Ever felt like voice adds a whole other layer to roleplaying—like your character’s heartbeat is just one whisper away? There’s something uncanny about hearing an AI speak, its tone oscillating between playful and sincere, with zero judgement. But not every app does voice right. I went on a deep dive into the most uncensored AI

Broadcom and Canonical are expanding their partnership, saying they will help customers create container-based and AI applications more quickly and securely, and at lower cost. “Canonical is the number-one Cloud OS provider in the market with the Ubuntu containers, and VMware by Broadcom, with our VCF Foundation, is the number-one private cloud platform,” said Prashanth

Broadcom is pushing its new data lakehouse platform as the answer to all an enterprise’s data challenges — or almost. VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence will enable users to curate incoming data across many different environments with its data ingestion, streaming, and pipeline engine, the company said its VMware Explore conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday.

Users of Docker Desktop on Windows and Mac are urged to upgrade to the latest version to patch a critical vulnerability that could allow an attacker to break the container isolation layer and potentially take over the host system. The flaw could also be exploited remotely through server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks against web applications

Microsoft has released Proxy 4, an update of its Proxy library for runtime polymorphism in the C++ language. The new release introduces building blocks for composing facades, aliases to express borrowing and weak ownership patterns, helpers for efficiently creating shared and weak proxies, and more. Proxy 4 was announced August 19. Found on GitHub, Proxy

MariaDB, a company that as recently as last year was very much in transition due in part to the fact its new CEO, Rohit de Souza, is a specialist in preparing organizations for acquisition and resale, went in another direction Tuesday by making an acquisition of its own. It brought SkySQL, the cloud-based database-as-a-service (DBaaS)

One of my favorite TV shows is The Bear. It’s a show about a troubled yet brilliant chef, his family, his friends, and the restaurant they all start together. It’s also about excellence and growing into greatness.  The Bear includes what might be the best television episode I have ever seen. In Season 2, Episode 7, called

Solid.js takes a unique approach to reactive state management that has broadly influenced other reactive front-end JavaScript frameworks. It provides a compact set of reactive primitives built on signals, rather than state, and leverages those to support higher-order functionality. With a clean core design built for speed and a full set of enterprise features, Solid

AI-enabled cheating has surged, particularly in virtual technical job interviews. Would-be job candidates increasingly use AI tools off-camera to feed them answers, such as responses to coding challenges, and in some cases turning to deepfake technology to impersonate applicants. To battle that trend, more and more companies are ditching screens for handshakes — bringing back

The Trump administration is reportedly weighing sanctions on EU officials responsible for enforcing the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA), a move that could escalate transatlantic tensions and complicate how US enterprises manage compliance, data flows, and operations in Europe. Deliberations on this within the State Department are still underway, with no final decision yet on