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Shai-Hulud Worm Clones Spread After Code Release

The release of Shai-Hulud source code spells trouble for software developers as researchers worry the self-replicating worm could scale.

Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water

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Was my $48K GPU server worth it?

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AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Transform at 1 year, Claude Platform on AWS, EC2 M3 Ultra Mac instances, and more (May 18, 2026)

Just a year ago, we launched AWS Transform for .NET, Mainframe and VMware workloads, the first agentic AI service purpose-built for modernizing enterprise applications at scale. At re:Invent 2025, we introduced AWS Transform custom, which enables organizations to modernize and transform code at scale using AWS-managed and custom transformations. You can upgrade language versions, migrate […]

The Third Culture: Blending Teams With Different Management Models

When talking about different management models, it’s common to divide them culturally by nationality or mindset. The most well-known example you’ve probably heard many times is the difference between “Eastern” and “Western” teams, where the Eastern model is, on average, characterized by higher power distance and higher uncertainty avoidance, while Western Europe tends to have lower power distance and greater tolerance for ambiguity. However, this is only one way of looking at the issue. In reali

Prompting Amazon Nova 2 for content moderation

In this post, you learn how to prompt Amazon Nova 2 Lite for content moderation using structured and free-form approaches, grounded in the MLCommons AILuminate Assessment Standard. The prompting techniques use the AILuminate taxonomy as an example, but they work equally well with your own custom moderation policy. You can swap in your own category definitions and the prompt structure stays the same. We also benchmark the content moderation capabilities of Amazon Nova 2 Lite against several found

Simplify AI infrastructure for AWS Trainium and Elastic Fabric Adapter with Kubernetes Dynamic Resource Allocation

As organizations scale AI workloads in containerized environments, they face the complexity of managing specialized hardware that creates friction between infrastructure teams focused on stability and machine learning (ML) practitioners focused on model performance. Kubernetes Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) provides the foundation to solve these problems. We built the Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) DRA driver in the upstream DRANET project and the Neuron DRA driver for AWS Trainium to extend th

Flutter’s multiplatform value for agentic development