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It’s Time for a Cybersecurity Health Check

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Is Your Legacy or Custom Software Putting Your Business at Risk? October is Cyber Security Awareness Month, making it a good time for businesses to review more than passwords, phishing awareness and employee training. It’s an excellent time to revisit your cybersecurity strategy and shine some light on the software your business depends on daily. When was the last time your organization conducted a cybersecurity health check or security audit of its legacy software, custom applications and business-critical code? If you don’t have a definitive answer, it may be time to look...

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A Novel Idea for AI

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Why Leisure Reading is A Competitive Business Advantage When was the last time you read a book purely because you wanted to? Not a technical manual. Not an industry report. Not an email that somehow became a 14-page attachment. A book. Maybe it was last night. Maybe it was six months ago. Maybe your reading list consists entirely of articles you saved and fully intend to read “someday.” You are not alone. The good news is that global literacy has improved dramatically over the long term. The less encouraging news is that reading proficiency and reading for pleasure are...

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AI: Proceed, Pause or Panic?

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Are We Having an AI Related Existential Crisis? There is a slightly surreal quality to the AI conversation right now. One moment, businesses are being told that artificial intelligence can transform productivity, accelerate software development, improve decision-making, and help solve some of the world’s hardest scientific problems. The next moment, the very people building that technology are publicly warning society that advanced AI could pose an existential threat to humanity and economists are warning of pending financial collapse. Is any of this even true? Is AI...

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Bill C-36: Is Your Business Ready?

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What Canada’s Proposed Consumer Data Act Could Mean for Businesses and Employees Privacy legislation has a habit of sounding like something the legal department will worry about later. Until someone asks IT where the customer data is stored. Then things get interesting. Canada’s proposed Bill C-36, the Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act (PPCDA), represents a significant proposed modernization of Canada’s federal private-sector privacy framework. Introduced on June 15, 2026, the bill is designed to replace Part 1 of the Personal Information Protection and...

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Tariffs as a Weapon: Geopolitics Has Entered IT

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For the past 18 months, geopolitical friction has become the background noise of business. Wars, sanctions, supply chain disruptions, changing trade agreements, economic nationalism, cybersecurity threats and increasingly competitive relationships between major economies have moved from the pages of international news into boardrooms and budget meetings. For Canadian tech companies, there’s an additional layer; the increasingly complicated relationship between Canada and the United States. The temptation is to think, “We are a software company, tariffs are somebody else’s...

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Tech Needs More Tims and Dollys

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There are weeks when the news feels like a reminder that time moves faster than we would like and last week was one of them. Globally, headlines shared the deaths of two extraordinary creative figures: Dolly Parton and Tim Curry, both 80. Parton became one of the most recognizable figures in music and entertainment while building a business empire and an extraordinary philanthropic legacy. Curry became an international cultural icon through The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and then spent decades championing for the LGBTQ+ community while navigating a career in theatre, film, television,...

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AI: We Have a Problem!

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There is a peculiar moment that happens in software development: the business identifies an exciting innovative technology, the stakeholders get enthusiastic, a development project is approved, the team builds the feature, and the feature launch happens. And then… the people who were supposed to use it don’t. The feature sits there quietly, gathering digital dust, much like that New Year’s resolution purchase of a treadmill. This problem is becoming increasingly visible with rapid adoption of AI. Businesses are spending heavily on artificial intelligence and embedding AI...

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The Top 3 Software Trends We’ve Seen in 2026, So Far

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If there is one thing the first half of 2026 has made clear, it’s that business technology has become a little less about chasing the next shiny object and a lot more about figuring out what really works. At STEP Software, we’ve written about everything from AI technical debt and data quality to edge computing, embedded systems, cybersecurity, digital sovereignty and software architecture. On the surface, those topics might look like an eclectic collection. Look a little closer, though, and three common threads emerge that tell us quite a bit about where software development and...

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Second Page News: August Edition

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There is a strange and for many of us, relentless phenomenon happening in technology news. Open almost any technology publication, news feed or social media platform and you will find AI. AI in your browser. AI in your database. AI in your image searches. AI in your coffee maker. Chances are, it’s AI writing those articles about AI. But underneath all the AI noise, something rather encouraging is happening. Software itself continues to get better. Open-source projects are becoming more secure. Programming languages are getting safer. Databases are becoming more capable. Cloud...

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AI Brain Fry

This is Your Brain on AI: The Hidden Productivity Problem of Brain Fry

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Remember when the biggest workplace concern about technology was spending too much time in meetings? Today, a new phenomenon is quietly making its way into boardrooms, project teams, and office conversations. It has an unofficial name that is surprisingly descriptive: AI Brain Fry. It is not a medical diagnosis, or a term found in a psychology textbook (yet). Instead, it is the growing feeling of mental fatigue, cognitive overload, and reduced critical thinking that can occur when employees rely heavily on generative AI throughout the workday. For business leaders, this is more than...

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