As engineers and managers, we all have been interrupted by those unplanned, time-sensitive requests (or tasks) that arrive outside normal planning cadences. An “urgent” Slack, a last-minute requirement or an exec ask is enough to nuke your standard agile rituals. Apart from randomizing your sprint, it causes thrash for existing projects and leads to developer

If you were around for the first big wave of cloud adoption, you’ll remember how quickly the term cloud was pasted on everything. Anything with an IP address and a data center suddenly became a cloud. Vendors rebranded hosted services, managed infrastructure, and even traditional outsourcing as cloud computing. Many enterprises convinced themselves they had

When Austria’s Ministry of Economy, Energy, and Tourism set out to replace Skype for Business as its virtual meeting platform, Microsoft Teams was the obvious choice. The newer collaboration app is already used across other ministries, and it was widely  assumed that the Ministry of Economy would follow suit. “From a management perspective, the path

Recently, Mozilla’s new CEO Anthony Enzor-DeMeo promised that Firefox will be a “modern AI browser,” which attracted a lot of attention. Fortunately, users who are not interested in the AI features will be able to turn it all off. – There will be an option in Firefox to disable all AI features. We’ve internally called

Google is now suing US data scraping company Serpapi for using hundreds of millions of fake search queries to bypass Google’s protection system and illegally obtain copyrighted material from search results, Reuters reports. According to the lawsuit, Serpapi then resold the collected data to third-party customers. The company denies the allegations and says it will

Something that appears to have started earlier than ever before, Apple is allegedly already test manufacturing of the next model of its basic smartphone, the iPhone 18. This news follows speculation from multiple sources, including legendary Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who said, “Apple is expected to begin trial production of the iPhone 18 series in January, which

For large retailers, the challenge with AI isn’t whether it can be useful, but how it fits into everyday work. A new three-year AI partnership by Tesco points to how one of the UK’s biggest supermarket groups is trying to achieve just that. Tesco plans to work with Mistral to develop AI tools that can

As businesses move from AI experimentation to real business impact, governed knowledge foundations are becoming the backbone of confidence, control, and productivity at scale iManage, the company dedicated to Making Knowledge Work, today announced continued global momentum as organizations increasingly recognize that artificial intelligence (AI) delivers value only when built on governed, trustworthy information. As

StackGen Named a Cool Vendor for AI in IT Operations – we believe recognition of Stackgen’s Autonomous Infrastructure Platform highlights the AI-Driven transformation of infrastructure automation and developer experience. StackGen today announced it has been named a Cool Vendor in the 2025 Gartner Cool Vendor for AI in IT Operations.1 StackGen’s Autonomous Infrastructure Platform (AIP) enables

If you want to know what is actually happening in generative AI—not what vendors pretend in their press releases, but what developers are actually building—Datasette founder Simon Willison gets you pretty close to ground truth. As Willison has been cataloguing for years on his blog, we keep making the same key mistake building with AI