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AWS Certificate Manager

Tuesday, July 22, 2025 by Richard Harris

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced the launch of exportable public certificates through AWS Certificate Manager (ACM), empowering customers to secure any workload, inside or outside of AWS, with ease. This new capability allows organizations to issue public Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates and access the associated private keys, enabling secure TLS ...

Apple browser engine ban persists even under DMA

Monday, July 21, 2025 by Freeman Lightner

Apple’s rules and technical restrictions are blocking other browser vendors from successfully offering their own engines to users in the EU. At the recent Digital Markets Act (DMA) workshop, Apple claimed it didn’t know why no browser vendor has ported their engine to iOS over the past 15 months. But the reality is Apple knows exactly what the barriers are a...

Major workforce reduction at Indeed and Glassdoor

Monday, July 21, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield

Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd., the parent company of global employment platforms Indeed and Glassdoor, announced today that it will reduce its workforce by approximately 1,300 positions, representing about 6% of the HR Technology segment’s total staff. The reduction, announced July 10 U.S. time, comes as part of a sweeping reorganization aimed at streamlining oper...

State of Unreal 2025 recap

Friday, July 18, 2025 by Freeman Lightner

https://appdevelopermagazine.com/fortnite-returns-to-ios/The State of Unreal 2025 recently concluded, offering the audience a first look at the cutting-edge technologies Epic Games is developing and releasing to help developers and creators build immersive experiences. All the big news and announcements from the State of Unreal 2025 The show began with a technical...

Red Hat Generative AI

Friday, July 18, 2025 by Richard Harris

Red Hat, the provider of open source solutions, recently announced Red Hat AI Inference Server, a significant step towards democratizing generative AI (gen AI) across the hybrid cloud. A new offering within Red Hat AI, the enterprise-grade inference server is born from the powerful vLLM community project and enhanced by Red Hat’s integration of Neural Magic techno...

McDonalds AI Hiring Bot Breach

Thursday, July 17, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield

Security researchers uncovered a critical vulnerability in McDonald’s AI-powered hiring system, McHire, revealing how a simple password flaw could have exposed applicant data, but importantly, no candidate information was leaked or made publicly available, and only five records were briefly accessed by researchers who responsibly reported the issue. In a supers...

2025 Swift Student Challenge winners

Tuesday, July 15, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger

Apple recently spotlighted four young developers among the 350 global winners of its 2025 Swift Student Challenge, an initiative that empowers students to explore the power of coding through creative app playgrounds. Representing the next generation of innovation and driven by personal experiences and local challenges, the selected Distinguished Winners - Taiki Hamamoto...

WhatsApp Business Calling API

Monday, July 14, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger

Meta has announced the global availability of the WhatsApp Business Calling API, a powerful new solution that enables businesses to create seamless, end-to-end communication journeys for their customers within the familiar WhatsApp platform. With billions of active users worldwide, WhatsApp has become a trusted and essential channel for businesses to engage, support,...

Top 3 Google IO announcements

Sunday, July 13, 2025 by Richard Harris

Google Play remains committed to helping people discover experiences they love, while empowering developers to bring ideas to life and build successful businesses. This year’s Google I/O event featured a wide range of announcements aimed at advancing those goals. For a full overview of everything shared, developers and users can visit the blog post recapping What&...

Apple's WWDC 2025: Innovation for everyone except app developers

Wednesday, June 11, 2025 by Richard Harris

Apple’s WWDC 2025 keynote was a spectacle of contrasts. On one hand, it dazzled developers with a Liquid Glass design aesthetic and a boatload of polished features across iOS, macOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and more. They even threw in some whimsical flair, from cheeky Formula 1 references to a piano man crooning App Store reviews on stage. It felt like Apple was serenad...

The Great App Purge Googles Quality Overhaul

Wednesday, June 4, 2025 by Richard Harris

In early 2025, the tech world was rocked by a revelation that caught even seasoned app developers off guard: Google’s Play Store had lost nearly half of its apps in the span of just over a year. What seemed at first to be a quiet pruning of low-value software turned out to be a full-blown purge, 47% of apps had vanished. A platform that once boasted the largest ca...

iOS app pre-ordering process guide

Monday, June 2, 2025 by Richard Harris

Pre-ordering apps on the iOS App Store is a powerful tool for developers looking to build excitement and gauge interest before a product's official release. Apple provides a robust system that enables developers to make their apps available for pre-order, allowing users to view the product page, learn about the features, and place a pre-order that automatically down...

