From Zero to Professional: Building Unlimited Cloud Storage + Website Hosting with AWS S3

A complete implementation guide showing how to create scalable storage, automated lifecycle management, and professional website hosting – all in one solution 🌐 See It In Action: Live Demo 🔗 Live Website: http://s3-casestudy-harry-v26.s3-website.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/ 📝 Important Note: This is the actual website deployed as part of this case study. If the link doesn’t work with HTTPS, […]

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Deconvolution and Checkerboard Artifacts

When we look very closely at images generated by neural networks, we often see a strange checkerboard pattern of artifacts. It’s more obvious in some cases than others, but a large fraction of recent models exhibit this behavior. Mysteriously, the checkerboard pattern tends to be most prominent in images with strong colors. What’s going on? […]

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The new frontier: Meet the power players cashing in on the AI gold rush

If there is one unifying theme across the entire AI industry over the past year, it has been staggering, unprecedented investment. Hundreds of billions of dollars have poured into companies the world over, promising enormous innovation and profit-making opportunities in equal measure. Governments and private enterprises have scrambled to keep pace with its rapid evolution, […]

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Waymo Tells Cops: ‘Get A Warrant’

from the cops-now-being-taunted-by-robots dept Despite being the somewhat crispied face of (extremely limited) unrest in Los Angeles in response to ICE activity, Waymo hasn’t suddenly decided it’s time to get snitchin’. In fact, it’s chosen to go the other direction, as Riley McDermid reports for Gizmodo: Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana recently emphasized that the company will challenge, […]

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The best VR accessories for 2025

Virtual reality headsets are great on their own, but the right accessories can make them more comfortable, practical and immersive. You might want a softer facial interface or a silicone face cover to keep things clean during long sessions, a battery strap to extend playtime or a USB-C cable for faster charging and data transfer. […]

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The Download: AI’s energy future

Three big things we still don’t know about AI’s energy burden —James O’Donnell Earlier this year, when my colleague Casey Crownhart and I spent six months researching the climate and energy burden of AI, we came to see one number in particular as our white whale: how much energy the leading AI models, like ChatGPT […]

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Chinese APT Deploys EggStreme Fileless Malware to Breach Philippine Military Systems

Sep 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Malware An advanced persistent threat (APT) group from China has been attributed to the compromise of a Philippines-based military company using a previously undocumented fileless malware framework called EggStreme. “This multi-stage toolset achieves persistent, low-profile espionage by injecting malicious code directly into memory and leveraging DLL sideloading to execute payloads,” […]

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