After a tumultuous summer, history says we might be due for a rally into year-end. According to Ryan Detrick at the Carson Group, when stocks fall more than 1% in August and September, they usually see a bounce in October. Overall, software-as-a-service (SaaS) stocks have done well this year. And the outlook is still favorable…
Fostering the diversity of ideas emerging from countries with small populations like Australia can propel organic growth and progress innovation more rapidly than expected. One example of an innovation that progressed rapidly from ideation to commercialisation is a mango auto-harvester with a five-second return-cycle time that was developed by Central Queensland University (CQU) and Freelance…
A small manufacturing facility in Kirkland — a clean, high-tech, extensively automated operation — has begun to churn out aerospace parts with a workforce of just two people. Is that a bright vision of the future for a local industry that currently faces a severe labor shortage? Or a glimpse ahead to a largely peopleless…
Cloudflare, Google and AWS revealed on Tuesday that a new zero-day vulnerability named ‘HTTP/2 Rapid Reset’ has been exploited by malicious actors to launch the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in internet history. Cloudflare started analyzing the attack method and the underlying vulnerability in late August. The company says an unknown threat actor has exploited…
Bluesky, the Jack Dorsey-backed Twitter alternative, is getting its first third-party app for mobile users: a new app called Graysky. Though numerous Bluesky projects built on the company’s API are already in the works or in testing, Graysky will be the first to ship to the App Store, where it’s now available for preorder with…
If someone told me, a couple of weeks prior, that I would be taking pictures of everything that crossed my path, I would have laughed in their face. But there I was, sitting on the sidewalk, looking to capture the perfect shot that would allow me to learn a little more about the world I…
In our modern digital landscape, the term “cloud watcher” takes on a new and fascinating meaning. Gone are the days of gazing up at the sky in search of clouds; now, we’re witnessing a technological revolution in the form of cloud computing. Welcome to a world where the virtual and the tangible merge, where the…
While ChatGPT and other large language model (LLM) applications are either praised as the next “greatest thing since sliced bread” or vilified as the potential destructor of the economy, two University of California, Berkeley, professors and an AI developer are putting the technology to practical use by enhancing cybersecurity automation with natural language queries and…
