Redwood Software, the Dutch-American enterprise automation firm that has quietly built one of the largest workload automation platforms in the world, is making a significant push into observability and analytics with the launch of Redwood Insights Premium and a new integration with SAP Cloud ALM.
ExpressVPN, one of the most recognized names in the virtual private network industry, has made two significant product announcements that together represent a strategic repositioning of the company within an increasingly competitive market. The provider has launched what it calls an industry-first hybrid VPN browser extension and, separately, introduced a dedicated application for Meta Quest virtual reality headsets. Both moves suggest that ExpressVPN is betting heavily on meeting users where they are — whether inside a browser tab or strapped into a VR headset.
For decades, independent filmmakers have scraped together budgets, called in favors, and assembled ragtag crews to bring their visions to life. The constraints were real—money, time, manpower—but so was the camaraderie. Now, artificial intelligence tools are dismantling those constraints one by one, promising a future where a single person can produce a feature film from a laptop. But as the barriers fall, so does something less tangible: the collaborative spirit that has long defined indie cinema.
OpenAI has a habit of making headlines with its blockbuster announcements — GPT-4o, the voice mode overhaul, the Sora video generator. But between those marquee launches, the company has been steadily shipping smaller updates to ChatGPT that have significant practical implications for the millions of people who use the tool daily. Several of these features arrived with little fanfare, buried in changelogs or rolled out gradually across user tiers, and many subscribers still don’t know they exist.
In a move that underscores the intensifying competition between Silicon Valley’s two most dominant consumer technology companies, Google has quietly released a camera application for the iPhone that, by several accounts, produces better photographs than Apple’s native Camera app. The app, called Google Camera, brings many of the computational photography techniques that have made Pixel phones famous to Apple’s hardware — and it raises pointed questions about whether Apple has been leaving image quality on the table.
For all the billions of dollars pouring into live sports streaming rights, one of the most glaring oversights in the industry has little to do with technology or bandwidth — it has to do with who the platforms think is watching. A recent analysis has spotlighted how YouTube TV, one of the fastest-growing live television alternatives in the United States, appears to systematically underserve women’s sports fans in its interface, recommendations, and promotional priorities.
Lucid Group Inc., the Newark, California-based electric vehicle maker backed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, announced on Thursday that it would eliminate approximately 12% of its global workforce as the company intensifies efforts to reach profitability amid a punishing market for EV startups. The layoffs, which affect roughly 750 to 800 employees based on the company’s most recently disclosed headcount figures, mark the latest in a series of painful cost-cutting measures at a company that has burned through billions of dollars since going public in 2021.
For the better part of a decade, OLED has reigned supreme in the premium display market. From flagship smartphones to high-end televisions, organic light-emitting diode technology has been the benchmark against which all other screens are measured. But a successor is emerging from the wings — one that promises to fix OLED’s most persistent shortcomings while delivering performance that was previously thought impossible.
A set of fraudulent browser extensions masquerading as Proton VPN — the privacy-focused service operated by Swiss-based Proton AG — recently appeared on the Chrome Web Store, raising fresh concerns about Google’s ability to police its own extension marketplace. The incident underscores a recurring vulnerability in the browser extension supply chain, one that has plagued users and security researchers for years despite repeated assurances from platform operators that safeguards are in place.
A sophisticated new scam campaign is exploiting the name recognition of Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence platform to trick cryptocurrency holders into surrendering their digital assets. The scheme, which has been spreading through email inboxes and social media channels, represents a troubling convergence of AI hype and financial fraud that security researchers say is growing more effective by the day.
