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...
Why MedGemma 1.5 matters more than the headlines
Tuesday, January 27, 2026 by Richard Harris
When Google announced MedGemma 1.5 earlier this month, the tech press lit up with speculation about healthcare AI revolution or seismic shifts in diagnostics. I've spent decades watching tech buzz evolve into real tools and real pain points in the field, and the truth is simpler: this is a solid, practical step in the long road of building useful AI for healthcare. ...
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...
EagleView expands developer ecosystem with free trial access
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
Eagleview announced a major expansion of its developer ecosystem, introducing early access to a free, limited trial for its Imagery API that gives developers unprecedented access to Eagleview’s vast catalog of more than 3.5 billion oblique and orthogonal aerial images.
Developers already have free access to seamlessly integrate Eagleview’s premium aerial ...
tldraw sdk 4.0 release new starter kits and licensing model
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 by Richard Harris
The team behind tldraw, a London-based startup, has announced the fourth major version of its software development kit. The tldraw SDK is a TypeScript library designed for developers building web-based applications with infinite canvas capabilities. This significant update introduces a suite of new resources for developers, important changes to the product's licensi...
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...
Instagram releases official iPad app with optimized tablet experience
Friday, October 17, 2025 by Trey Abbe
Instagram has officially launched its dedicated iPad app, providing a more optimized and immersive experience for tablet users. Previously, Instagram on iPad relied on scaled-up versions of the iPhone app, which limited functionality and user interface efficiency. According to Meta, the company behind Instagram, the new iPad app is designed to take full advantage of lar...
Llama approved for federal use as Meta expands AI reach
Wednesday, October 8, 2025 by Austin Harris
U.S. government agencies have been cleared to use Meta Platforms’ artificial intelligence system, Llama, signaling a broader adoption of commercial AI tools across federal operations. The General Services Administration (GSA) added Llama to its list of approved AI systems, ensuring that the technology meets federal security and legal standards.
Agencies can tes...
Disney sues AI firm MiniMax with Warner Bros Discovery and NBCU
Monday, September 22, 2025 by Richard Harris
Disney, Universal (Comcast), and Warner Bros Discovery have jointly filed a lawsuit against China-based AI company MiniMax, claiming its Hailuo AI service uses copyrighted characters without authorization. The complaint, submitted in a California district court, alleges that MiniMax generated images and videos of well-known characters including Darth Vader, Minions, and...
Health care AI is improving speed and accuracy of medical diagnoses
Monday, September 8, 2025 by Trey Abbe
Artificial intelligence (AI) in health care—often described as augmented intelligence—is increasingly regarded as a valuable support system rather than a disruptive force. A recent survey by the American Medical Association (AMA) highlights that physicians are showing growing confidence in AI’s role within clinical practice, even as they remain cautiou...
OpenAI introduces GPT-5
Thursday, September 4, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
OpenAI recently introduced GPT-5 as the most advanced AI system so far, with a significant leap in intelligence over previous models. It featured state-of-the-art performance in coding, math, writing, health, visual perception, and more. GPT-5 was described as a unified system that could determine when to respond quickly and when to spend more time reasoning to giv...
Fast scalable web game design using Recraft
Thursday, August 28, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
As the global web gaming market grows more competitive, game creators are increasingly turning to new tools to meet the demand for fresh content at speed. To stay ahead of the constant need for new visuals and game assets, the Playgama team adopted Recraft, an AI design platform that enables developers and designers to generate consistent, high-quality images and UI ele...
Tea App cybersecurity incident update
Thursday, August 14, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
The Tea App has issued an update regarding the cybersecurity incident that occurred on July 25, 2025. During the course of an ongoing investigation, it was discovered that some users’ direct messages (DMs) were accessed as part of the initial breach. As a precautionary measure, the company has disabled DM functionality and taken the affected system offline.
Tea...
