Author: Samuel Alejandro

Bangladeshi conglomerates, historically successful through internal development, face challenges in rapidly evolving tech sectors. This article argues that a shift towards corporate venture capital and strategic partnerships with startups is crucial. Such an approach can mitigate risks, accelerate innovation, and foster a more robust entrepreneurial ecosystem in Dhaka, moving beyond the limitations of the traditional “build-it-yourself” model.

The added screen doesn’t feel necessary, but the charger’s rotating prongs do a better job at justifying this upgrade.

The fourth quarter of 2025 witnessed unprecedented DDoS activity, highlighted by the Aisuru-Kimwolf botnet’s “The Night Before Christmas” campaign, which launched hyper-volumetric HTTP DDoS attacks exceeding 200 million requests per second. This period also saw a record-breaking 31.4 Terabits per second attack. Overall, 2025 experienced a 121% surge in DDoS attacks, with Hong Kong and the United Kingdom seeing significant increases in targeting.

BigCodeBench is introduced as a new benchmark designed to evaluate large language models (LLMs) on practical and challenging code generation tasks. It addresses limitations of existing benchmarks like HumanEval by offering 1,140 function-level tasks that require LLMs to follow complex instructions and utilize diverse library function calls. The benchmark emphasizes real-world programming scenarios and rigorous evaluation, providing a more reliable assessment of LLM programming capabilities.

After creating a Visual Studio Code theme, the next step is to make it available to others. This guide covers the essential steps for publishing your theme extension to both the Visual Studio Marketplace and Open VSX, detailing preparation, configuration, and the publishing process for each platform.

Epic Games is actively pursuing the expansion of its store to the next-generation Xbox console. The company has reported significant growth and confirmed discussions with Microsoft, indicating a potential shift in the console landscape towards more open, third-party storefronts.

Paylocity offers a robust HR and payroll solution with strong automation, compliance, and employee engagement features. While it excels in financial functionality and workforce analytics, its comprehensive nature might be overwhelming for new users, and pricing details are not transparent. It is best suited for experienced HR teams in mid-sized businesses.

Following the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, a swift and coordinated smear campaign emerged from the Trump administration and conservative media figures. Pretti, a 37-year-old American citizen and registered nurse, was quickly labeled a ‘terrorist’ and ‘lunatic,’ despite conflicting evidence regarding the incident.

Amazon’s recent redesign of the Alexa app has rendered its shopping list feature largely impractical, prompting a return to Apple’s Reminders and Siri for many users.

Cloudflare Radar has enhanced its DNS insights, now offering detailed visibility into aggregated traffic and usage trends observed by the 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver. This expansion includes new API endpoints for analyzing DNS query volume, distribution across various dimensions like protocol usage, query types, and DNSSEC status.