Whether it’s during my time testing TVs at TechRadar or back in my AV retail days, one aspect of TVs I like to explore thoroughly is the smart TV platform, also known as the Operating System (OS). The best TVs not only deliver great picture and sound quality (although great TV sound is a bit…
Insurance giant AFLAC confirms it has been hit with a cyberattack The attack looks to have been by notorious Scattered Spider group Increasingly infamous group targeted multiple UK retailers earlier in 2025 AFLAC (American Family Life Assurance Company), has confirmed in a statement it has suffered a cyber ‘incident’ in which hackers intruded into its…
Serving static files—like CSS, JavaScript, images, or fonts—is a basic requirement for any web application. Even in a minimal Python framework, you can add support for static file delivery with only a few lines of code. Why Serve Static Files Static assets are essential for rendering pages and enhancing UX. Without them, even the most…
A while back, I wrote a blog post about building an AI resume matcher using a RAG approach with Java and Google Vertex AI. I originally built a RAG-based AI to match resumes against job postings using a vector store. It was a fantastic project, but it got me thinking: how could this be even…
The Nothing brand is just a few years old, yet it’s already making a mark on the smartphone world, with distinctive Android phones that look like nothing else on the market. The Nothing Phone 2 is the latest flagship from the company, but while it impresses from a design perspective, it’s not a home run…
You’re deep in the zone. Code flows from your fingers. The architecture makes perfect sense. Then your calendar notification pings: “Daily standup in 5 minutes.” Your mental model of the system collapses like a house of cards. This scenario plays out thousands of times daily across development teams worldwide. The tension between necessary collaboration and…
In SQL, JOIN refers to the function that combines two or more tables to retrieve data as a single result set. Since databases are typically designed with data separated into multiple tables for better organization and management, JOIN is essential for merging this data to derive meaningful information. It allows efficient querying based on the…
🤖 In our last article, we mastered Custom Types, creating a safety net for our test data. We learned how to define the exact shape of our data payloads and API responses. Now, it’s time to build the structure that will house our test logic: the Page Object Model (POM). Think of it like this:…
**This is a python script that will generate password use statistics from password hashes dumped from a domain controller and a password crack file such as hashcat.potfile generated from the Hashcat tool during password cracking. The report is an HTML report with clickable links. A full video tutorial and demo can be viewed here: You…
