Kobo’s iOS app has been given a complete redesign, but I’d much rather the aging Elipsa 2E get an update
Kobo recently pushed out a fully redesigned reading app for iPhones Several new features have…
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, October 2025 Security Update Review
As cybersecurity threats evolve, Microsoft’s October 2025 Patch Tuesday delivers one of the most comprehensive security updates of the year. Here’s a quick breakdown of what you need to know. Microsoft Patch Tuesday for October 2025 This month’s release addresses a staggering 193 vulnerabilities, including nine critical and 123 important-severity vulnerabilities. In this month’s updates, Microsoft…
Medicare Beneficiaries Have 32 Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plans Available, on Average, for 2026
In anticipation of the Medicare annual open enrollment period, which runs from October 15 to December 7, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released information about Medicare Advantage plans for the coming year. News articles following the release of plan information report that Medicare Advantage insurers are scaling back their offerings in…
Microsoft Patch Tuesday October 2025
.NET Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability CVE-2025-55247 No No – – Important 7.3 6.4 .NET, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Information Disclosure Vulnerability CVE-2025-55248 No No – – Important 4.8 4.2…
Martian volcanoes may have transported ice to the planet’s equator
Ancient volcanic eruptions on Mars may have deposited ice at the planet’s equator RON MILLER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY The warmest parts of Mars host a strange, thick layer of ice beneath the surface, and we may have finally figured out how it got there. It might have been shifted from the inside of the planet by extraordinary…
How Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import streamlined LLM deployment for Salesforce
This post is cowritten by Salesforce’s AI Platform team members Srikanta Prasad, Utkarsh Arora, Raghav Tanaji, Nitin Surya, Gokulakrishnan Gopalakrishnan, and Akhilesh Deepak Gotmare. Salesforce’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform team runs customized large language models (LLMs)—fine-tuned versions of Llama, Qwen, and Mistral—for agentic AI applications like Agentforce. Deploying these models creates operational overheads: teams spend…
US retailers brace for impact as Trump’s 100% China tariffs loom
By Reuters Published October 14, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump‘s threat of additional 100% tariffs on Chinese imports has sounded alarm bells among retail and trade experts, who caution it could lead to more price increases and squeeze demand. Reuters The fresh levies, set to take effect November 1, would come as shoppers and retailers enter the…
‘Sovereign AI’ Has Become a New Front in the US-China Tech War
OpenAI has announced a number of projects this year with foreign governments to help build out what it has called their “sovereign AI” systems. The company says the deals, some of which are being coordinated with the US government, are part of a broader push to give national leaders more control over a technology that…
Build a device management agent with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has transformed how we interact with our environments, from homes to industrial settings. However, as the number of connected devices grows, so does the complexity of managing them. Traditional device management interfaces often require navigating through multiple applications, each with its own UI and learning curve. This…
Coach launches ‘Bag Man,’ a memoir by Lew Frankfort
Published October 14, 2025 “Bag Man: The Story Behind the Improbable Rise of Coach“, a new memoir by the brand’s Chairman Emeritus and former CEO, Lew Frankfort, officially launched on Tuesday. Coach launches ‘Bag Man,’ a memoir by Lew Frankfort. – Headshot Credit: Lisa Berg Published by Harvard Business Review Press, the book offers an…
The Trump Administration Executive Order on Gender Continues to Reverberate
Much has been written about the Trump Administration’s early effort to suppress data collection, presentation, and research related to LGBTQ – and particularly transgender – people’s health. A day one executive order (and subsequent HHS guidance and an OPM memorandum) on “gender ideology” laid out the administration’s approach to sex and gender, defining sex as…
