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Software licensing

Principles for selecting license models that encourage partner ecosystem growth and integration.

A practical, evergreen guide to choosing license models that stimulate partner collaboration, lower barriers to integration, and sustain long-term growth for software ecosystems.

Frank Miller

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July 19, 2025

Tips & tweaks

Simple steps to configure reliable time synchronization across devices to avoid certificate and authentication issues on networks.

Achieving precise time consistency across servers, workstations, and mobile devices minimizes certificate errors, authentication failures, and trust disputes on modern networks, ensuring seamless secure access.

Michael Cox

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July 18, 2025

Smartphones

Guide to selecting smartphones with the best combination of screen durability, scratch resistance, and touch sensitivity.

This evergreen guide helps buyers evaluate protective features, responsive touch performance, and practical durability across popular smartphone models, providing actionable criteria, real-world considerations, and shopper-friendly comparison tips for long-lasting devices.

Steven Wright

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July 24, 2025

Tech trends

Methods for architecting streaming ETL pipelines that ensure low latency, schema evolution handling, and fault tolerance for analytics.

Designing streaming ETL architectures demands a balanced approach to latency, adaptive schema strategies, and robust fault tolerance, ensuring reliable analytics, resilience during changes, and scalable data processing across diverse sources and systems.

Raymond Campbell

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July 23, 2025

APIs & integrations

Guidance on implementing API observability dashboards that surface latency, error rates, and usage hotspots.

A practical, enduring guide to building API observability dashboards that highlight latency, error rates, and usage hotspots, enabling teams to detect issues, optimize performance, and plan capacity with confidence.

Charles Scott

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August 02, 2025

Tech policy & regulation

Developing oversight frameworks for private companies providing essential public communication services to citizens.

In a rapidly digital era, robust oversight frameworks balance innovation, safety, and accountability for private firms delivering essential public communications, ensuring reliability, transparency, and citizen trust across diverse communities.

Peter Collins

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July 18, 2025

Cybersecurity

How to create layered defenses for customer portals and self-service platforms to reduce abuse and data leakage.

A practical guide to building multi-layered security for customer portals and self-service platforms, focusing on threat detection, user verification, data minimization, and resilient architecture to prevent abuse and leakage.

Gary Lee

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July 23, 2025

IoT & smart home

Approach to enabling secure remote assistance for smart home troubleshooting without granting persistent access.

Remote troubleshooting for smart homes requires trust, transparency, and controlled permissions that can be revoked at any time, ensuring safety, privacy, and operational continuity for residents and technicians alike.

Nathan Turner

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August 06, 2025

Tips & tweaks

Simple recommendations to secure cloud storage accounts by enabling strong authentication and reviewing access logs.

Implementing robust authentication for cloud storage and routinely auditing access logs builds a resilient security posture that minimizes credential theft, prevents unauthorized access, and preserves data integrity across personal and organizational environments.

Joshua Green

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July 31, 2025

Tech trends

Guidelines for implementing robust observability pipelines that capture, store, and analyze traces, logs, and metrics with retention strategies.

A practical, evergreen guide to building comprehensive observability pipelines that reliably collect traces, logs, and metrics, centralize them, and derive actionable insights while applying thoughtful retention strategies for long-term value.

George Parker

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July 30, 2025

Privacy & data protection

Strategies for protecting mental health app data and reviewing privacy practices of digital therapy and wellness platforms.

This evergreen guide explains practical steps for safeguarding personal data within mental health apps, while offering a rigorous approach to evaluating digital therapy and wellness platforms’ privacy commitments and security measures.

Jerry Perez

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July 30, 2025

Gadgets & devices

Key features to prioritize when selecting a compact wireless smart camera for pets that streams smoothly, detects activity, and offers treat dispensing.

This evergreen guide explains essential considerations for choosing a small wireless pet camera, focusing on reliable streaming, responsive activity detection, and dependable treat dispensing to keep pets engaged and secure.

Brian Hughes

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July 31, 2025

PCs & laptops

How to configure laptop virtualization settings and nested virtualization options for advanced development and testing environments.

Learn practical, step-by-step methods to enable and optimize laptop virtualization and nested virtualization across popular platforms, with actionable benchmarks, BIOS settings, and secure networking considerations for robust development and testing workflows.

Frank Miller

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July 19, 2025

Cloud services

How to implement role separation and least-privilege workflows for developers accessing cloud resources.

Effective cloud access hinges on clear role separation and strict least-privilege practices, ensuring developers can perform their tasks without exposing sensitive infrastructure, data, or credentials to unnecessary risk and misuse.

Kenneth Turner

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July 18, 2025

Tech policy & regulation

Developing policies to promote transparent, auditable, and contestable automated systems in public sector decision making.

A comprehensive policy framework is essential to ensure public confidence, oversight, and accountability for automated decision systems used by government agencies, balancing efficiency with citizen rights and democratic safeguards through transparent design, auditable logs, and contestability mechanisms.

Adam Carter

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August 05, 2025

Common issues & fixes

How to resolve missing webhook retries causing transient failures to drop events and lose important notifications.

When webhooks misbehave, retry logic sabotages delivery, producing silent gaps. This evergreen guide assembles practical, platform-agnostic steps to diagnose, fix, and harden retry behavior, ensuring critical events reach their destinations reliably.

Alexander Carter

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July 15, 2025

Device reviews

Choosing the best compact portable field light for photographers and videographers needing adjustable color temperature, even output, and long battery runtime.

In outdoor shoots where space is limited but lighting quality matters, a compact portable field light with adjustable color temperature, consistent brightness, and long battery life becomes an indispensable tool for photographers and videographers across diverse environments.

Benjamin Morris

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August 12, 2025

PCs & laptops

How to plan a straightforward migration from Mac to Windows or vice versa while preserving data and preferences.

A practical, step by step guide designed to minimize disruption, protect your files, maintain key settings, and ensure a smooth transition between Mac and Windows environments.

Gregory Ward

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July 25, 2025

Software licensing

How to create clear upgrade paths and license migration plans for long-term customers.

A practical guide to designing transparent upgrade paths and smooth license migration strategies that respond to evolving software needs while preserving trust, compatibility, and long-term financial value for both vendors and customers.

James Kelly

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July 16, 2025

Cybersecurity

How to implement continuous monitoring for cloud environments to identify misconfigurations and suspicious behavior.

Continuous monitoring in cloud environments combines automated checks, real-time analytics, and governance to detect misconfigurations and suspicious activity, enabling proactive protection, faster response, and resilient security posture.

Christopher Hall

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July 19, 2025

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