Apple Ads Search Results Benchmarks Report 2025

Friday, May 30, 2025 by Richard Harris

SplitMetrics’ 2025 Apple Ads Search Results Benchmarks Report, covering performance data from January to December 2024, offers a deep analytical dive into how search results campaigns fared across categories, regions, and timeframes. SplitMetrics, a global software company and certified Apple Ads Partner, used data from its Acquire platform to compile this extensi...

Fortnite returns to iOS

Wednesday, May 28, 2025 by Richard Harris

Fortnite has returned to the iOS App Store in the United States after nearly five years of absence, marking a turning point in the strained relationship between Epic Games and Apple. This reappearance is not just a routine relisting of a popular mobile game, it signifies a dramatic shift in the power struggle between large tech platforms and the developers who rely on t...

AI harms addressed by Anthropic

Wednesday, May 21, 2025 by Austin Harris

As AI capabilities rapidly advance, understanding and addressing the full spectrum of potential impacts becomes increasingly important. Today, we're sharing insights into our evolving approach to assessing and mitigating various harms that could result from our systems, ranging from catastrophic scenarios like biological threats to critical concerns like child safet...

MongoDB names Mike Berry CFO

Friday, May 16, 2025 by Richard Harris

MongoDB, Inc. has announced the appointment of Mike Berry as Chief Financial Officer, effective May 27, 2025. In his new role, Berry will oversee MongoDB's accounting, financial planning and analysis (FP&A), treasury, and investor relations functions. Additionally, he will collaborate with other senior executives to establish and execute the company's long-t...

Diablo 4 How to Get Piranhado

Friday, May 2, 2025 by Richard Harris

Diablo 4 has so many devastating abilities, especially regarding class skills; one is Piranhado, which translates to a whirlpool of water filled with deadly piranhas that devour anything within seconds. Apart from its mobility and visually stunning animation combo, it is strategic at its root. Whether you're a veteran Nephalem or a newbie starting at Sanctuary, mast...

Kong AI Gateway latest version released

Tuesday, April 8, 2025 by Richard Harris

Kong Inc. announced the launch of the latest version of Kong AI Gateway, which introduces new features to provide the AI security and governance guardrails needed to make GenAI and Agentic AI production-ready. New updates include automated Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines aimed at preventing Large Language Model (LLM) hallucinations and a Personally Identi...

Security trade-offs and Xs vulnerabilities

Friday, March 21, 2025 by Richard Harris

The latest cyberattack on X raises an important question: Was this an external attack or a result of internal instability? While hacktivist group Dark Storm has claimed responsibility for the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, it is just as crucial to examine X’s own security posture, particularly in light of the drastic staffing cuts that followed Elon ...

AI development challenges addressed in new update from Mendix

Wednesday, March 19, 2025 by Richard Harris

Mendix recently announced the general availability of Mendix 10.18. The latest release includes new features, performance upgrades, and AI-driven enhancements designed to make software development easier and more accessible. By combining low-code with the power of AI, Mendix 10.18 provides organizations with: AI-powered assistance across the entire so...

Couchbase Edge Server launched for edge AI apps

Tuesday, March 11, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger

Couchbase, Inc. launched Couchbase Edge Server, an offline-first, lightweight database server and sync solution designed to provide low latency data access, consolidation, storage and processing for applications in resource-constrained edge environments. Edge applications that rely solely on cloud databases can be slowed down due to connectivity challenges, bu...

Automated code refactoring platform Moderne

Thursday, March 6, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield

Moderne announced it has closed $30 million in Series B funding led by Acrew Capital with participation from Morgan Stanley, Amex Ventures, and TIAA Ventures, as well as all previous investors Allstate, Intel Capital, Mango Capital, and True Ventures. The funding is further validation that Moderne is emerging as the only company driving mass-scale code modernizatio...

Robotic surgery developer hires grad inspired by mothers procedure

Wednesday, March 5, 2025 by Richard Harris

A December 2024 graduate of Missouri University of Science and Technology is putting his knowledge and skills to work for the company behind the robotic system used to perform his mother’s minimally invasive cancer surgery. Pictured above: Matthew Stehlin celebrates his graduation from Missouri S&T with his mother Amy’s dog, Poppy. Photo by Michael Pi...

