Tiered offerings offer flexible web application and API protection, helping organizations consolidate, simplify, and scale security LevelBlue, a leading provider of managed security services, strategic consulting, and threat intelligence, today announced the launch of its Managed Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) security service, designed to deliver adaptive, always-on protection that can reduce risk and…
Large-language-model (LLM) tools now let engineers describe pipeline goals in plain English and receive generated code—a workflow dubbed vibe coding. Used well, it can accelerate prototyping and documentation. Used carelessly, it can introduce silent data corruption, security risks, or unmaintainable code. This article explains where vibe coding genuinely helps and where traditional engineering discipline remains…
In the domain of multimodal AI, instruction-based image editing models are transforming how users interact with visual content. Just released in August 2025 by Alibaba’s Qwen Team, Qwen-Image-Edit builds on the 20B-parameter Qwen-Image foundation to deliver advanced editing capabilities. This model excels in semantic editing (e.g., style transfer and novel view synthesis) and appearance editing…
Vizro is an open-source Python toolkit by McKinsey that makes it easy to build beautiful, production-ready data visualization apps. With just a few lines of configuration (via JSON, YAML, or Python dictionaries), you can create multi-page dashboards that would normally take thousands of lines of code. Built on top of Plotly, Dash, and Pydantic, Vizro…
You can write a technically perfect sentence and still have it fall flat. Why? Because perfection doesn’t always mean readability. Readers don’t want to wade through dense, jargon-packed paragraphs like they’re trudging through knee-deep snow. They want writing that flows—something that sounds like it was written for them. That’s where an AI readability checker can…
Anxiety is growing among Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) in security operation centres, particularly around Chinese AI giant DeepSeek. AI was heralded as a new dawn for business efficiency and innovation, but for the people on the front lines of corporate defence, it’s casting some very long and dark shadows. Four in five (81%) UK…
The artificial intelligence company Perplexity’s audacious offer to acquire Chrome has sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley, but questions remain about whether the move represents a genuine strategy or a calculated publicity stunt. Perplexity AI made an unsolicited $34.5 billion bid for Google’s Chrome browser last Tuesday, a figure that exceeds the startup’s own $18 billion…
PortSwigger’s Director of Research, James Kettle presents latest research at Black Hat USA / DEF CON 2025 PortSwigger, a renowned application security software provider, is issuing a bold challenge to the web security community: it’s time to retire HTTP/1.1 for good. At Black Hat USA and DEF CON, James Kettle, Director of Research at PortSwigger,…
New report reveals that organizations are generating up to 60% of code with AI coding assistants, despite the fact that 20% still forbid them Checkmarx, the leader in agentic AI-powered application security, today released the results of its annual survey titled “Future of Application Security in the Era of AI,” offering a candid assessment of…
LG Electronics just raised the bar for smart TVs by weaving in Cerence AI’s neural text-to-speech (TTS) tech—so users can now command, ask, and interact with their TV in human-like voices across 65 languages and dialects. This isn’t about gimmicks—it’s a shift toward a future where your living room screen listens and responds with personality….