Enterprise data used to center on a single core platform. Usually, it was the ERP system backed by relational databases. Vendors competed on query speed, storage efficiency and architectural improvements. The standard path forward was to pick the best platform and standardize around it — but that no longer works.After years of cloud adoption, hybrid environments, regulatory pressure, cost scrutiny and now AI-driven workloads, no single platform can support the entire enterprise on its own. What defines a modern enterprise data platform is no longer just its technical performance, no matter how good it is. Rather, it is the strength…
An interesting start to the week for WhatsApp. Just hours after Telegram’s Pavel Durov warned that Meta’s messenger has “multiple attack vectors,” comes a report that Google has found a serious WhatsApp vulnerability that “opens up (an) attack surface.”Any warning from Google’s Project Zero threat hunters is taken seriously. This…
According to genetic evidence published in a 2023 study from Science, our ancestors experienced an extreme population bottleneck around 900,000 years ago. This means just over a thousand breeding individuals persisted for more than 100,000 years. If true, this would’ve been one of the most severe population crashes ever inferred…
The weekend is here. Huzzah! It looks like we’re going to get snow this weekend, but I won’t believe it until I see the white fluffy stuff on the ground. At least it’s not supposed to be too terribly cold. A friend of mine sent a screenshot of the temperature…
Your iPhone does so much, from surfing the web, to offering games and banking apps, that sometimes smaller details can slip through the cracks. If one of those details is the rather important one of the alarm clock and it has mysteriously gone silent, you’re not alone. Some users have…
Shutting down during conflict is a habit that often goes misunderstood because it’s usually confused with weakness, indifference or an avoidance tactic. In reality, however, it is usually a stress response.Many people who shut down care deeply about the conversation or event that’s causing them to close up. And like…
Key TakeawaysGoogle Photos is testing a new “Optimize backup for battery life” featureThe app can currently cause significant battery drain in the backgroundThe feature is under development with no set release dateJan 20 Update below: This article was originally published on Jan 17Your smartphone works hard when shooting photos and…
WhatsApp is about to introduce a major new capability, it’s reported and it will finally allow users of the WhatsApp web app to take part in voice and video calls. The report comes from the authoritative WhatsApp watcher, WABetaInfo, which cautions that the new features are not quite live yet,…
Updated on Jan. 18 with a new warning for Gmail users as an attack is confirmed underway, tricking users into changing their email addresses to hijack accounts.Google has just changed Gmail after twenty years. In among countless AI upgrades — including “personalized AI” that gives Gemini access to all your…
For decades, humans have assumed that recognizing faces, especially our own faces, is a task that requires a large, complex brain. It’s also why animals like primates and birds are central in conversations about intelligence. Fish, on the other hand, are usually dismissed as instinct-driven and forgettable. However, there’s one…
At the 2026 CES Jensen Huang made many announcements associated with the introduction of Nvidia’s Rubin Vera AI architecture and the various open-source AI foundational models that the company created for various applications, including Alpamayo for automotive. One interesting announcement from NVIDIA was about an Inference Context Memory Storage Platform…
Thanks to Chance Mathisen for his contributionIn the current wave of generative AI innovation, industries that live in documents and text — legal, healthcare, customer support, sales, marketing — have been riding the crest. The technology transformed legal workflows overnight, and companies like Harvey and OpenEvidence scaled to roughly $100M…
Updating your operating system has never been more vital, given the number of critical security vulnerabilities being fixed across iOS, macOS, and, of course, Windows right now. The very last thing anyone needs to read is a confirmation from Microsoft that yet another Windows security update has broken stuff. This…
Updated December 12 with further technical details regarding the Shai-Hulud 2.0 Dune Worm attacks, alongside original reporting of the Microsoft mitigation recommendations for rapid credentials rotation and replacement.In response to what the Microsoft Defender Security Research Team has called “one of the most significant cloud-native ecosystem compromises observed recently,” it…
WiiM seems to be one of the fastest-growing audio brands with a never-ending schedule of product releases in 2025. The global technology company makes a range of affordable audio products with an emphasis on streaming music all around the home. Now the company has announced the WiiM Sound Lite, a…
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Google announced an update to its QuickShare feature and it’s one that…
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