Backblaze announced two new tools for Backblaze Computer Backup designed to give IT teams greater control, consistency, and automation across endpoint deployments: the Advanced Installer and the Backblaze Command Line Interface (bzcli). Backblaze Computer Backup has long been known for its simplicity. Install it, and it runs quietly in the background protecting data. While this works well for many organizations, IT teams managing large or distributed environments have increasingly asked for deeper configuration control during deployment and ongoing management. The Advanced Installer and bzcli were built to meet that need. “Backblaze has always been built on ease of use, but…
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Joost De Valk, founder of Yoast SEO, announced that he is stepping away from FAIR, a Linux Foundation project for creating an independent repository of themes and plugins. Fair Project The FAIR project was launched in mid-2025 in response to the Matt Mullenweg replaced WP Engine’s Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin in the official repository with his own version (called a fork, when a duplicate is created). Mullenweg also locked out WP Engine and many of its customers from accessing the official WordPress.org theme and plugin repository and related update services. Mullenweg’s actions drew significant criticism and brought attention to…
As we step into March, get ready to update your Netflix watch list with new, exciting titles, as the streaming platform gears up for a promising release slate. With new and returning titles coming to your screen almost every day, this month is sure to fulfill all your streaming needs. This March, you can anticipate the release of a new limited comedy-drama series, Vladimir; a horror miniseries, Something Very Bad is Going to Happen; and two new films, with a highlight being the highly anticipated movie, Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man. This month also welcomes back several returning shows, including…
Japanese cybersecurity software firm Trend Micro has patched two critical Apex One vulnerabilities that allow attackers to gain remote code execution (RCE) on vulnerable Windows systems. Apex One is an endpoint security platform that detects and responds to security threats, including malware, spyware, malicious tools, and vulnerabilities. The first critical Apex One security flaw patched this week (CVE-2025-71210) is due to a path traversal weakness in the Trend Micro Apex One management console, allowing attackers without privileges to execute malicious code on unpatched systems. The second, tracked as CVE-2025-71211, is another Apex One management console path traversal vulnerability, similar in scope to…
If you’re in the mood to watch a detective show on Netflix, you have plenty of options, some of them extremely good. But there’s also a chaff amongst the wheat. Netflix is in the business of producing a lot of original content — the sheer volume is one of the best things about it, since you’ll never run out of things to watch — but a lot of that content can be on the trashy or unremarkable side. Sometimes, it pays to look beyond Netflix originals. There’s one detective show available to watch on Netflix right now that blows most…
The year 2025 redefined the cyber threat landscape, as attacks escalated from data breaches to crippling business-wide disruptions. Last year’s cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover halted production lines for five weeks, prompting the British government to step in with a $2 billion bailout. This episode captures what changed in 2025: Rather than stolen data making headlines, it was business stoppage that triggered attention. Moving into 2026, the board’s focus should be on ensuring business continuity and building resilience in the face of emerging risks generated by AI usage and attack vectors, quantum computing and geopolitics. Below we look at four…
ChatGPT’s emerging ad ecosystem is gaining momentum with more brands appearing, clearer trigger patterns, and evolving ad placements, according to AI ad intelligence firm Adthena. What’s happening. After identifying the first advertisers inside ChatGPT last week, Adthena now reports a clear ramp-up in advertiser participation and ad delivery behavior. Advertisers spotted so far: Best Buy AT&T Pottery Barn Enterprise Qualcomm Expedia How ads are triggering. Based on a sample of 1,500+ prompts analyzed over the past week: Most ads appear on the first prompt. Some only trigger on the third or fourth repetition of the same query. High-intent modifiers like…
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What you need to knowIn Android 17 Beta 2, users can now turn any application into a floating bubble by long-pressing on the app icon in the launcher.Cross-device app Handoff lets you continue tasks seamlessly across Android devices.A system-level contact picker now limits apps to temporary read-only contact access.Android 17 beta 2 expands SMS OTP protection and strengthens local network privacy.Google faced a few issues with the rollout of the first Android 17 beta, but the company is not waiting long for the next release. Google has already started rolling out Android 17 beta 2 for developers.While it may seem…
Google’s Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt used an episode of the Search Off the Record podcast to walk through how Google’s crawler handles HTML. The conversation revealed differences between how browsers and Googlebot process the same page. The discussion covered resource hints, metadata placement, and HTML validation. Several of Illyes’ explanations challenge assumptions about which technical changes help with search. Why Resource Hints Don’t Help Googlebot Browser performance features like dns-prefetch, preload, prefetch, and preconnect solve latency problems that Google’s infrastructure doesn’t have. Illyes said Google’s DNS resolution doesn’t need the help most sites are trying to provide. He stated:…