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.

Follow her on Twitter at @MariaKorolov, on Threads at @MariaKorolov, and check out her latest videos on the Maria Korolov YouTube channel.

Latest AI articles

Red Hat’s AI portfolio evolves to address enterprise deployment challenges

Red Hat’s AI portfolio evolves to address enterprise deployment challenges

Mar 26, 2025

Red Hat has expanded its AI portfolio with tools designed to simplify the transition from experimentation to production environments.

Data center growth puts unprecedented pressure on power grids

Data center growth puts unprecedented pressure on power grids

Jan 24, 2025
Data center power demand is spurred by AI and other high-performance computing needs, researchers say.
Fast vs. slow: the real impact of AI adoption speed

Fast vs. slow: the real impact of AI adoption speed

Jan 15, 2025
With the advent of generative AI, the pace of technological change has greatly accelerated. Is it better to take risks and experiment, or wait for proven use cases before jumping in?
12 AI predictions for 2025

12 AI predictions for 2025

Dec 31, 2024
This year we’ve seen AI move from pilots into production use cases. In 2025, they’ll expand into fully-scaled, enterprise-wide deployments.

Latest quantum computing articles

Amazon claims to cut quantum computing timeline by 5 years with new Ocelot chip

Amazon claims to cut quantum computing timeline by 5 years with new Ocelot chip

Feb 27, 2025

Amazon Ocelot chip will cut error correction overhead by 90% and bring practical quantum computing closer to fruition, but some experts are skeptical

dummy-img

Quantum Computing for the Pharmaceutical Industry

Mar 1, 2023
Pharmaceutical companies are using quantum computers to make drug discovery faster and safer.
dummy-img

Quantum Computing for the Supply Chain – Delivering New Efficiencies

Feb 22, 2023
A new report from Enter Quantum explains how supply chain enterprises are turning to quantum computers to solve routing problems. Finding optimal delivery routes gets incrementally more difficult the more stops are added. Factor in the other variables that might affect the supply chain and you quickly exceed the constraints of current classical computing, leading […]
dummy-img

How Quantum Computing is Supporting Financial Services

Jan 9, 2023
The financial services industry has been one of the first to benefit from emerging quantum computing solutions, which can support use cases including targeting and prediction, trading optimization and risk profiling.

Latest Cybersecurity articles

10 most critical LLM vulnerabilities

10 most critical LLM vulnerabilities

Oct 15, 2024

From prompt injections to model theft, OWASP has identified the most prevalent and impactful vulnerabilities found in AI applications based on large language models (LLMs).

Generative AI poised to make substantial impact on DevSecOps

Generative AI poised to make substantial impact on DevSecOps

Mar 11, 2024
Generative AI could be the holy grail of DevSecOps, from writing secure code and documentation to creating tests. But it could be a major point of failure if not used correctly.
How GenAI helps entry-level SOC analysts improve their skills

How GenAI helps entry-level SOC analysts improve their skills

Mar 5, 2024
By automating repetitive triage and documentation tasks, generative AI systems allow entry-level security analysts to spend more time on investigations, response, and developing core skills.
Assessing and quantifying AI risk: A challenge for enterprises

Assessing and quantifying AI risk: A challenge for enterprises

Jan 30, 2024
Risks associated with artificial intelligence have grown with the use of GenAI and companies must first understand their risk to create the best protection plan.

Latest Networking articles

Network convergence will drive enterprise 6G wireless strategies

Network convergence will drive enterprise 6G wireless strategies

Jan 16, 2025

Enterprise wireless deployments are facing a significant inflection point, according to a new industry roadmap.

VMware, Nvidia team on enterprise-grade AI platform

VMware, Nvidia team on enterprise-grade AI platform

Aug 22, 2023
VMware Private AI Foundation with Nvidia will enable enterprises to customize models and run generative AI applications on their own infrastructure in their data centers, at the edge, and in their clouds.
dummy-img

Hybrid mesh firewall platforms gain interest as management challenges intensify

Aug 15, 2023
Different types of firewalls, including hardware, virtual, cloud-native, and firewall as a service, can be deployed and managed from a central interface with a hybrid mesh firewall platform.
dummy-img

Flight to cloud drives IaaS networking adoption

Aug 1, 2023
Demand for cloud connects/interconnects is rising as enterprises commit to multicloud and SaaS application environments, and that’s driving greater interest in IaaS cloud networking services, says IDC.
dummy-img

Gartner: SSE landscape shifts as vendors add more security services

Jul 12, 2023
Vendors are stacking their security service edge (SSE) suites with even more security functions, according to the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant.
dummy-img

5G network slices could be vulnerable to attack, researchers say

May 22, 2023
Configuration errors and device vulnerabilities could allow attackers to move laterally across 5G network slices.

latest Awards

latest Appearances

older Awards and Appearances

Judge, 2019 CSO50 awards

Maria is one of the judges of the annual CSO50 awards, which recognize 50 organizations for their security project or initiative that demonstrates outstanding business value and thought leadership.

Judge, Epica Awards

Maria is a member of the jury of the 2018 Epica awards, the only global creative prize judged by journalists.

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

BBC Image

May 2016: Interviewed by the BCC about how virtual reality will change our lives. Listen to the broadcast hereRead the transcript here.

Sep. 2015: Mentioned in Fortune’s Meet the women shaping our virtual future.

Latest Blog Posts

Online database update — Airtable looks extremely promising

Aug 13, 2017
Online database update — Airtable looks extremely promising

Six years ago, DabbleDB was shut down. It was a major blow, since I had been using their easy but powerful online database for everything…

How to create a website that looks like this one

Jun 11, 2017
How to create a website that looks like this one

A couple of my friends have been redoing their professional portfolio websites lately, which inspired me to do some research on current trends in business…

Basic marketing for a freelance writer

Jun 19, 2016
dummy-img

I work with a lot of beginning freelance writers, and enjoy seeing them move up to larger publications. They all understand the need to improve…

Five Step Question Meditation

Feb 26, 2013
dummy-img

I learned this at a business seminar in Shanghai a few years ago, and no longer remember the source, but it’s proved extremely effective for…

Dabble Postmortem

May 17, 2011
Dabble Postmortem

Tomorrow is the last day for Dabble DB, an online database services on which I ran my company for the past few years. The migration…

Give me that old-time COBOL code

May 14, 2011
Give me that old-time COBOL code

Just take those manuals off the shelf I’ll sit and read them here all by myself Today’s software ain’t got the same soul I like…