ChatGPT Carbon Footprint Matches 1.3 Million Cars Report Finds
Monday, April 6, 2026 by Ben Conway
A new independent analysis takes a closer look at the electricity use and environmental impact tied to one of the most widely used conversational AI tools. The findings suggest that serving today’s massive volume of daily prompts now requires energy on the scale of a small nation, with emissions comparable to a large fleet of vehicles.
The report breaks down ho...
Lens Launches MCP Server to Connect AI Coding Assistants with Kubernetes
Tuesday, March 31, 2026 by Ben Conway
Lens by Mirantis announces a built in Model Context Protocol server in Lens Desktop, expanding how teams connect AI coding assistants to Kubernetes in a secure and straightforward way. The addition makes Lens a practical bridge between popular AI tools and real infrastructure, so software delivery and operations tasks can be handled within existing workflows rather than...
Agentic AI disruption of the dev workflow
Tuesday, December 16, 2025 by Richard Harris
As a lifelong programmer, I find myself living in two worlds at once: one where AI has become an essential co-pilot in my daily work, and another where its limitations still remind me who’s actually steering the ship. Every day I see firsthand how machine learning models and coding assistants can accelerate development, generate insights, and even spark creativity...
Google Maps builder agent simplifies AI driven map creation
Monday, November 10, 2025 by Richard Harris
Google Maps Platform has unveiled a suite of artificial intelligence products and developer tools designed to streamline the creation of mapping and location-based applications. The new offerings, powered by Google’s Gemini models, help businesses and developers build faster, smarter, and more intuitively by connecting their AI systems directly with real-world geo...
On device AI for seamless offline experiences with embeddinggemma
Thursday, October 30, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
Google has unveiled EmbeddingGemma, an advanced open embedding model designed to bring sophisticated artificial intelligence capabilities directly to user devices, operating entirely offline. Part of Google’s open Gemma family, this innovative model is engineered to transform how phones, laptops, and desktops handle complex AI tasks, emphasizing user privacy and o...
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...
Descope to host Global MCP Hackathon
Thursday, October 16, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
Descope is launching the Global MCP Hackathon, a worldwide developer event focused on building secure, identity-aware AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. The competition spans from August 12 through September 10, with the winners announced later that month. Offering more than $100,000 in cash prizes and developer credits, the event brings together develo...
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...
Tiledmedia unveils how a durable cross-platform player fuels streaming
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 by Richard Harris
Tiledmedia is using IBC 2025 (Stand 5.F83) to demonstrate how its pioneering Tiledmedia Player helps service providers launch innovations faster, reap transformative return on technology investment, and deliver loyalty-generating viewer experiences.
This September in Amsterdam, the company will reveal the Tiledmedia Player’s full set of capabilities that c...
Intel's first chip made on its new manufacturing tech
Monday, October 13, 2025 by Trey Abbe
Intel has unveiled key details about its upcoming Panther Lake laptop processor, marking the first chip built using the company’s next-generation 18A manufacturing process. The launch is seen as a significant test of Intel’s ability to scale its new production technology and regain market share in the PC industry.
System-on-chip design and performance gai...
Ad tech antitrust trial begins as Google seeks to avoid breakup
Wednesday, October 8, 2025 by Richard Harris
Alphabet’s Google is facing a U.S. antitrust trial in Alexandria, Virginia, that could determine whether the company must sell part of its online advertising business. The Department of Justice (DOJ) and a coalition of states are seeking to limit Google’s control over its ad exchange, AdX, which facilitates automated online advertising auctions for publisher...
OpenAI open weight models released for optimized laptop performance
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 by Austin Harris
OpenAI has released two open-weight language models designed to operate efficiently on laptops and personal computers. These models are intended to provide advanced reasoning capabilities while allowing developers greater flexibility through local deployment and fine-tuning. Unlike proprietary models, open-weight models provide public access to trained parameters, enabl...
Push for FTC to Investigate Microsoft
Monday, September 22, 2025 by Austin Harris
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden has formally requested the Federal Trade Commission to examine Microsoft for what he describes as significant cybersecurity shortcomings. The request cites repeated security incidents and raises questions about the company’s role in safeguarding critical infrastructure.
Senator highlights cybersecurity risks
In a letter addressed to FT...
