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...
Ambition launches new app to empower frontline revenue managers
Wednesday, January 7, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
Ambition has expanded its platform with the release of a new mobile app, extending familiar performance intelligence tools into a format designed for managers who spend much of their time away from a desk. At first glance, the app looks intentionally restrained, mirroring the structure and logic users already know. That appears to be the point. Most frontline revenue ma...
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...
App development in 2026: Vickie Chen of AviaGames weighs in
Tuesday, December 23, 2025 by Vickie Chen
Now more than ever, consumers have demanded tech companies be more involved and transparent in social and philanthropic causes, using their resources to give back to those that need it the most.
App development in 2026
As the CEO of Avia, a leading developer on the forefront of skill - based mobile games, my 2026 prediction is that more app developers and publishe...
Tebex Predictions for 2026
Tuesday, December 9, 2025 by Austin Harris
2025’s fight for developer choice and fair platform fees brought us a turning point in digital monetization: Google’s settlement allowed lower Play Store fees but also opened the door to rival third-party app stores on Android. This set a precedent that will create lasting momentum that snowballs into 2026, where alternative payment systems will continue to ...
Bluesky releases dislike button as it reaches 40 million users
Monday, November 3, 2025 by Trey Abbe
The social-media service Bluesky has announced it has surpassed 40 million registered users and is introducing a new “dislike” button in beta, marking a significant step in how it will personalize user experiences and moderate content. According to the company, the new signal is intended to allow users to express what they prefer not to see and help the plat...
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...
Relic research shows high impact IT outages carry $76M median year
Thursday, October 23, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
New Relic released its 2025 Observability Forecast, the industry’s most comprehensive report on the state of observability. Surveying over 1,700 IT and engineering leaders and team members across 23 countries and 11 industries, the report highlights key focus areas, challenges, and trends influencing observability investments like the growing adoption of enterpris...
Heads Up! Developers introduces guilt free fitness
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
Staying active while maintaining a social life and juggling daily responsibilities can sometimes feel like a chore. Many people struggle to find ways to incorporate consistent physical activity into their routines without feeling overwhelmed or bored. While walking is one of the simplest and most beneficial exercises for both physical and mental health, repeating the sa...
Phishing sites seized by Microsoft in major crackdown
Tuesday, September 23, 2025 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has intensified its efforts to combat cybercrime by targeting Raccoon0365, a subscription-based phishing service that enabled wide-scale credential theft. Working through the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the company successfully obtained approval to seize nearly 340 internet domains associated with fraudulent login pages.
The campaign represents one of...
Salesforce breach let hackers steal Google customer data
Monday, August 25, 2025 by Richard Harris
In June, one of Google’s corporate Salesforce instances was affected by activity consistent with the UNC6040 campaign described in the post. Google responded by conducting an impact analysis and implementing mitigation steps. The affected instance stored contact information and related notes for small and medium-sized businesses. Investigators confirmed that data ...
Microsoft at Black Hat USA 2025
Monday, August 11, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
Microsoft will participate in Black Hat USA 2025, scheduled for August 5-7 in Las Vegas, offering attendees a practitioner-driven experience centered on real-world threat intelligence, incident response, and applied AI expertise. The company emphasizes that cybersecurity is most effective when intelligence, tools, and domain expertise are tightly integrated. To that end...
KNP ransomware attack
Wednesday, August 6, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
One of the UK's oldest transport companies, KNP Logistics Group, collapsed under the weight of a ransomware attack that began with a single guessed password. The company, founded in 1865 and known primarily through its “Knights of Old” fleet, had survived world wars, economic upheavals, and generational shifts in the freight industry. But it could not su...
How AGI tags help developers and players
Wednesday, August 6, 2025 by Richard Harris
The Microsoft Game Dev blog recently highlighted the launch of the Accessible Games Initiative (AGI), a collaborative effort led by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) and major industry players like Xbox, Electronic Arts, Google, Nintendo of America, and Ubisoft. The AGI introduces a set of standardized “tags” that clearly communicate the accessibi...
How Nightdive Studios is future-proofing the video game past
Tuesday, August 5, 2025 by Austin Harris
Video games are a form of art, and their preservation is in trusted hands at Atari’s Nightdive Studios, regarded as the premier game remastering studio in the industry. System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Edition recently launched on Xbox Series X|S, reviving a seminal sci-fi horror classic for a new generation. For Nightdive Studios, however, this release ...
The Wizard of Oz gets an AI makeover
Monday, August 4, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
One of the most iconic films in cinematic history, The Wizard of Oz, will debut in a way no one has ever seen before, on the colossal, wraparound LED screen of the Las Vegas Sphere. But this isn’t simply a high-resolution screening of the 1939 classic. Instead, it’s a groundbreaking AI-driven reinterpretation that transforms the viewing experience into somet...
