What families can do about AI voice-cloning scams this Thanksgiving
By Trevor Mahoney for PeopleWin AI has been developing at an unprecedented rate, but not all advancements are positive. Some scammers are incorporating it into their fraud tactics to try to swindle you out of your money.…
Why Awaiting an External API Inside a Database Transaction Will Exhaust Your Connection Pool
Why Awaiting an External API Inside a Database Transaction Will Exhaust Your Connection Pool While working on a Node.js backend that handled database transactions alongside third-party API integrations, I made an archite…
Why technology buyers are putting more emphasis on proof before making big investments
By Kara Rudy for MarketDesign Consulting Technology companies have spent years encouraging customers to move faster. Adopt the cloud. Modernize infrastructure. Strengthen cybersecurity. Automate operations. Experiment wi…
How to Track Service Image Updates and Version Drift
Keeping deployed application services aligned with upstream releases is a recurring maintenance challenge. When managing workloads defined in compose files or running on a local engine, teams frequently encounter silent …
What a GitHub Actions job costs on each runner: CI Bench v1 cost per job by workload
I maintain CI Bench, an open benchmark of GitHub Actions runners. I'm also the founder of Vitko, which sells one of the products measured (Vitko Runners, private beta). This post is about cost per job. A runner's list pr…
Delaware Small Business Content Marketing: Darling SEO Expands AI-Era Services
Darling SEO expands its content marketing service, helping small businesses create, repurpose, and distribute content across 300+ platforms to boost visibility in traditional search and AI-powered search tools like ChatG…
XCPE Botnet Hid in 1.3 Million Certified Android TV Boxes
Google dismantled the XCPE botnet hidden in 1.3 million certified set-top boxes, banned manufacturer Videostrong, and said the backdoor was built for profit. The post XCPE Botnet Hid in 1.3 Million Certified Android TV B…
Base64 in the Browser: UTF-8 Bytes, Padding and a Round Trip You Can Check
Base64 is not encryption, but the paste box still matters Base64 turns bytes into printable ASCII. It is an encoding, not encryption - anyone can decode what you encode - but the practical problem is the same: a lot of w…