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...
Groq launches compound GA to power higher-quality, more affordable AI
Monday, October 20, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
Groq has announced the general availability of Compound, its agentic AI system, on GroqCloud. The system is designed to provide developers with a production-grade platform capable of conducting research, executing code, controlling web browsers, and delivering answers efficiently.
Improved performance and accuracy
The production release of Compound demonstrates si...
Introducing capn web a new javascript rpc protocol
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
A new Remote Procedure Call (RPC) protocol and implementation named Cap'n Web has been introduced, written entirely in TypeScript. Designed as a spiritual sibling to Cap'n Proto, this new system is engineered specifically for the modern web stack. Cap'n Web distinguishes itself by having no schemas and minimal boilerplate, which simplifies setup and integrat...
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...
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...
Clean architecture development for mobile
Tuesday, August 26, 2025 by Austin Harris
According to Netguru, consumer spending on mobile applications is projected to reach $288 billion in 2025, growing to approximately $626.4 billion by 2030. In such a highly competitive and fast-paced environment - particularly in regulated industries like fintech, healthcare, and insurance - architectural mistakes are costly. They result not only in bugs and technical d...
Why SLOs are a key tool
Monday, August 18, 2025 by Austin Harris
Modern digital products now operate at scales that would have seemed impossible just a decade ago. YouTube processes over 500 hours of video every minute, Amazon processes around 12 million orders each day, and large cloud platforms and advertising systems serve billions of real-time requests.
At this level, a failure is a business risk, a user experience problem, an...
Wayback 0.1 released
Wednesday, August 13, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
The development team behind Wayback has announced the first preview release of version 0.1, marking a significant milestone in its journey toward becoming a full Xorg replacement. Wayback is a compatibility layer for X11 that enables the operation of traditional, X11-only desktop environments under Wayland. Functioning as an X11 server backed by Wayland, it leverages wl...
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...
Simple rules to fix code reviews
Tuesday, August 12, 2025 by Richard Harris
In a software development landscape increasingly augmented by AI-generated code, code reviews remain a critical safeguard for quality, collaboration, and team coherence. Yet despite decades of collective experience, code reviews often become inefficient bottlenecks. Sergey Tselovalnikov, a seasoned engineer, proposes that we don’t need more checklists or “be...
Microsoft SharePoint hit by widespread zero-day attacks
Wednesday, July 30, 2025 by Austin Harris
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has reported active exploitation of a newly identified remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability affecting on-premise Microsoft SharePoint servers. The vulnerability, cataloged as CVE-2025-53770, is a variant of the previously known CVE-2025-49706 and presents significant risks to organizations by enabling unau...
OpenAI Codex overview
Thursday, July 17, 2025 by Austin Harris
OpenAI recently announced the launch of Codex, a cloud-based software engineering agent capable of handling multiple tasks simultaneously. Codex assists with writing features, answering questions about codebases, fixing bugs, and proposing pull requests for review, all within individual cloud sandbox environments preloaded with user repositories.
OpenAI Codex overvie...
Swift Project Launches Android Workgroup
Monday, July 14, 2025 by Austin Harris
The Swift programming language community has announced the formation of the Android Workgroup, a new initiative dedicated to making Android an officially supported platform for Swift. This landmark development marks a significant step forward in Swift's evolution as a truly cross-platform language for modern software development.
Swift Project Launches Android Wo...
Gemini CLI brings Gemini directly into developers terminals
Sunday, July 13, 2025 by Austin Harris
Free and open source, Gemini CLI brings Gemini directly into developers’ terminals with unmatched access for individuals. For developers, the command line interface (CLI) is not just a tool; it is home. The terminal’s efficiency, ubiquity, and portability make it the go-to utility for getting work done. As developers' reliance on the terminal endures, so...
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...
CodeRabbit now available on Visual Studio Code
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 by Richard Harris
CodeRabbit is now available on the popular Visual Studio Code editor. The integration brings CodeRabbit’s AI code reviews directly into Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code at the earliest stages of software development—inside the code editor itself - at no cost to the developers.
This new support enhances CodeRabbit’s multi-layered review approach: contin...
Vibe Coding: Revolution or risk
Monday, May 5, 2025 by Richard Harris
A new buzzword has entered the software development lexicon: "AI Vibe Coding." Popularized in early 2025 by AI researcher Andrej Karpathy, vibe coding refers to a coding approach where developers essentially "go with the flow" of AI code suggestions, providing only loose guidance or high-level vibes of what they want. In theory, you describe the feat...
AI no-code web app launched by Hostinger
Thursday, March 20, 2025 by Richard Harris
Hostinger is globally launching its AI-powered no-code web app solution, Hostinger Horizons. This new product unlocks web app creation for businesses and individuals with great ideas but no coding skills to bring them to life.
Unlike other AI-powered coding tools, Hostinger Horizons does not require third-party connections to publish and host web apps. With just a fe...
Alexa transforms personalized AI says GlobalData
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 by Richard Harris
Amazon's unveiling of Alexa+ has ignited significant discussion among social media influencers in the last week of February 2025. The rollout, promising enhanced personalization, context awareness, and agentic actions, has been met with both excitement and reservations. Influencers see that the enhanced Alexa+ has the potential to be a game-changer in providing ...
Origination to distribution technology launched by 129Knots
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 by Richard Harris
Global fintech venture 129Knots has launched with a $10 million investment led by Sing Fuels. Backed by a $500 million deal pipeline, it is set to revolutionize the industry with its real-world asset origination to distribution (OTD) technology.
The OTD technology will reinvent deep-tier industries by delivering and deploying scalable liquidity solutions through secu...
