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Data Broker Radaris Loses Domains in Privacy Fight

The consumer data broker Radaris.com has long had a reputation for ignoring requests to remove personal information from its vast empire of people-search services online. That reputation caught up with the company recently in a lawsuit alleging Radaris violated a New Jersey privacy law that provides for hefty fines against data brokers that publish personal information on state law enforcement officials. In the face of repeated stonewalling and prevarication by attorneys for Radaris, the judge i

The Specialized Diverge Pro 4 makes rough gravel your playground

The Diverge Pro 4 is happiest when the road gets ugly.

Fighting Your Dragons Through Tough Tech Times

Cybersecurity industry veteran Hal Pomeranz gives a pep talk on career anxiety and self-doubt and shares how to build meaningful connections during historical tech industry downturns.

Why Real-Time Data Pipelines Are Becoming the Foundation of Industrial AI

I spent the first six months of a project convinced we had a model quality problem. Our anomaly detection system for manufacturing telemetry was missing obvious defects; things a human operator would catch in seconds. We tried bigger models, better embeddings, more training data. Nothing moved the needle.

Hobby projects now retain fewer deployments to free up storage

Hobby projects now retain fewer deployments past the 30-day retention window. Hobby teams get 10GB of . Every deployment you keep uses some of it, and going over the limit can block you from deploying until you free some up. for Hobby teams now deletes old deployments sooner, so dormant projects stop holding storage that your active projects need.Deployment StorageDeployment Retention Each Hobby project now keeps its 3 most recent production deployments, plus its 3 most recent deployments of an

AWS reimagines the getting started experience

AWS has reimagined the getting started experience with smart and sensible defaults to help developers get started fast so that they can focus on building. New customers can sign up and get started right away with $100 in Free Tier credits, managed project environments, and simplified team and resource permissions. If their workload evolves, customers can activate advanced features to access the full breadth and depth of AWS in one step, with no migration required.

Spain's data agency gets first report of AI-powered data breach

The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) was notified of an attack allegedly carried out with an AI agent powered by a known large language model (LLM). [...]