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Free YouTube Comment Picker and Giveaway Tool: How to Choose a Fair Winner

A YouTube comment picker is a tool that collects the comments on a YouTube video and randomly selects winners for a giveaway or contest. You paste the video link, set your filters and the tool draws one or more names. Creators use comment pickers because scrolling through hundreds or thousands of comments by hand is slow, error-prone and hard to prove fair. A random draw removes personal bias and gives you a result you can show your audience.

Top Tips: How to consume content without losing your mind

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and share ways to stay ahead. This week, we’re exploring ways to consume information mindfully and avoid overstimulation. Today's internet user consumes content all the time. They listen to podcasts when they commute, watch YouTube when they do household chores, and listen to music when they work. The amount of content they consume is enormous, and the amount of content available is endless.

AI Is Writing More Code. So Why Are Teams Getting Smaller?

AI Is Writing More Code. So Why Aren't Teams Moving Faster? AI can generate 10x, 100x, or even 1,000x more code. But there's a problem: companies aren't necessarily delivering software any faster. As AI accelerates development, it's exposing the bottlenecks, technical debt, and outdated processes that have been slowing engineering teams down all along. So what happens when the solution isn't more developers or better AI tools, but actually smaller teams?

When five agents are looking at the same IT incident, which one makes the decisions?

It’s 2:14 am, and checkout latency at your largest retail store has tripled. Your observability platform’s agent has already posted to Slack that there is a connection pool exhaustion on the orders database, with a link to the trace. Your cloud provider’s agent reports a degraded network path in one availability zone. The AI SRE tool one of your product teams adopted last spring points to a deploy that went out at 1:50.

BigPanda has been recognized as a Niche Player in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Applications in IT Service Management report

On August 17, Gartner placed BigPanda in the Niche Players quadrant of the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Applications in IT Service Management (ITSM). It’s our first time on this MQ, after an honorable mention last year. I’m glad we’re there, and I want to explain why a company that doesn’t sell an ITSM platform reads that as a strong result.

NinjaOne Browser Management

NinjaOne Browser Management extends endpoint management into the browser. It covers Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Firefox on Windows, and runs from the NinjaOne agent and console you already use for patching, remediation, and backup. Most work now happens in the browser, but most IT teams still manage it with GPOs, scripts, or nothing at all. Extensions are the biggest blind spot. Every one is effectively an unmanaged agent running inside the browser, and few tools can see, patch, or remove them.