ChatGPT agents bridging research and action
Tuesday, August 12, 2025 by Austin Harris
You can now ask ChatGPT to handle requests like “look at my calendar and brief me on upcoming client meetings based on recent news,” “plan and buy ingredients to make Japanese breakfast for four,” and “analyze three competitors and create a slide deck.” ChatGPT will intelligently navigate websites, filter results, prompt you to log in...
How composable architecture and AI are changing platform development
Tuesday, August 5, 2025 by Richard Harris
Businesses are under constant pressure to stay competitive and adapt to new technological trends. One approach gaining traction is composable architecture. When combined with AI, composable architecture offers the flexibility to build scalable, efficient systems that can evolve as market demands change. The aim goes beyond efficiency - it’s about building systems ...
iOS fitness app Fitify exposes 138K user private photos
Friday, July 25, 2025 by Austin Harris
Fitify’s publicly accessible Google cloud storage bucket has exposed hundreds of thousands of files. Some of the files were user-uploaded progress pictures that individuals upload to track their body changes over time. After Cybernews contacted the company, the unprotected instance was closed.
iOS fitness app Fitify exposes 138K user private photos: Key takeawa...
Infragistics Releases Ultimate 25.1
Wednesday, July 16, 2025 by Austin Harris
Infragistics, the provider of tools and solutions to accelerate application design and development, recently announced the launch of Infragistics Ultimate 25.1, the company's flagship UX and UI product. The enhanced Infragistics Ultimate UI/UX toolkit offers a comprehensive library of enterprise-grade UI controls and includes the exclusive l...
Infragistics launches major updates
Thursday, June 26, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
Infragistics announced the launch of Infragistics Ultimate 25.1, the company's flagship UX and UI product. The enhanced Infragistics Ultimate UI/UX toolkit offers a comprehensive library of enterprise-grade UI controls and includes the exclusive low-code WYSIWYG App Builder for developing modern, high-performance, and engaging apps across major frameworks.
F...
Amazon Q Developer now available in GitHub preview
Friday, June 13, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
Amazon Q Developer is now available in preview on GitHub, providing a powerful tool for developers who use GitHub for both professional and personal projects. This integration allows developers to leverage Amazon Q Developer for feature development, code reviews, and Java code migration directly within the GitHub interface.
Amazon Q Developer now available in GitHub ...
Top growth areas for developers in 2025
Monday, January 13, 2025 by Austin Harris
There are many ways artificial intelligence can assist developers today, from helping to streamline the development process by instantly detecting and fixing errors to summarizing code and generating documentation. A recent survey corroborated that 76% of developers are using or planning to use AI coding tools. Respondents cited several benefits for using AI such as inc...
Bridging the AI gap - Turning hype into reality
Monday, January 6, 2025 by Richard Harris
As AI and analytics continue to drive innovation across industries, SciPlay’s SVP of Data & Analytics, Shmuel Ben-Meleh, shares key trends he believes will shape the industry’s approach to data in 2025. Shmuel’s insights offer a unique look into the future of data accessibility, real-time personalization, and the emerging tools that are redefining ...
AI software development shifts as AWS and poolside team up
Tuesday, December 17, 2024 by Austin Harris
Amazon Web Services and poolside have announced a multi-year agreement to make poolside's generative AI Assistant and foundation models (FMs) available in Amazon Bedrock. Amazon Bedrock is a fully-managed service that offers developers access to high-performing models from leading AI companies through a single API. As a result, enterprise customers will soon be...
GenYOU AI app
Monday, December 9, 2024 by Austin Harris
GenYOU, an AI-powered application from Icons8 LLC, offers users a unique way to create digital photographs of themselves in various styles and scenarios. By leveraging advanced AI technology, the app allows users to generate images that consistently resemble their real-life appearance, enabling a highly personalized experience. The app is available for download on iOS a...
Image-to-text and text-to-speech integrations explained
Saturday, November 9, 2024 by Austin Harris
In the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence, the integration of image-to-text and text-to-speech models is paving the way for groundbreaking applications. In this second installment, Joas Pambou is spearheading efforts to develop an advanced system that transforms static images and videos into interactive conversational experiences. This innovation aims to ...
