Over $1 billion in federal funding got slashed for this polluting industry

The startup’s approach is to make cement using electricity. The conventional process requires high temperatures typically achieved by burning fossil fuels, so avoiding that could prevent a lot of emissions.  In 2024, Sublime received an $87 million grant from the DOE to construct a commercial demonstration plant in Holyoke, Massachusetts. That grant would have covered […]

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Google Exposes Vishing Group UNC6040 Targeting Salesforce with Fake Data Loader App

Jun 04, 2025Ravie Lakshmanan Threat Intelligence / Data Breach Google has disclosed details of a financially motivated threat cluster that it said “specialises” in voice phishing (aka vishing) campaigns designed to breach organizations’ Salesforce instances for large-scale data theft and subsequent extortion. The tech giant’s threat intelligence team is tracking the activity under the moniker […]

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🚀 Deploying a Static Website with AWS under $1 per month

No servers. No maintenance headaches. Just pure web magic. Here’s how I created “https://www.cloudprojects.site/“ using AWS services that scale automatically and never go down. The results will shock you. 👇 This is how the website looks like: ❌ The Old Way (Traditional Hosting):• Monthly server costs: $20-50+• Constant updates and patches• Downtime during traffic spikes• […]

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Stack Exchange knowledge is for everyone (and now available on Snowflake Marketplace)

As generative AI tools proliferate throughout the software industry, we’ve seen the increased importance of training language models on good data. LLMs provide knowledge faster than most manual searches, but bad data doesn’t translate to knowledge—“garbage in, garbage out” has become the mantra of the AI industry. High-quality data makes LLMs perform accurately and efficiently; […]

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Exploring Bayesian Optimization

Many modern machine learning algorithms have a large number of hyperparameters. To effectively use these algorithms, we need to pick good hyperparameter values. In this article, we talk about Bayesian Optimization, a suite of techniques often used to tune hyperparameters. More generally, Bayesian Optimization can be used to optimize any black-box function. Let us start […]

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