DOGE API key leak
Wednesday, July 23, 2025 by Austin Harris
Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), inadvertently exposed a private API key for xAI, Musk’s artificial intelligence company, in a public GitHub repository over the weekend. The leak granted potential access to over 50 large language models (LLMs) developed by xAI, raising serious concerns about operat...
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...
Advancing Windows for AI development
Friday, June 13, 2025 by Richard Harris
At Build 2025, Microsoft reaffirmed its commitment to empowering the global developer community by showcasing new tools and capabilities designed to make Windows the ultimate development platform in the age of artificial intelligence. With a focus on flexibility, performance, and security, Windows continues to evolve into a powerful foundation for AI innovation, both on...
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...
COMPUTEX 2025 recap
Monday, May 26, 2025 by Richard Harris
At Computex 2025 in Taipei, ASUS delivered a powerful demonstration of its evolving philosophy, summarized by the theme “Ubiquitous AI. Incredible Possibilities.” The event served as a platform for ASUS to articulate how artificial intelligence is now foundational to every segment of its business, from high-performance computing infrastructure and creative 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...
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 ...
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 ...
AI will change your future
Tuesday, January 21, 2025 by Richard Harris
Artificial intelligence is here to stay, along with all its controversies, questions and ambiguity. It is rising in the workplace and changing the way we work. Many researchers have looked at potential downsides, but few have looked at the upsides.
We interviewed three Missouri University of Science and Technology faculty members with expertise in different ac...
NetLib Security predictions 2025
Thursday, January 2, 2025 by Richard Harris
The leading prediction for 2025 will sound familiar: Generative AI directly affects your privacy rights. In many ways, this is a twist on the typical cybersecurity problem. Rather than a hacker or a bad actor breaking in to steal your data, we are being asked to hand our keys to the companies we often trust the most: Microsoft, Apple, Dropbox, and Google!
NetLib Secu...
Combining sticky headers with full height elements
Friday, November 8, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
In the ever-evolving world of web design, creating interfaces that are both aesthetically pleasing and functionally robust is a constant challenge. One area that has proven particularly tricky is the combination of sticky headers with full-height elements. As Philip Braunen points out, "Sticky positioning is one of those CSS features that's pretty delicate and ...
Bottom-up design improves site accessibility
Tuesday, November 5, 2024 by Richard Harris
In the digital age, accessibility is a cornerstone of effective website design, ensuring that all users, regardless of their abilities, can navigate and interact with online content seamlessly. The adoption of a bottom-up design approach is gaining traction as a means to improve site accessibility, offering a more inclusive online experience. This method emphasizes atte...
Sony FavoriteSpace app launched for sports fans
Wednesday, September 4, 2024 by Austin Harris
Sony Group Corporation (Sony) recently launched FavoriteSpace, a new service designed to energize sports fan communities by offering new ways to enjoy sports. Making the most of Sony's technology and entertainment expertise, FavoriteSpace will deliver new sports content and create a social entertainment space where fans can share their passion for their favorites.
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PhishFlagger anti-phishing email solution released
Monday, August 19, 2024 by Austin Harris
PhishFlagger, a human-compatible patented phishing solution, recently announced its new patented anti-phishing email solution. The solution validates emails through a unique identifier protocol, PhishCounter, which adds a sequential number in the subject line that identifies all outgoing and inbound emails. The easily implemented system also allows recipients to identif...
How Cardano differs from other blockchain platforms
Friday, August 16, 2024 by Richard Harris
Pablo Antonio Bejarano, in a recent interview, highlighted Cardano's unique advantages as a blockchain platform. Known for its high decentralization, security, and scalability, Cardano is distinguished by its methodical, peer-reviewed approach and involvement from top industry experts, including Ethereum co-founder Charles Hoskinson.
How Cardano differs from othe...
Overcoming burnout in software QA with surfing
Friday, June 14, 2024 by Ramcham Floyd T. Gaid
Life has been changing and challenging as the future arises. Fear and anxiety is bringing risks to business owners, employees and to our families because of uncertainties of the future. With the technologies evolving rapidly with AI and the Cloud the Metaverse world becomes relevant in the near future. Life is supposed to be lived in happiness with a healthy lifestyle, ...
Buildbox 4 AI turns game ideas into reality faster than ever
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 by Austin Harris
Buildbox launches Buildbox 4, a new AI game engine that puts the power of game development in your hands, no matter your experience level. Simply enter your prompt to create and watch as the AI generates game assets, and entire scenes, and assists you in editing levels as you build out your game.
Turn your game ideas into reality faster than ever with Build...