Network API development in 2025
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 by Mikko Jarva
There is a shift occurring in the telecommunications sector as network operators develop network-as-a-service (NaaS) offers—essentially, offering the extensive capabilities of their wide-area wired and wireless networks as programmable platforms to support public cloud and private enterprise applications.
How a holistic approach can drive higher-value net...
Developers threatened by DOJ proposals says Google
Monday, October 21, 2024 by Richard Harris
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has shared a broad outline of radical changes it may demand as part of its lawsuit regarding search distribution. This marks the beginning of a lengthy process, and Google plans to respond in detail to the DOJ's ultimate proposals as it prepares its case in court next year. However, concerns have arisen that the DOJ is signaling ...
OpenAI model safety improved with rule-based rewards
Thursday, August 15, 2024 by Austin Harris
OpenAI has developed a new method, Rule-Based Rewards (RBRs), to align AI models with safe behaviors, reducing the need for extensive human data collection. This method enhances the reliability and safety of AI systems, making them more dependable for both everyday use and development purposes.
OpenAI model safety improved with rule-based rewards
Traditionally, en...
AWS introduces Mithra advanced threat intelligence neural network
Thursday, August 15, 2024 by Austin Harris
In a recent blog post from AWS, Amazon Chief Information Security Officer CJ Moses detailed the robust threat intelligence capabilities that safeguard AWS customers. Through tools like Mithra and MadPot, AWS collects and analyzes vast data, identifying and neutralizing threats with unparalleled accuracy and speed. AWS's proactive approach to sharing high-fidelity th...
AI models are rapidly consuming power
Thursday, June 13, 2024 by Austin Harris
AI and machine learning models, like ChatGPT, require a large amount of power due to the intensive processing involved. ChatGPT handles 200 million requests daily, consuming over 500,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity – 17,000 times higher than the average daily consumption of a U.S. household, of 29 kilowatt-hours.
AI models use extensive data for training, and...
API security risks report exposes Netflix and Wordpress
Monday, November 27, 2023 by Richard Harris
Wallarm, the end-to-end API and app security company, announced the release of its Q3-2023 Wallarm API ThreatStats report. The quarterly report details the surge in threats centered around APIs and uncovers critical vulnerabilities, like injections and API data leaks, that have recently impacted leading firms, including Netflix, VMware, and SAP.
The new report i...
API management capabilities from Traefik Labs
Monday, November 13, 2023 by Richard Harris
Traefik Labs, the creator of Traefik Proxy, the ingress controller with more than 3 billion downloads, announced that they added new capabilities to Traefik Hub, the Kubernetes native and GitOps-driven Application Programming Interface (API) management solution. This latest update modernizes API runtime operations for platform teams that frequently encounter change...
You can now use Google Clouds BigQuery with Velotix
Monday, October 30, 2023 by Richard Harris
Velotix announced an integration with Google Cloud’s BigQuery, a serverless enterprise data warehouse, to provide AI-driven data protection and access management for sensitive data stored in Google Cloud. The Velotix data security platform governs and controls compliant access to data throughout the data access lifecycle to provide maximum data utilization wi...
Deploy AI apps in less than 10 clicks with the Klu platform
Friday, October 27, 2023 by Richard Harris
Klu, the large language model (LLM) application platform for building, evaluating and optimizing AI applications, has raised a $1.7 million pre-seed funding round led by Firstminute Capital.
Scouts from top venture capital firms including a16z, Sequoia Capital, Craft Ventures, and Atomico also participated alongside angel investors from Superhuman, IBM, Productboard,...
Web3 ID to boost online security from Concordium
Wednesday, September 13, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger
Concordium has announced the release of Web3 ID, a blockchain-native identity platform with programmable privacy for individuals and organizations. Web3 ID allows digital identity holders to issue Zero-Knowledge-Proofs to dApps while allowing dApps to seamlessly request proof of user identity. This empowers individuals and businesses with complete control over thei...
Digital concierge app powered by GPT redefines luxury lifestyles
Monday, June 26, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger
Perfect.Live announced that they raised $650,000 in a recent investment round. The funding is used to further develop and enhance their innovative GPT-powered concierge service, catering to individuals who seek access to exclusive services, and eliminating the time-consuming manual tasks like phone calls and emails, which are often hindered by the lack of available...
Generative AI virtual agent from Serviceaide
Wednesday, May 24, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger
Serviceaide, Inc. has announced its AI-Everywhere Luma Virtual Agent and AI-based solutions. Integrating Generative AI, Luma 3.0 provides a quantum leap in efficiency, productivity, cost reduction, and business process innovation. Luma provides the benefits of Generative AI with nothing extra to buy, it’s built into our technology core to improve all service manag...
Code editor and AI features coming to GameMaker engine
Thursday, May 11, 2023 by Richard Harris
GameMaker, the multimillion downloaded 2D game development engine, has revealed which new features and enhancements will be coming to the platform this year, in its annual update announcement.
GameMaker’s new features roadmap is shaped almost entirely by requests and feedback from its highly engaged community, with a new code editor, enhanced modding capabiliti...
eBPF Observability Agent Flora lands from groundcover
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger
groundcover recently introduced Flora, a newly released eBPF-based observability agent that was built with a strict performance mindset - promising full observability at high scales while costing next to zero overhead. Flora has dramatically outperformed all leading observability platforms such as Datadog, OpenTelemetry, and New Relic’s modern eBPF solution -...
Oxeye discovers vulnerability in HashiCorp Vault Project
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 by Austin Harris
Oxeye announced the discovery of a new vulnerability in the HashiCorp Vault Project that has now been patched. HashiCorp Vault is a popular identity-based secret and encryption management system used to control access to API encryption keys, passwords, and certificates. The vulnerability was automatically discovered and reported by the Oxeye Platform during a deployment...
