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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, […]
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%. […]
Wilson Lin on FastRender: a browser built by thousands of parallel agents 23rd January 2026 Last week Cursor published Scaling long-running autonomous coding, an article describing their research efforts into coordinating large numbers of autonomous coding agents. One of the projects mentioned in the article was FastRender, a web browser they built from scratch using […]
Here it comes. Up to two-thirds of the US is facing down the threat of serious snow, cold, and ice this weekend, with the potential to snarl roads (and the businesses that depend on them) from Texas up to New York City. At this point, grocery stores, logistics experts, warehouse operators, and trucking companies have […]
Intel and AMD have split the Windows laptop market for years, but the x86 players may be getting outnumbered. It’s not just Apple MacBooks and MediaTek-based Chromebooks using Arm chips anymore. There are finally competent Qualcomm Snapdragon laptops running Windows, and — as soon as this summer — Nvidia will finally power Windows consumer laptops […]
Yann LeCun’s new venture, AMI Labs, has drawn intense attention since the AI scientist left Meta to found it. This week, the startup finally confirmed what it’s building — and several key details have been hiding in plain sight. On its newly launched website, the startup disclosed its plans to develop ‘world models’ in order […]
GPU Price Index by Series The sad state of the memory industry, which is besieged by insanely large memory orders for AI data centers and AI GPUs, has led to increasing prices for gaming graphics cards. Nvidia is purportedly allocating memory based on the amount of money it can make per GB of VRAM, which […]
from the time-to-grow dept Register here for our Growing the Open Social Web Un-Workshop. For over three years now, since Elon Musk decided to spend $44 billion turning Twitter into his personal playground, we’ve been watching the open social web slowly, sometimes painfully, come into its own. Bluesky. Mastodon. The broader ATmosphere and fediverse along […]
TL;DR A newly discovered type of malware uses machine learning to automatically interact with ads and commit fraud. It can also be used to grant hackers access to your screen. The malware is found on certain games distributed through inappropriate app stores, but some have also been found in Xiaomi’s GetApps app store. Update, January […]
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently went on saying that AI still needs to prove its worth if society is to adopt it long-term, but he presumably thinks his company has cracked it with its latest innovation: AI coloring books. A new Microsoft Paint feature currently rolling out to Windows Insiders allows you to generate coloring […]
