Adastra Group, a leading global IT consultancy and services provider specializing in AI, data and cloud transformations, announced today that it has achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Agentic AI Specialization, a new category launched within the AWS AI Competency. This Specialization recognizes Adastra as an AWS Partner that enables customers to deploy autonomous AI

Researchers at Socket have uncovered more details of a sophisticated software supply-chain operation linked to the Contagious Interview campaign attacking developers who rely on packages from NPM. They report finding a “full stack” operation behind the attacks, where code hosting, package distribution, staging servers and command-and control (C2) infrastructure are orchestrated much like a legitimate

Qdrant has released Qdrant 1.16, an update of the Qdrant open source vector database that introduces tiered multitenancy, a capability intended to help isolate heavy-traffic tenants, boost performance, and scale search workloads more efficiently. Announced November 19, Qdrant 1.16 also offers ACORN, a search algorithm that improves the quality of filtered vector search in cases

Michigan and Wisconsin are considering proposals that would ban the use of virtual private networks (VPNs) by requiring internet providers to block these encrypted connections. The stated rationale is to control how users access certain online materials, but such a ban would upend the technical foundation of modern work, learning, and communication far beyond any

Many organizations are experimenting with AI agents to determine which job roles to focus on, when to automate actions, and what steps require a human in the middle. AI agents connect the power of large language models with APIs, enabling them to take action and integrate seamlessly into employee workflows and customer experiences in a

Imagine it’s 3 a.m. and your pager goes off. A downstream service is failing, and after an hour of debugging you trace the issue to a tiny, undocumented schema change made by an upstream team. The fix is simple, but it comes with a high cost in lost sleep and operational downtime. This is the

Gunslinging IT leaders with high generative AI (genAI) experiment failure rates are creating high-tech junk that will cost money to maintain after projects are abandoned. Recent surveys indicate that failed genAI efforts will leave in their wake a lot of garbage code, abandoned apps and security issues — all of which might not be visible

Data residency is no longer enough. As governments lose faith that storing data within their borders, but on someone else’s servers, provides real sovereignty, regulators are demanding something more fundamental: control over the encryption keys for their data. Privatim, a collective of Swiss local government data protection officers, last week called on their employers to

User consent is under threat, at least when it comes to your right to decide what apps to install on your device. That’s because India now wants all smartphone makers to install a government-mandated app on their devices, an app that cannot be deleted. It’s yet another privacy-related struggle for Apple — and for all of us.  What happened?

It took just under three years, but Google has finally caught up and overtaken its AI competitors. You remember how it was. When OpenAI released ChatGPT at the end of 2022 and created a world-wide sensation, Google was caught napping— and panicked. Despite the fact its researchers had introduced the architecture behind the new language