Month: July 2025

Opera is filing a complaint over Microsoft’s tricks that push you to use Edge

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Microsoft has used a variety of tricks to convince people to keep using the defaults of Bing and Microsoft Edge in Windows over the years, including modifying Chrome download sites and using malware-like popups. Now, Opera is fed up with what it calls Microsoft’s “manipulative design tactics” and is filing a competition complaint in Brazil today, alleging that Microsoft … Read more

Sharge added a rechargeable battery to its sleek retractable charger

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Sharge’s retractable wall charger gets more useful with a built-in rechargeable battery. | Image: Sharge Sharge has demonstrated again and again that the chargers and power banks you use to keep your devices running don’t need to look like boring gray bricks. The company has updated its transparent Retractable 65 wall charger, released earlier this … Read more

Sony’s DualSense Edge is $30 off for a limited time

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The pro-style controller can elevate your gaming experience with several customization features. If you spend a lot of time gaming on the PlayStation 5, you may want a controller that can offer more customization than the standard DualSense. The pro-style DualSense Edge is worth considering, especially now since it’s currently down to $170 ($29.99 off) … Read more

The chaos and confusion of Itch and Steam’s abrupt adult game ban

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Two of the biggest digital games stores have stopped selling thousands of titles following pressure from a coalition of anti-porn advocates and the world’s biggest payment processing companies. It’s happened before, will likely happen again, and is suppressing art, free expression, and marginalized creators. Last week, the indie gaming storefront itch.io sent out a sudden … Read more

5 Java Performance Pitfalls and How Real-World Profiling Can Fix Them

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String concatenation using the + operator in loops continues to cause performance issues in enterprise applications. This article focuses on measuring their impact through profiling and case studies. Long Summary While issues like String concatenation using the + operator in loops are widely known, they continue to cause performance issues in real-world cloud-native and enterprise … Read more

Generate suspicious transaction report drafts for financial compliance using generative AI

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Financial regulations and compliance are constantly changing, and automation of compliance reporting has emerged as a game changer in the financial industry. Amazon Web Services (AWS) generative AI solutions offer a seamless and efficient approach to automate this reporting process. The integration of AWS generative AI into the compliance framework not only enhances efficiency but … Read more

Fine-tune and deploy Meta Llama 3.2 Vision for generative AI-powered web automation using AWS DLCs, Amazon EKS, and Amazon Bedrock

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Fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) has emerged as a crucial technique for organizations seeking to adapt powerful foundation models (FMs) to their specific needs. Rather than training models from scratch—a process that can cost millions of dollars and require extensive computational resources—companies can customize existing models with domain-specific data at a fraction of the … Read more