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Most guides on choosing an applicant tracking system talk about features. This one is about the layer that actually determines whether the platform survives contact with your stack: integrations. If you're the technical person pulled into an ATS evaluation, this is the part your non-technical colleagues will underestimate — and the part that generates the most post-contract pain. Here's how to map it properly. 1. Inventory every data flow, not every tool Don't list “tools.” List directional data flows. For each system, write down what data moves, which direction, and how often: ●HRIS — candidate → employee record handoff on hire (bidirectional ideally) ●Payroll — new-hire data push (one-way, event-triggered) ●Background screening — order + status callback (bidirectional, webhook-driven) ●Calendar (Google/Microsoft) — interview scheduling + availability sync ●Video interview tools — scheduling links out, recordings/scores back ●Job boards / distribution — posting syndication out, application ingestion back The “direction + trigger” framing exposes gaps that a flat tool list hides. 2. Classify each integration by mechanism Not all “integrations” are equal. Push the vendor to tell you which of these each connection actually uses: ●Native pre-built integration — maintained by the vendor, lowest overhead ●Public REST API — you (or middleware) build and maintain it ●iPaaS / middleware (Workato, Merge.dev, etc.) — flexible, adds cost + a dependency ●Flat-file / SFTP batch — a red flag in 2025 for anything real-time ●“On the roadmap” — treat as does not exist A “yes, we integrate with X” that turns out to be a nightly CSV export is a very different thing from a webhook-driven bidirectional sync. 3. Interrogate the API itself If any integration will run through the public API, evaluate it like you'd evaluate any dependency: ●Is it REST/GraphQL, documented, and versioned? ●Rate limits — do they survive a high-volume hiring event? ●Webhooks for state changes, or are you stuck

Believe it or not, the Tesla Cybercab is coming. Nearly two years after Elon Musk first unveiled the gold-tinted, gull-wing door sporting, steering wheel-free two-seaters as the future of Tesla's autonomy efforts, the company is finally putting them into operation as part of its robotaxi service in Austin, Texas. Public rides are here, and as […]

Last week, I powered on a 26-year-old copy of Pokémon Pinball, one of the best Game Boy games ever made. My save file was no more. The Charmander I'd caught for my daughter, the high scores we'd set together… gone. Before flash memory, Nintendo cartridges used tiny watch batteries to save their games, and those […]

Acer is announcing a new laptop poised to rival the MacBook Air's thinness and lightness - and in the process, it cops another laptop's name. The Acer Swift Blade 14 (not to be confused with the Razer Blade 14) is a productivity machine weighing just 1.76 pounds / 799g and measuring as little as 0.51 […]

Microsoft is getting ready to roll out its memory integrity security feature of Windows 11 to more devices next month. The kernel-level protection feature is designed to stop malicious code or drivers running on a Windows 11 machine, but Microsoft previously warned it can also impact PC gaming performance. "Windows quality updates will begin enabling […]

Every time I tried to explain technical debt to a business leader early in my career, I watched their eyes glaze over at roughly the same word. I would talk about coupling, legacy modules, and refactoring, and they would hear a developer asking for time to tidy up code that already worked. From where they sat, it sounded like a hobby. The system ran, customers paid, revenue arrived. Why would anyone spend money making invisible internals prettier when there were features to ship and deadlines to hit? The breakthrough, for me, was to stop explaining the engineering and start describing the finance, because technical debt is a loan whether anyone chose to take it or not. Every time we shipped a shortcut to hit a date, we borrowed speed today against effort tomorrow. That is often a completely rational trade. Getting to market fast can be worth far more than a clean design nobody ever sees. The problem is not the borrowing. The problem is that this loan accrues interest silently, and the business had been making payments for years without ever seeing the statement. That interest shows up in ways leaders actually feel, once you connect the dots for them. It is why a feature that used to take a week now takes a month. It is why every change risks breaking something unrelated, so nothing ships without a nervous weekend. It is why new hires take half a year to become productive in a codebase that only its veterans can navigate. None of that reads as "debt" on any report, but it is the compounding cost of shortcuts taken long ago, paid daily by everyone who touches the system. Framed that way, the conversation finally changes. I stop asking for permission to clean things up and start presenting a financial choice. We can keep paying this interest indefinitely and watch our delivery speed keep bleeding out, or we can pay down some principal now and get that velocity back. Sometimes the honest answer is to keep carrying the debt, and that is fine. What is not fine is carrying

iRobot has announced a new flagship robot vacuum, which it will showcase at IFA in Berlin this week, the company's first big tech trade show in years. The Roomba maker will be exhibiting under its new owner, Picea Robotics, the contract manufacturer that purchased the once-troubled American robotics company out of bankruptcy in January. The […]

