As AI scales, infrastructure challenges emerge
Early adopters of gen AI typically used ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and similar SaaS tools that cost money but didn’t create…
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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
Cost, security, and flexibility: the business case for open source gen AI
Commercial generative AI platforms like OpenAI and Anthropic get all the attention, but open source alternatives can offer cost benefits, security, and flexibility.
11 key roles for AI success
10 most critical LLM vulnerabilities
Cloudera jockeys for AI platform prominence
Latest quantum computing articles
Post-quantum encryption: Crypto flexibility will prepare firms for quantum threat, experts say
NIST standards for quantum-safe encryption are due out this summer. As quantum computing advances, enterprises need to consider their encryption infrastructure and post-quantum security strategies.
Quantum Computing for the Pharmaceutical Industry
Quantum Computing for the Supply Chain – Delivering New Efficiencies
How Quantum Computing is Supporting Financial Services
Latest Cybersecurity articles
10 ways hackers will use machine learning to launch attacks
AI and machine learning are improving cybersecurity, helping human analysts triage threats and close vulnerabilities quicker. But they are also helping threat actors launch bigger, more complex attacks.
Microsoft Entra Suite is late to the SSE pool but will still make waves
AI agents can find and exploit known vulnerabilities, study shows
Breach and attack simulation tools: Top vendors, key features, how to choose
Latest Networking articles
VMware Cloud Foundation gains AI model store, other updates
At the VMware Explore conference this week, Broadcom announced expanded AI support, including a new AI model store for VMware Private AI running on VMware Cloud Foundation.
Data centers unprepared for new European energy efficiency regulations
5 ways to boost server efficiency
8 top industries for private 5G
Hot (and not hot) networking skills
VMware NSX+ centralizes cloud networking and security for multicloud environments
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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
This question has been coming up a lot lately, and there’s a whole speech I give about this, so I thought I’d write it down…
UPDATE FEB. 2021: Lately, I’ve been testing out a new online collaboration tool called Notion. The basic plan, which includes sharing with up to five…
New update, June 18: I’ve started a new virtual Zoom-based MeetUp group for speculative fiction writers. If you write science fiction, fantasy or horror, check…
Another tool useful for writers that I’ve talked about this one in writers’ meetings before is Otter.AI. It transcribes your dictation. You just talk, and…
A friend of a friend just called me, asking for advice on how to become a technology journalist. I promised to send him some links…
The Lost King of Krim, a novella of the Krim virtual world that was released last month, hit multiple Amazon category bestseller lists this month.…