Credible Speech Coach app

Friday, February 28, 2025 by Richard Harris

In today’s fast-paced professional world, effective communication is more important than ever. Whether you’re in a job interview, delivering a presentation, or simply engaging in daily conversations, the way you speak can significantly impact how others perceive you. Many people unknowingly undermine their credibility by frequently using filler words such as...

AI coding security discussion with JFrog

Wednesday, February 19, 2025 by Richard Harris

Eyal Dyment, Vice President of Security Products at JFrog, shares his insights in this Q&A on the crucial considerations for developers and businesses when selecting an AI platform. With AI’s transformative role in coding and software development, Eyal addresses key security risks, the growing reliance on AI-powered technologies, and the steps developers can t...

Cybersecurity in 2025

Tuesday, February 4, 2025 by Richard Harris

Timothy Hollebeek shares his insights on the key cybersecurity trends shaping 2025, focusing on the evolving landscape of digital trust and identity. As quantum computing and AI continue to advance, they bring both groundbreaking innovations and new cybersecurity risks. The introduction of Google’s Willow chip signals a new era of quantum technology, accelerating ...

Cybersecurity supply chain risk management predictions for 2025

Thursday, January 16, 2025 by Austin Harris

DTS CEO and President Edward Tuorinsky shares his cybersecurity prediction for shaping the 2025 business landscape. Cybersecurity in 2025 is like that party game where you whisper a phrase to the person next to you. One mistake is passed along to others, with funny outcomes. The stakes are higher, and the results are less amusing when data breaches or hacks travel al...

App marketing for older apps

Wednesday, January 8, 2025 by Richard Harris

App Store Optimization (ASO) is a critical component of app marketing, particularly for older apps that need to regain or maintain market visibility. ASO is more than just keyword optimization; its a holistic approach. It involves multiple levers, including keyword, creative, and engagement optimizations. A comprehensive ASO strategy can significantly enhance an app'...

AGI coding predictions for 2025

Tuesday, January 7, 2025 by Richard Harris

In 2024, there was much excitement about AI code assistance, and also a realization that it poses major risks. Suddenly non-experts could act like expert developers and ask AI to generate a Python script, for example. Without understanding the nuances they simply didn’t know what they didn't know. Often these users failed to ask the right questions, and the AI...

The rise of cloud to on premises repatriation

Tuesday, December 31, 2024 by Richard Harris

As the landscape of data management and cloud technology continues to evolve, businesses are expected to shift focus in 2025, moving workloads from public cloud platforms back to on-premises or private cloud solutions. This trend, driven by rising cloud costs, security concerns, and data sovereignty requirements, is bolstered by advancements in affordable, high-performa...

Software security in 2025 - Four encouraging trends

Thursday, December 26, 2024 by Freeman Lightner

The good news is that over the last few years software development organizations have embraced their role in ensuring the security of their applications in the face of ever-increasing threats to their organizations. The bad news is that they are struggling with how to protect code without overburdening developers, slowing down releases, and generally hindering innovatio...

Java development testing tool Diffblue Cover Developer Edition

Wednesday, December 11, 2024 by Richard Harris

Diffblue released a new edition of its flagship product, Diffblue Cover. Diffblue Cover: Developer Edition meets the unique needs of individual Java developers and small teams, offering an accessible solution for AI-driven, continuous unit testing to drive efficiency, consistency, and scalability. Diffblue Cover is widely adopted by medium-to-large enterprises &ndash...

Building data visualizations with Luzmo Flex

Wednesday, November 20, 2024 by Richard Harris

In the evolving landscape of data analytics, the ability to seamlessly integrate data visualizations into applications is becoming increasingly vital. Paul Scanlon, an expert in the field, has unveiled a new method that promises to simplify this process. By leveraging the Google Analytics API, Scanlon demonstrates how developers can create stunning, interactive data vis...

Build your own dev tools

Monday, November 18, 2024 by Richard Harris

In a groundbreaking move set to revolutionize the design and development landscape, Penpot has launched a new Plugin System that empowers users to create custom tools tailored to their specific needs. This innovative feature not only enhances creative workflows but also invites designers and developers to participate in a dynamic Plugin Contest, offering them a platform...

Organic text distortion effect using infinite scrolling

Thursday, November 14, 2024 by Austin Harris

In the ever-evolving world of web design, creating visually appealing and interactive elements is crucial for engaging users. One innovative technique gaining traction involves crafting organic text distortion effects using infinite scrolling. This method leverages JavaScript and CSS to produce unique, fluid animations that captivate audiences and enhance user experienc...