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If Apple CarPlay leaves you feeling frustrated and you want a break from it, there are a few ways to prevent it from automatically connecting in your car.

Millions rely on Android Auto every day for navigation, music and messaging, but one of the common issues is apps vanishing from the platform without warning.

Schiller reportedly had reservations about new CEO John Ternus' goal of bringing in more recurring revenue from the App Store.

With the right setup, an old, unused phone can be repurposed into a security camera. Even better? It's free.

188 vulnerabilities. That's where we started. After the modernisation, the jjwt migration, the targeted remediations, and the documented suppressions, here's where we ended up: 6 open findings. All suppressed with documented reasons. 0 unaddressed. But "188 to 6" is a headline, not a measurement. This article is about what meaningful security posture measurement actually looks like — the metrics that tell a real story versus the ones that just make a dashboard look good. Why Raw Finding Count Is a Weak Metric The most common way teams measure SCA progress is finding count. Before: 188. After: 6. Improvement: 182 findings resolved. 97% reduction. That number is real but it's also misleading in isolation. Here's why. If I had suppressed all 188 findings without fixing anything, my finding count would also be 6. The dashboard would look identical. The actual security posture would be unchanged. Finding count measures activity, not outcomes. What you need to measure is: What risk was actually reduced — not just what got closed What risk remains and why — the documented residual risk How the remediation was achieved — fix vs. suppress breakdown What the exploit exposure looks like — before and after exploit maturity These four dimensions together tell a story that a single number can't. Metric 1: Risk Reduction by Severity The most important before/after comparison is severity distribution, not total count. Severity Before After Fixed After Suppressed Remaining Critical 10 10 0 0 High 99 93 6 0 Medium 59 29 23 0 (7 in 4.x backlog) Low 20 0 20 0 Total 188 132 49 0 unaddressed Every Critical finding was fixed — not suppressed, fixed. That's the number that matters most. No Critical vulnerability was accepted as residual risk. The 6 suppressed High findings are all in the "no known exploit" category with documented unreachability justifications. The 23 suppressed Medium findings are split between test-scope dependencies and unreachable code paths. What to say when presentin

You can still buy music from the iTunes Store, believe it or not.

I love field recordings. I love making them. I love them when they're incorporated into my ambient music. They're great background noise for working or sleeping. But they're also great for active listening, focusing in on the fine nuances of burbling brooks or urban chaos. Earth Garden gives you a globe to explore with real […]

There are almost certainly keys on your keyboard that you never touch. Assign new functions to give them a job.

Clucky's new alarm app has an option where users are woken up to the sound of a rooster. They then complete a mission to turn it off.

Audacity 4 has been in the works for some time, and had its own mini controversy last year when an unfortunate redesigned logo started making the rounds. The final version of the new icon isn't nearly as bad as the early rendition that was circulating last October. But more importantly, all the promised improvements to […]

A federal judge temporarily barred an X rival from using the Twitter name, but found that X was likely to have abandoned the “Tweet” trademark and bird logo. The startup has since relaunched as Tweet.app.

It's not quite the "push button; get song" of Suno, but Roland's new Melody Flip tool marks the company's foray into generative AI music. Available as a plug-in for your digital audio workstation (DAW), Melody Flip offers around 250 "Palettes," which are essentially themed collections of musical ideas sorted by genre. You can start from […]

Gemini Spark can edit and curate photo albums, create shared collections, turn photos into calendar events, and handle other Google Photos tasks for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.

The popular free audio editor gets a colorful dark mode and granular editing tools.

Users can search for emails or draft documents using the new conversational feature

I recently built a complete IT ticket management system in Power Apps — 9 screens, role-based access, live SLA tracking, and automatic email notifications. The part I want to actually talk about here isn't the UI, it's the SLA engine, because I built it to work without Power Automate , and the trick is simpler than it looks. The problem SLA tracking normally means: a ticket is "Critical" → 60 minute target → somebody needs to know if it's about to breach or already has. The obvious way to do this is a scheduled Power Automate flow that checks every ticket on a timer and flags the ones in trouble. I wanted this app to run on Power Apps collections only — no flow, no external data source — so a scheduled flow wasn't an option. The question was: can you get "live" SLA status without a background job? The trick: recalculate on every read, not on a timer Instead of a flow updating a SLAStatus field periodically, I recalculate it every time the app or a screen is opened, using Now() against the stored due date: \ UpdateIf( colTickets, Status <> "Resolved" && Status <> "Closed", { SLAStatus: If( Now() > DueDate, "Breached", DateDiff(Now(), DueDate, TimeUnit.Minutes) <= SLAMinutes * 0.2, "At Risk", "On Track" ) } ); UpdateIf(colTickets, Status = "Resolved" || Status = "Closed", {SLAStatus: "Met"}) \ \ This runs in App.OnStart , at the top of every screen's OnVisible , and behind a manual "Refresh SLA" button. The At Risk threshold is 20% of the SLA window remaining — so a Critical ticket (60 min target) goes At Risk with 12 minutes left; a Low ticket (1440 min / 24 hrs) goes At Risk with 4.8 hours left. The honest tradeoff: this only updates when someone has the app open. A ticket breaching at 2am with nobody looking won't trigger anything until the next visit. For a real production deployment I'd pair this with a scheduled flow for after-hours detection — but for a demo, an internal tool with regular traffic, or anything where "eventually consistent within the next visit"

OpenAI's ChatGPT, xAI's Grok, and Anthropic's Claude are all experiencing issues. At around 11AM ET, ChatGPT started returning error messages for users trying to use the chatbot, with its status page saying there are currently "elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex." In addition to preventing users from having conversations with ChatGPT, the outage is also […]

TikTok’s comments section is getting an upgrade. The social network announced on Thursday that it’s rolling out new features for its comment sections, including voice comments, comment polls, photo carousel comments, and Live Photo comments. With the additions, the app is borrowing features from messaging apps as it looks to deepen engagement on its platform. […]

To keep scammers at bay, dating apps are embracing biometric scanning tools and “verified human” badges. These moves are sparking concerns about surveillance and privacy.

Adobe added dozens of tools from its creative apps like Illustrator and Premiere Pro into Slack, allowing you to ask Slackbot to do the Photoshopping for you.