The NATO DIANA Demo Day recently took place in Warsaw as part of Defence24 Days. At the FORT Kraków event, companies developing strategically significant technologies for security and defence were showcased: autonomous systems, communications solutions, sensors, counter-drone technologies, and data integration tools.
Digital health tools have earned their permanent residency in healthcare. Most hospitals today offer patient-facing applications — and roughly two-thirds of US patients have accessed a health portal at least once. Yet more than 95% use it passively – checking notifications, but never initiating contact with the service. Is bad user experience to blame? Which engagement tactics are even ethically acceptable in healthcare?
Cybersecurity long ago stopped being a topic reserved for banks, military contractors, and companies with “classified” on the door. Attacks are making their way into healthcare, energy, hospitality, libraries, cloud services, and everyday office applications. Against this backdrop, Zero Trust keeps coming up more and more. It’s one of the most widely embraced responses to a reality where an employee might work from the office, home, an airport, or a coffee shop, applications live in the cloud, and part of the infrastructure is handed off to contractors.
Should I move to a different country? To boost my career, to pursue more interesting work and a higher salary, or simply to escape a war zone? Not long ago, the world was converging, and software engineering was a tailor-made profession for a globalizing humanity: decent pay, freedom to choose between cities, countries, and projects at will. But the rules are changing at breakneck speed. The future that IT specialists were counting on looks different now — fragmented, uncertain, and in some places, dangerous.