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Web application firewalls have been around for roughly 30 years. In that time, web traffic has fundamentally changed—from humans browsing pages to APIs, bots, and now AI agents executing transactions at scale. The WAF hasn’t kept pace. And in a lot of organizations, the response has been to stop touching it entirely. WAFs sit at the perimeter of web-facing applications and are supposed to…

Some would call me an Apple fan boy. A long time ago, exasperated by another computer operating system, I switched to what Apple then called the Power Book (with Mac OS) and I’ve never looked back.I currently own a Mac Mini, a MacBook Air, an iPad, an iPhone, an Apple Watch, an Apple TV, various accessories and an Apple display. You’re welcome, Tim Cook. I also use multiple Apple applications. I…

The Nothing Phone 4a Pro costs $499 and grabs the show right away with its sleek industrial design, which essentially redefines the class that the company has set with previous models. The aluminum frame surrounds it, and is the most durable yet from Nothing. Circular LED patterns on the back light up for notifications timers and music visuals while small widgets on the home screen run simple…

From emotional family stories to romantic dramas that strike a chord, the movies for this April weekend offer a little something for every kind of binge-watcher. Whether you are in the mood for warmth, drama, or a compelling love story, these exclusive, TV premieres make for an easy and entertaining marathon.   If you have missed watching in the theatre, catch this movie first-time-on-TV   Son of…

“When you experience quick commerce for the first time, it actually feels magical.” It is an observation most consumers would agree with. The experience is seamless: a few taps on an app, a short wait, and everyday essentials arrive at the doorstep. What is less visible, however, is the system that makes this possible, one that operates with extraordinary precision, speed, and coordination. In a…

Up to 80% of U.S. mayors say their city needs to develop more multifamily housing, a Boston University survey found. Support for zoning and permitting reform was more muted, however. Elevate your perspective with NextTech News, where innovation meets insight. Discover the latest breakthroughs, get exclusive updates, and connect with a global network of future-focused thinkers. Unlock tomorrow’s…

Claire chatted to Simona Aracri from National Research Council of Italy about innovative robot designs for oceanography and environmental monitoring. Simona Aracri is a researcher in the Institute of Marine Engineering at the National Research Council of Italy. Previously, she was a Post Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Edinburgh, working on the award winning project ORCA Hub and…

If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine. There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it’ll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give…

On April 2, Sony increased the price of all of its PlayStation 5 consoles. The standard disc edition now costs $650, the digital edition up to $600, and the Pro model is a hefty $900. However, when you take a step back and look closely at the PlayStation Portal, things begin to make a lot more sense. It debuted in 2023 as a way to stream games from your PS5 to your TV, but you required your…

Nearly 12 months after losing his seat, as well as taking the Liberals to an historic defeat in the May 2025 federal election, former opposition leader Peter Dutton has a new gig on the board of the state government-backed Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC). The LNP government has also put another ex politician on the QIC board – former Beattie government assistant minister Michael Choi. The…

The global payment system is going through a big change. As digital payments get quicker, more complicated, and more global, traditional payment systems are having a hard time meeting the needs of today’s businesses. Smart payment systems are the next step in payment technology. They use artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain technology to make payment gateways that are smart, safe, and very…

Risk management in clinical trials depends on systems that detect issues, correct them, and prevent them from returning. Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPAs) are the structured process used to investigate deviations, address root causes, and strengthen controls. When CAPAs work, they protect study integrity and reduce recurrence. When they don’t, problems repeat and become more disruptive…

New roles: More than two years after her return to CNN, Alex MacCallum is taking on additional duties as she was named the news network’s chief operating officer. In a memo to staffers obtained by TVNewser, CNN CEO Mark Thompson said MacCallum’s promotion comes as she has “already achieved an impressive set of critical accomplishments in record time.” MacCallum was previously CNN’s executive vice…

Liquid AI just released LFM2.5-VL-450M, an updated version of its earlier LFM2-VL-450M vision-language model. The new release introduces bounding box prediction, improved instruction following, expanded multilingual understanding, and function calling support — all within a 450M-parameter footprint designed to run directly on edge hardware ranging from embedded AI modules like NVIDIA Jetson Orin,…

On April 9, Zhiyuan Robotics introduced its next-generation embodied AI foundation model, Genie Operator-2 (GO-2). The model aims to improve execution reliability in complex environments by bridging the gap between task understanding and physical action. GO-2 incorporates an “Action Chain-of-Thought” mechanism, generating structured high-level action sequences before producing control signals. It…

Hungarian domestic intelligence, the national police in El Salvador, and several U.S. law enforcement and police departments have been attributed to the use of an advertising-based global geolocation surveillance system called Webloc. The tool was developed by Israeli company Cobwebs Technologies and is now sold by its successor Penlink after the two firms merged in July 2023, according to a…

Karandeep Singh / Android Authority I didn’t intend to do this experiment, but my month-long trip away from home forced me to shut down my NAS for a good few weeks. What I expected to be a temporary inconvenience ended up feeling… normal. The NAS is such an ingrained part of my local file access workflow that I assumed I’d miss it immediately, but with a portable SSD in my hand and Google Drive…