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A hiring manager passed over a highly qualified candidate solely because they lacked experience with one specific software tool, despite strong overall skills and experience. The decision quickly proved costly, as the company struggled to fill the role and lost productivity in the process.
General Motors is overhauling the infotainment system in its next-generation Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500 trucks, arriving later this year as 2027 models. The update includes new animated graphics, simplified menus for towing and off-roading, larger touch targets across more than 60 inches of combined screen space, and picture-in-picture support for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.
Cisco released fixes for CVE-2026-76461, a critical flaw in AsyncOS Software for Secure Email Gateway that lets unauthenticated attackers run root-level commands by sending crafted emails with malicious SQL statements. The company confirmed it detected active exploitation of the bug in September 2026 and issued indicators of compromise for defenders to check mail logs and network traffic. CISA has added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, giving federal agencies until September 17 to patch.
id Software has permanently lowered the price of Doom: The Dark Ages to $50, alongside a re-listing of the Doom Anthology that now bundles the game's Premium edition, including the Revelations DLC. The updated Anthology is available only on PS5, Steam, and Xbox Series X/S, with no changes for older console versions. Existing owners of the previous Anthology bundle won't automatically receive The Dark Ages.
IBM is hosting an interactive webinar aimed at higher education students, particularly IEEE chapter members, covering the basics of AI types, common concerns, and IBM's approach to Responsible AI. Attendees will apply these principles to a real use case involving IBM Bob, a software development life cycle agent, and can participate via live polling and Q&A.
Ahead of the iOS 27 release, iPhone owners are being urged to free up roughly 18 to 25GB of storage, ensure at least 50 percent battery or a charger connection, and stay on Wi-Fi before installing. Users can also choose between manual updates or Apple's automatic overnight installation option found in Settings.
A developer who has written design documents at Google, Microsoft and his own startups has published a full example design doc for a real web application he is building, explaining that he could not find any public high-quality examples elsewhere. He created the document before writing any code and is following it during implementation, using it to demonstrate the principles behind effective design documentation.
Apple is publicly releasing iOS 27, the newest iPhone operating system, after months of beta testing since June. The update's headline feature is an overhauled Siri chatbot built around new AI capabilities, and testers have reported gains in overall speed and stability.
An industry commentator argues that software engineers face far less accountability than structural engineers, despite code failures already causing mass casualties, citing examples like AI-driven military drones and safety-critical AI systems. The piece contrasts civil engineering's licensing system, born from disasters like the 1928 St Francis Dam collapse, with software's near-total lack of formal oversight. It also outlines why regulating code is structurally harder than regulating physical construction, including the sheer number of self-taught coders and software's borderless nature.
Software engineer Hank built a system letting him model a 3D object on his computer, then physically throw it toward his Bambu Lab P2S printer using a Meta Quest 3 headset to trigger the print. The workflow was built with help from an OpenAI GPT model and connects an Android app to a PC web server that talks to the printer's local API. Hank hasn't published the code yet but says he'll share it if there's enough interest.
Gene Moody, Field CTO at Action1, argues that IT teams face an unsustainable mismatch between the growing volume of software patches and the shrinking time available to test them, forcing many organizations to skip review steps and push updates straight to production. He warns that simply automating patch deployment to go faster does not solve the underlying problem, since automation can propagate a bad update across thousands of endpoints just as quickly as a good one.
Prior Software Inc. has released Prior, a predictive intelligence tool that lets users ask questions about future events—from sports and financial markets to personal choices—and receive a forecast report. The platform gathers context through follow-up questions, scans current web information, and reviews a user's past predictions before generating a calibrated probability, weighted scenarios, key drivers, and suggested actions. Pricing ranges from a free weekly prediction to tiered subscriptions up to $499 monthly for unlimited forecasts.