Evan Schuman

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Evan Schuman has covered IT issues for a lot longer than he'll ever admit. The founding editor of retail technology site StorefrontBacktalk, he's been a columnist for CBSNews.com, RetailWeek, Computerworld, and eWeek, and his byline has appeared in titles ranging from BusinessWeek, VentureBeat, and Fortune to The New York Times, USA Today, Reuters, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Baltimore Sun, The Detroit News, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Evan is a frequent contributor to CIO, CSO, Network World and InfoWorld.

Evan won a gold 2025 AZBEE award in the Enterprise News category for this story: Design flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out

He can be reached at eschuman@thecontentfirm.com and he can be followed on LinkedIn.

Articles by Evan Schuman

Retail versus finance: How genAI coding strategies diverge

A report from a code analysis vendor compares the details behind genAI rollouts between the two verticals, revealing that 61% of retail genAI code repositories show active development, compared to 22% of financial services’ repositories.

Evan Schuman

Articles by Evan Schuman

Retail versus finance: How genAI coding strategies diverge

Salesforce to buy Informatica in $8 billion deal

OWASP proposes a way for enterprises to automatically identify AI agents

Amazon concedes that Chime SDK makes far more sense than the Chime application itself

Amazon rolls out a genAI-powered inline chat function for Amazon Q Developer

Generative AI and coding: Time to rethink software development

The reality of AI-centric coding

White House opts to not add regulatory restrictions on AI development – for now

Google rolls out new dev tools focusing on open source and GenAI

FTC’s non-compete ban almost certainly dead, based on a Texas federal court decision

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PostgreSQL 18 to boost OLTP performance, but misses AI readiness

Getting encryption wrong (and getting it right, too)

How to build a native desktop app vs. a web UI app

PyApp: Build click-to-run Python apps with Rust