At 5:21 p.m. Eastern on Friday, June 12, Anthropic received a United States government directive. By nightfall, two of the most capable artificial-intelligence models in the world had gone dark after a Commerce Department export-control directive prompted Anthropic to take them offline worldwide. The directive required Anthropic to prevent access to Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether that person was inside or outside the United States. It extended even to Anthropic's own foreign-national employees. Because the company had no reliable way to verify every user's nationality in real time, it suspended both models for everyone . The controls remained in place until June 30. On July 1, Anthropic restored Fable globally. Mythos took a narrower path: after government approval on June 26, access returned to a set of United States organizations while Anthropic continued coordinating with the government over broader domestic and international access. That sounds like a short outage with a happy ending. It was neither. I have spent years building systems where a dependency going unavailable is not an abstraction. Once software is woven into a product or an operating process, access to it becomes part of the architecture. A model that can be withdrawn immediately under a company-specific determination and factual rationale no customer could have read is no longer only a technical dependency. It is a bet on unpublished policy. The United States needs to govern frontier A.I. It also needs companies, researchers, investors, and customers to know what the rules are before the government enforces them. June showed how far apart those two needs remain. The security concern was real The government's concern was not invented. Fable and Mythos shared the same underlying model, but Fable was released with strong safeguards for general use while Mythos, with fewer safeguards, went only to a small group of defensive-cybersecurity partners. Anthropic says My

Sonos unveiled a bunch of new stuff today at its open house event. There's the $699 Beam Ultra soundbar and the $449 Ace Ultra headphones, plus several under-the-hood app updates (some coming sooner than others). While the show floor was a less than ideal venue to judge audio quality of either new product, a private […]

Depending on who you ask, developer platform Hugging Face was recently attacked by OpenAI - after it lost control of its own AI tools - or by a succession of AI "civilizations." Welcome to the linguistic battlefield of AI safety, where word choices can shift responsibility for a massive cybersecurity incident from a company to […]

New Apple CEO John Ternus sent out his first staff memo, thanking his predecessor Tim Cook, and quickly turning to what the company will do next, reports Bloomberg. "We have a huge launch next week that's going to be phenomenal. Thanks for everything you've all done to make it possible," writes Ternus, referring to the […]

Apple is pushing for "expedited discovery" in its legal battle against OpenAI over concerns the company is actively destroying evidence, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. In a filing on Monday, Apple alleges OpenAI only just handed over a MacBook used by a former employee at the center of the lawsuit, which contained discussions about "destroying […]

New features are rolling out across the Android ecosystem starting today.

Google announced new features coming to Android devices as part of this month's feature drop update. Among the highlights are the introduction of Motion Assist - Android's version of Apple's Motion Cues feature, which tries to reduce motion sickness by overlaying dots on your screen that move in response to a vehicle's movements - as […]

Smart homes have gotten really good at making things really complicated. Turning on a light can involve multiple steps, compared to just flipping a switch. Homey, the Dutch-based smart home platform owned by LG, thinks it has a solution. This week it launched the Homey Portal, a touchscreen smart home controller that looks very promising, […]

GoPro suddenly looks like a very different company than it did just last week. First, YouTuber Mark "Markiplier" Fischbach became the company's single largest shareholder, without disclosing that in a sponsored review that came out a week later. Now, almost the entire company has been bought by Starman Holding for $285 million in cash, which […]

John Deere is testing a new "JD" AI assistant that it says can help farmers make more money, with answers about best practices and historical trends that are based on their own data. It uses their "field, machine and operational data" to answer questions on topics like equipment settings, fuel usage, or harvest timing. The […]

Google has a new suite of creative design tools for Workspace users called Google Pics, which aims to make editing and generating "professional-grade" AI images less cumbersome for businesses. Built around Gemini and the Nano Banana generative AI model, Google Pics is designed to give more granular control over prompt-based image making and manipulation, allowing […]

After launching a budget-friendly flood sensor last month with impressive battery life, Shelly announced a new $49.99 security camera today that can be used without any additional subscription fees - although that's still an option if you want to expand its capabilities. The Shelly Camera will be available soon from the company's online store and […]

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