It’s not just you: Reddit is down

Reddit’s mobile and web applications went down on Wednesday afternoon, with more than 150,000 users reporting outages on DownDetector as of 1:30 PM in San Francisco. When trying to access Reddit’s homepage, users were met with a message reading, “Server error. Try again later.” While third-party reports can be unreliable at times, the company itself … Read more

Connect the Amazon Q Business generative AI coding companion to your GitHub repositories with Amazon Q GitHub (Cloud) connector

Incorporating generative artificial intelligence (AI) into your development lifecycle can offer several benefits. For example, using an AI-based coding companion such as Amazon Q Developer can boost development productivity by up to 30 percent. Additionally, reducing the developer context switching that stems from frequent interactions with many different development tools can also increase developer productivity. … Read more

The Top C# .NET UI Controls

When you’re choosing UI controls for C# .NET development, there are many things you should consider. You’re not just looking for a one-size-fits-all solution. You want a toolkit that’s packed with features, versatile enough to handle any project you throw at it, and one that will hold up over time as technologies evolve. Let’s take … Read more

Meta is going to let preteens use Horizon Worlds

Image: Meta Meta is opening up Horizon Worlds, its 3D social platform, to users between the ages of 10 and 12, the company announced on Wednesday. As part of the rollout, parents will have a significant amount of control over what experiences their preteens can access, and experiences will get age ratings to help parents … Read more

Reddit is back online after a brief outage

Image by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit experienced a widespread outage that impacting the entire site and subreddits earlier today. Millions of Reddit users were met with a “Server error. Try again later” message in a red banner at the top of the site for around 45 minutes today. The same outage error was … Read more

Elevate customer experience through an intelligent email automation solution using Amazon Bedrock

Organizations spend a lot of resources, effort, and money on running their customer care operations to answer customer questions and provide solutions. Your customers may ask questions through various channels, such as email, chat, or phone, and deploying a workforce to answer those queries can be resource intensive, time-consuming, and unproductive if the answers to … Read more

Build an end-to-end RAG solution using Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock and the AWS CDK

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a state-of-the-art approach to building question answering systems that combines the strengths of retrieval and generative language models. RAG models retrieve relevant information from a large corpus of text and then use a generative language model to synthesize an answer based on the retrieved information. The complexity of developing and … Read more

FOMO HOUR 189 – TRUMP LAUNCHES MORE NFTS

BTC ETFs: -$127m, ETH ETFs: -$3m. BTC hits $58k after ETF outflows, then bounces. BTC sees largest exchange outflow in a year. Divergence between BTC & stocks grows. TON stops producing blocks briefly, price bounces. TON outage linked to DOGS launch. Maker DAO rebrands as Sky. USDS upgrade from DAI will have freezing function. Robinhood … Read more

CulturaX: A High-Quality, Multilingual Dataset for LLMs – Conclusion and References

:::info Authors: (1) Thuat Nguyen, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Oregon, OR, USA; (2) Chien Van Nguyen, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Oregon, OR, USA; (3) Viet Dac Lai, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Oregon, OR, USA; (4) Hieu Man, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Oregon, OR, USA; (5) Nghia Trung … Read more

Fluid Truck’s board ousted its sibling co-founders amid allegations of mismanaging funds

Fluid Truck, a startup that was founded to disrupt the commercial vehicle rental industry, has ousted its sibling co-founders – CEO James Eberhard and chief legal counsel Jenifer Snyder – according to sources familiar with the matter. The shakeup, which employees have described as a hostile takeover, was led by two minority investors on the … Read more