Financial services firms are no strangers to cyberattacks, often facing some of the most expensive consequences. In 2024, the average cost of a data breach in the financial industry worldwide was $6.08 million, while the global average cost of a data breach across all studied industries was $4.88 million. The growth of Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) has…
While many boardrooms buzz with excitement about AI, cloud migration, and digital transformation, the reality on the ground tells us a different story. The gap between strategic vision and technical execution is widening, creating what we call the “last mile problem”, where promising technologies fail when they meet the messy reality of legacy systems, data…
In this tutorial, I explored MongoDB, a NoSQL database, to learn how to store, query, and analyze data. I worked with a sample dataset of business reviews and performed common operations like insertion, aggregation, search, update, and deletion. Step 1: Setup MongoDB: I installed MongoDB Compass and connected to my local database. Here’s how the…
Here’s a quick question for you: Why do you love Google Chrome ? If you’re like me, one reason might be the little dinosaur game that pops up when the internet goes down. Honestly, that game has made my days of poor connection more bearable. Recently, I started wondering what it would take to build…
In this technical blog post, I’ll walk through how to build an AI agent that combines the flexibility of Haystack’s agent framework with the privacy benefits of self-hosted LLMs through Gaia Node. This solution gives you the best of both worlds: sophisticated tool-using capabilities with complete control over your infrastructure. What We’re Building Our example…
Intel staff records leaked through login flaws, exposing sensitive company information A single manipulated portal exposed over 270,000 Intel employee details Hardcoded credentials on internal portals raised serious security concerns Sensitive information about every Intel employee was reportedly available to anyone able to exploit weaknesses in the firm’s internal sites, an expert has claimed. Security…
YouTube has admitted to digitally polishing creators’ Shorts without their knowledge, following a growing wave of creator confusion that led to accusations of AI interference ruining videos. The company claimed to have been “experimenting” with subtle machine learning enhancements on select Shorts videos. The tweaks are supposed to improve the videos’ clarity, but were made…
Sharp’s upcoming AI companion Poketomo is a palm-sized, meerkat-shaped robot with a glowing belly Poketomo is designed to provide emotional support, especially for women in their 20s and 30s It combines cute design with conversational AI and syncs with a smartphone app to maintain a continuous relationship Japanese consumer tech brand Sharp thinks it has…
It’s everywhere, it’s eating up every other dev topic debate: learn to dev with AI or you’ll be replaced. As a dev, I can’t help but feel threatened by these claims. Way more than I should. I mean, I love hacking around with the new cool toy as much as anybody. I use code assistants all…
