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As a UX professional in today’s data-driven landscape, it’s increasingly likely that you’ve been asked to design a personalized digital experience, whether it’s a public website, user portal, or native application. Yet while there continues to be no shortage of marketing hype around personalization platforms, we still have very few standardized approaches for implementing personalized UX. Article Continues Below That’s where we come in. After completing dozens of personalization projects over the past few years, we gave ourselves a goal: could you create a holistic personalization framework specifically for UX practitioners? The Personalization Pyramid is a designer-centric model for standing…
We’re three years into a post-ChatGPT world, and AI remains the focal point of the tech industry. In 2025, several ongoing trends intensified: AI investment accelerated; enterprises integrated agents and workflow automation at a faster pace; and the toolscape for professionals seeking a career edge is now overwhelmingly expansive. But the jury’s still out on the ROI from the vast sums that have saturated the industry. We anticipate that 2026 will be a year of increased accountability. Expect enterprises to shift focus from experimentation to measurable business outcomes and sustainable AI costs. There are promising productivity and efficiency gains to be…
Erik Avakian, technical counselor at Info-Tech Research Group, explained why this is an issue. “There’s a critical flaw in the management server in how one of its background services handles certain types of network messages that allows an attacker on the network to run their own code without logging in. That service will accept a message from anyone on the network and then can blindly load a Windows DLL using a standard Windows function. The problem is that the software doesn’t properly validate where that DLL is coming from.” When this happens, he said, the affected software will run the…
Artificial intelligence has captured headlines recently for its rapidly growing energy demands, and particularly the surging electricity usage of data centers that enable the training and deployment of the latest generative AI models. But it’s not all bad news — some AI tools have the potential to reduce some forms of energy consumption and enable cleaner grids.One of the most promising applications is using AI to optimize the power grid, which would improve efficiency, increase resilience to extreme weather, and enable the integration of more renewable energy. To learn more, MIT News spoke with Priya Donti, the Silverman Family Career Development Professor in the…
Hackathons are different!. The good ones pull you in, stretch your thinking, and leave you with something real—regardless of the outcome. The problem is choice. It’s hard to find the right one! Too many hackathons. Too many formats. And too much noise. So this list is built with that in mind. Instead out outlining Hackathons that might expire any minute, it lists the top 10 places where you can look for Hackathons depending upon your requirement—money, name, game. Pick the one that best suits your interests. 1. For the Popular Hackathons Devpost | Creativity-first, competitive building Devpost hackathons reward creativity…
In my last two blogs, I delved into the results of the 2025 Cisco Segmentation Report to highlight the importance of macro- and micro-segmentation and to identify the primary challenges hindering segmentation journeys. Today, I dive further into the survey results to discuss the benefits organizations can achieve when they successfully implement a dual macro- and micro-approach to segmentation. The goal, of course, is to continue highlighting insights into the current state of this critical cybersecurity concept and where it may be headed in the future. Three Benefits of a Successful Segmentation Strategy The good news is that the survey…
This week in scams, the biggest threats showed up as routine security messages, viral consumer “warnings,” and AI-generated content that blended seamlessly into platforms people already trust. Every week, we bring you a roundup of the scams making headlines, not just to track what’s happening, but to explain how these schemes work, why they’re spreading now, and what you can do to stay ahead of them. Here are scams in the news this week, and safety tips from our experts at McAfee: Amazon One-Time Passcode Scam: How Fake Security Calls Hijack Real Accounts Scammers are increasingly impersonating Amazon customer support to take over accounts using real one-time passcodes (OTPs), not fake links or malware. Here’s how the scam works in practice. What…
Exploring a new frontier for soil carbon credits, San Antonio-based startup Grassroots Carbon said today that it has reached 1.9 million tons in carbon removal and storage, and more than 1.5 million in retired credits. Founded in 2021, Grassroots Carbon works with ranchers to improve soil health via sampling, regenerative practices that include rotating paddocks with mobile fencing, software tools such as PastureMap and what it calls “the largest privately collected soil carbon dataset in the U.S.” Selling the credits to corporate buyers including Nestlé, Microsoft and Chevron, the company shares the revenue with ranchers, providing supplemental income to landowners…
It’s 5 months since the release of SwiftMCP 1.0 and I’ve been slow cooking some enhancements for it. It was rewarding to see a bit of interested in this package, judging by issues and forks I could see on GitHub. Today, I’m revealing the work for the client-side I’ve done during this time. The first version of SwiftMCP naturally focussed entirely on the server-side. You can annotate any class or actor with @MCPServer and that would expose its functions with the @MCPTool attribute via MCP. Metadata is gleaned from the documentation comments for the function and parameters. This means –…
Excessive energy consumption is widely regarded as the biggest problem with drones and other small flying vehicles. Batteries can only store so much power, which significantly limits the flight time of aerial vehicles. Increasing battery capacity is no solution either—that increases the weight of the aerial vehicle, which again limits flight time. If drones are ever going to fully deliver on their potential with real-world performance, further technological innovation will be required.For the smallest of flying robots, a group of researchers at Princeton University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign believe they have a better path forward. Inspired by the…