuts sprite generator for instant 2D animation creation
Friday, October 17, 2025 by Richard Harris
Ludo.ai has launched Sprite Generator, a tool designed to simplify the creation of animated sprites for 2D games. The platform allows developers to generate engine-ready sprites from text prompts or existing 2D assets, producing downloadable sprite sheets compatible with game engines such as Unity, Godot, and GameMaker. By automating aspects of the animation pipeline, S...
Developer centric strategies for deploying AI models in production
Monday, October 13, 2025 by Austin Harris
Ed Charbeneau, in a recent discussion, highlighted practical strategies for deploying AI models in production. Known for his work as Principal Developer Advocate at Progress Software, Charbeneau emphasized managing non-deterministic AI behavior, integrating agentic AI into developer workflows, and optimizing tools and context management to enhance productivity and relia...
Formation Games launches CLUB
Sunday, October 12, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
CLUB Game is available now for iOS and Android users ahead of the 2025/26 season kick-off.
The highly anticipated game combines the real-world strategy of Fantasy Football management, casual squad building with the real-time thrill of owning a football club. Players make decisions beyond the pitch helping to progress and nurture the identity of their dream football f...
Study finds majority of developers have a strong work-life balance
Sunday, October 12, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
A survey of 200 senior developers at medium-large sized brands by enterprise CMS Storyblok has revealed the factors that developers say make them most productive at work.
Storyblok surveyed developers on their job satisfaction, personal working preferences, and how their job impacts their personal life.
Workplace preferences
When asked what their most pro...
Apple withdraws ICE tracking apps from App Store including ICEBlock
Friday, October 10, 2025 by Trey Abbe
Apple has removed ICEBlock and similar applications from its App Store following a request from the Trump administration. The move marks a rare instance of a U.S. technology firm complying with a federal demand to take down apps, raising new questions about the balance between public safety, free speech, and corporate responsibility.
What the apps did
ICEBlock and...
OpenAI social app Sora rolls out as standalone platform with Sora 2
Friday, October 10, 2025 by Richard Harris
OpenAI has launched a new social platform called Sora, designed around AI-generated short form video. The release coincides with Sora 2, the company’s upgraded video generation model. Together, the app and the model represent a move into the social media space, where OpenAI is positioning its technology against platforms such as TikTok and Instagram Reels.
Intr...
