ICE has killed another person in Minneapolis

Federal agents in Minneapolis repeatedly punched a man, forced him to the ground, and then shot him multiple times. The man was later pronounced dead. This is just the latest incident of deadly violence involving ICE, which has grown increasingly frequent, especially on the streets of Minneapolis. It’s been less than three weeks since an […]

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New AI data center buildout being done in secret location to avoid backlash from local residents — ex-crypto mining company doesn’t want publicity for its latest project

A former blockchain mining company that pivoted to AI is keeping its latest data center construction under wraps. Applied Digital, formerly known as Applied Blockchain, announced that it has broken ground on a 430 MW facility somewhere in the Southern United States, although The Register reports that it is yet to publicly reveal its location. […]

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Techdirt 2025: The Stats | Techdirt

from the closing-the-book dept Every year, a little after New Years, I do a post about the previous year of Techdirt traffic and comments. You may notice that we skipped last year’s for 2024. 2025 was so crazy with everything happening, we just didn’t get around to it, and I kept saying I would and […]

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Google Photos can now turn you into a meme

In Big Tech’s never-ending quest to increase AI adoption, Google has unveiled a meme generator. The new Google Photos feature, Me Meme, lets you create personalized memes starring a synthetic version of you. Google describes Me Meme as “a simple way to explore with your photos and create content that’s ready to share with friends […]

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CISA Updates KEV Catalog with Four Actively Exploited Software Vulnerabilities

Ravie LakshmananJan 23, 2026Vulnerability / Software Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added four security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows – CVE-2025-68645 (CVSS score: 8.8) – A PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability […]

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Responsive Hexagon Grid Using Modern CSS

Five years ago I published an article on how to create a responsive grid of hexagon shapes. It was the only technique that didn’t require media queries or JavaScript. It works with any number of items, allowing you to easily control the size and gap using CSS variables. CodePen Embed Fallback I am using float, […]

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11.Create Alarm Using Terraform – DEV Community

Lab Information The Nautilus DevOps team is setting up monitoring in their AWS account. As part of this, they need to create a CloudWatch alarm. Using Terraform, perform the following:Task Details: Create a CloudWatch alarm named xfusion-alarm. The alarm should monitor CPU utilization of an EC2 instance. Trigger the alarm when CPU utilization exceeds 80%. […]

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