About Maria Korolov
Maria Korolov is an award-winning tech journalist who covers cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and extended reality.
She’s also a science fiction author and the editor and founder of MetaStellar, an online magazine of speculative fiction, and of Hypergrid Business, one of the world’s top virtual reality blogs.
Contact her at maria@korolov.com to pitch articles or to hire her as writer, editor, or speaker at your event.
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Latest AI articles
Red Hat extends Lightspeed generative AI tool to OpenShift and Enterprise Linux
Red Hat’s generative AI-powered Lightspeed tool was first announced last year for the Red Hat Ansible automation platform. This morning, as the Red Hat Summit kicks off in Denver, the company announced that it will be extended to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift. OpenShift, Red Hat’s Kubernetes-powered hybrid cloud application platform, will be getting it late this year. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Lightspeed is now in its planning…
Red Hat introduces ‘policy as code’ for Ansible
AI governance and cybersecurity certifications: Are they worth it?
How CIOs align with CFOs to build RevOps
Latest quantum computing articles
What Microsoft’s error-correction milestone means for usable quantum computing
Microsoft, in collaboration with quantum-computing company Quantinuum, announced that they have reached a new high in quantum error correction, which finally moves the industry into a new phase of quantum computing. Existing quantum computers all fall into the first stage of quantum computing: the foundational level, also known as “noisy intermediate scale quantum,” or NISQ, says Krysta Svore, vice president of advanced quantum development at Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft Corp. “The significance of this…
Error-correction breakthroughs bring quantum computing a step closer
Cybersecurity in a Post-Quantum World
Commercial quantum networks inch closer to primetime
Latest Cybersecurity articles
AI governance and cybersecurity certifications: Are they worth it?
The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), SANS Institute, and other organizations are releasing new AI certifications in the areas of governance and cybersecurity or adding new AI modules to existing programs. These may help professionals find employment, but with the area being relatively new, experts warn certifications could be out of date almost immediately. Data protection and privacy makes up about a third of AI governance, J. Trevor Hughes,…
The state of ransomware: Faster, smarter, and meaner
Generative AI poised to make substantial impact on DevSecOps
How GenAI helps entry-level SOC analysts improve their skills
Latest Networking articles
Intel builds world’s largest neuromorphic system
Quantum computing is billed as a transformative computer architecture that’s capable of tackling difficult optimization problems and making AI faster and more efficient. But quantum computers can’t be scaled yet to the point where they can outperform even classical computers, and a full ecosystem of platforms, programming languages and applications is even farther away. Meanwhile, another new technology is poised to make a much more immediate difference: neuromorphic computing. Neuromorphic…
Data centers warm up to liquid cooling
AI-powered 6G wireless promises big changes
5 data center predictions: Surging demand and tighter rules squeeze operations
Data centers unprepared for new European energy efficiency regulations
5 ways to boost server efficiency
latest Awards
latest Appearances
Press Release Writing in The Age Of AI
Guest Speaker: VWEC Expert Series
Profile: Sam Whitmore Media Survey
SANS Attack Surface Management Solutions Forum 2022: Building Resilience in the Face of Cyber Conflict
Guest Speaker: VWBPE 2022 Conference
Metaverse presentations: OpenSimulator Community Conference
Informa Webinar: Doing More IT With Less
MetaStellar: Setting up a WordPress website with DreamHost in 15 minutes
IDG Zero Trust Webinar
MetaStellar Interview: How we launched in a pandemic
BrightTalk cybersecurity panel
CIO Magazine New Reality Event
Look Left podcast
IDG Tech Talk: CCPA Revisited
InformaTech’s Cybersecurity Bootcamp
IDG Tech Talk: CCPA
older Awards and Appearances
Jan. 2018: Maria Korolov talks with Sine Wave about “Succeeding As A Retailer In Immersive Worlds.”
Dec. 2017: Speaker at Stereopsia conference in Brussels, Belgium. Topic was women in virtual reality. Click here for slides.
Dec. 2017: Speaker at OpenSimulator Community Conference. Topic was a statistical overview of OpenSim development. Click here for slides.
Apr. 2017: Profiled in Viar360’s Women of VR – 35 Ladies Who Are Killing It In Virtual Reality
Aug. 2016: Mentioned in Marie Claire’s Virtual Reality Has a Female Mafia—and They’re Looking for New Recruits
May 2016: Interviewed by the BCC about how virtual reality will change our lives. Listen to the broadcast here. Read the transcript here.
Sep. 2015: Mentioned in Fortune’s Meet the women shaping our virtual future.
Latest Blog Posts
Virtual assistant illustration created with Midjourney. Read my Midjourney review here. I’m working on a lot of projects these days. As…
Writing is all about the text. But marketing and promotion is often all about the images. Whether you’re sharing with your audience on Twitter, Facebook,…
A few days ago I wrote about how to use the free online app Miro to plot out a story. That’s all well and good…
A year ago, when the pandemic first hit, I wrote an article for CIO magazine about how to manage software development teams when you can’t…
Last month, I posted an article about a bunch of ways writers can use to beat procrastination. But maybe you want to go deeper on…
Have you ever stared at your screen or typewriter or notebook and couldn’t force yourself to write? You had the time block set aside for…