AI in retail explored
Wednesday, November 6, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
In the rapidly evolving world of retail, artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a transformative force. With industries increasingly adopting AI technologies, the retail sector is poised to follow suit. Yet, the impact of AI on retail operations remains a topic of debate among consumers and business owners alike. To shed light on this issue, we delve into the histo...
visionOS 2 Apple Vision Pro now available
Monday, October 21, 2024 by Richard Harris
Apple has released visionOS 2, a significant update designed to enhance the Apple Vision Pro experience. This update introduces the ability to transform favorite photos into spatial photos, new intuitive hand gestures, and a range of new features in popular apps.
visionOS 2 Apple Vision Pro now available worldwide
visionOS 2 is available today, delivering new spat...
OpenAI o1 preview
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 by Austin Harris
OpenAI recently announced the development of a new series of AI models designed to spend more time thinking before responding. These models can reason through complex tasks and solve harder problems than previous iterations in science, coding, and math.
OpenAI o1 preview, has been released in ChatGPT and the API
The first model in this series, named OpenAI o1-prev...
AI blog creation tools released from Wix
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 by Austin Harris
Wix, the SaaS website builder platform recently announced the release of a suite of AI-powered tools designed to suggest relevant topic ideas for blogs and generate content and images for their target audience. With this new experience, users can swiftly turn ideas into near-ready articles, significantly reducing the time and effort required to create engaging cont...
Meta AI is multilingual now
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 by Austin Harris
Meta has announced that they are expanding access to Meta AI, the assistant in their apps and devices, and introducing new features to help users with answers, ideas, and inspiration. Meta AI is now available in 22 countries, with the latest additions being Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Cameroon. Users can also interact with Meta AI across Whats...
AI 3D model search engine features coming to Toggle3D
Tuesday, January 30, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
Toggle3D.ai, the all-in-one 3D modeling solution harnessing the power of generative AI to convert CAD files, apply 4K texturing, and seamlessly publish 4K 3D models, is excited to report a 75% jump in usage in Q4. The Toggle3D platform currently has 27,192 users, and 26,504 or 97% of the users are active and have logged in within the last 30 days. The Company is fo...
Future of digital communications according to Sendbird
Wednesday, December 20, 2023 by Richard Harris
Over the last year, human-to-machine interactions skyrocketed almost overnight with the launch of ChatGPT. These interactions were as intelligent and personal as ever, and the hype cycle for generative AI, large language models, and next-generation chatbots has stayed in hyperdrive.
Today, we’re experiencing the biggest paradigm shift since the Internet Dot.com...
App developer trends for 2024 according to Kochava
Tuesday, December 12, 2023 by Richard Harris
Ethan Lewis is the CTO of Kochava, the real-time data solutions company for omnichannel attribution and measurement, and Vaunt, an open-source community engagement tool that helps organizations grow their developer communities. He discusses the rapid growth of the app industry and what’s next for application developers.
What’s next for software developers...
AI performance monitoring from Datadog and Vertex AI
Thursday, November 16, 2023 by Richard Harris
Datadog, Inc., the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, announced an expanded strategic partnership with Google Cloud, which enables Google Cloud customers to proactively observe and secure their cloud-native and hybrid applications within Datadog’s unified platform. As part of the expanded partnership and integrations, Datadog is one of the fi...
AI voice translator app launches from Addevice
Thursday, November 9, 2023 by Richard Harris
Armenian software development company Addevice has launched idict, a mobile app that allows users to instantly translate both voice and text communications into 137 different languages. idict is now available for mobile phones and tablets on the Apple app store and Google Play.
Addevice launches translation app Idict.AI, that allows users to instantly trans...
Generate AI videos with Creative RealityTM Studio mobile app
Wednesday, November 1, 2023 by Austin Harris
D-ID has announced the launch of its popular Creative RealityTM Studio as a Mobile App. Available on Google Play and iOS, the app increases access for existing and new users to create videos of digital people from a single image with accompanying scripts in 120 languages.
The desktop version of Creative RealityTM Studio already boasts more than 150 million video...