Vibecoding goes from hobby to business
Thursday, September 11, 2025 by Austin Harris
RevenueCat, said to be the platform powering in-app purchases for more than 50,000 apps, looks to have become a common platform for transforming vibecoded apps into revenue-generating businesses. As vibecoders look to uplevel their AI-built apps from passion projects to money-making ventures, RevenueCat is enabling them to charge for in-app experiences through subscript...
Omniverse robotics tools launched by NVIDIA
Tuesday, September 2, 2025 by Richard Harris
NVIDIA recently announced new NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and NVIDIA Cosmos world foundation models (WFMs) that accelerate the development and deployment of robotics solutions.
Powered by new NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers and NVIDIA DGX Cloud, the libraries and models let developers anywhere develop physically accurate digital twins, capture and reconstruct the real wo...
Cracking the live ops code
Monday, August 25, 2025 by Austin Harris
Sensor Tower recently released a report called Cracking the Live Ops Code: How Mobile Games Can Leverage Live Ops Insights, following its acquisition of Playliner, a company focused on live ops intelligence. This report combines app analytics, event data, and revenue trends to offer a clearer look at what’s really happening in the world of mobile game monetization...
GitHub Copilot surpasses 20M users
Monday, August 18, 2025 by Austin Harris
Microsoft Corporation wrapped up its fiscal year 2025 on an exceptionally strong note, delivering robust growth across cloud, AI, productivity, and consumer services. The tech giant reported a 24% year-over-year jump in net income for the fourth quarter, amounting to $27.2 billion, while revenue for the same period reached $76.4 billion, an 18% increase. These results u...
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...
WebGPU in iOS 26
Wednesday, August 6, 2025 by Austin Harris
While much of the attention surrounding iOS 26 focused on Apple’s new “glass” UI system and enhanced lock screen, a more profound change quietly reshaped the technological landscape for developers and creatives. iOS 26 introduces full WebGPU support, a move that completes a long-standing puzzle in browser-based media and AI processing, and enables a ne...
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...
CoinDCX launches bounty after security breach
Friday, August 1, 2025 by Richard Harris
CoinDCX, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in India, has issued an official statement following a sophisticated security incident on July 19, 2025, which affected one of its internal operational accounts used solely for liquidity provisioning on a partner exchange. The company emphasized that no customer funds were impacted and that all assets remain secure in...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
New Developer Features in Oracle 23.7
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 by Austin Harris
Oracle Corporation recently announced the general availability of Oracle Database 23.7, a release that delivers several new features specifically designed to improve developer productivity, simplify data handling, and accelerate performance across diverse workloads.
New Developer Features in Oracle 23.7: Highlights
This latest update reflects Oracle’s contin...
How 27 programming languages differ in energy consumption
Monday, July 14, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
A research team from Portugal has conducted a comprehensive study analyzing how different programming languages impact energy consumption, execution time, and memory usage. Their findings were published in the paper Energy Efficiency Across Programming Languages, as reported by technology news outlet The New Stack.
The Most Energy-Efficient Programming Languages Reve...
Vector Indexing for AI-powered search
Tuesday, July 8, 2025 by Richard Harris
Harper, bringing next-level web performance to a digital-first world, recently announced the release of version 4.6 of its composable application platform. The latest release features several enterprise-grade components to improve performance and maximize revenue at any scale, chief among them the addition of vector indexing for the efficient storing and retrieving of h...
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...
iOS sleep app leaked sensitive user information
Tuesday, May 27, 2025 by Austin Harris
An iPhone app designed to combat insomnia, Sleep Journey: Insomnia Helper, exposed tens of thousands of users, revealing their names, alcohol habits, and other private data.
Stress is hardly a cure for insomnia. Meanwhile, an iOS app meant to help users fall asleep could become a headache instead. The Cybernews research team discovered that Sleep Journey: Insomnia He...
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...
Unlock real AI agent experiences through Claude
Monday, May 12, 2025 by Richard Harris
Cloudflare, Inc., the connectivity cloud company, recently announced a wave of global technology companies, including Asana, Atlassian, Block, PayPal, Sentry, Stripe, and more, are working with Cloudflare to create powerful AI experiences through Anthropic’s AI assistant, Claude. These software companies are enabling Claude and other AI assistants to securely inte...
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...
Gemini API powered Android apps
Tuesday, October 22, 2024 by Richard Harris
With the rise of Generative AI, Android developers now have access to capabilities that were once out of reach. These advancements, such as the ability to add image captioning without needing specialized computer vision knowledge, are now within reach for app creators.
Gemini API powered Android apps
In the coming weeks, the stable version of Vertex AI will be lau...
