Engineering Insights

Google DoubleClick Abused in New Malspam Campaign to Deliver DesckVB RAT

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malspam campaign that makes use of Google's DoubleClick domain as a way to evade detection and ultimately deliver a remote access trojan (RAT) named DesckVB RAT. "Before the victim ever reaches attacker-controlled infrastructure, the lure routes through DoubleClick, a legitimate Google-owned domain that many security tools are less likely to treat as

Reducing container cold start times using SOCI index on DLAMI and DLC

In this post, we look at how to use SOCI on publicly available Deep Learning AMIs and Containers, when to use the various SOCI modes provided by the tool, and how to quickly and efficiently use this tool in your workloads today.

Announcing Angular v22

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Amazon’s search bar will invent AI-generated products you can’t buy

Amazon's updated search bar will now show you AI-generated images of products as you describe them. For now, the in-app feature only surfaces AI images of clothing and home goods, allowing you to tap on the image that best matches what you're looking for and search for similar-looking items. In a blog post, Amazon positions the feature as a way to help you search for items if you can't remember the name of a specific texture or style, like describing a "shirt with a draped collar" if you can't

Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model

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Build a GitHub Slack Bot With AWS Bedrock and MCP, Part 1

I set out to build a simple Slack bot that could answer questions about our GitHub repository — open bugs, pending PRs, and recent releases. Straightforward enough. It turned into 400 lines of API glue code.

What’s new in serverless Managed Service for Apache Spark

Whether you use it for data preparation, real-time interactive queries, AI model training, or something entirely different, running Apache Spark at scale is demanding — you shouldn’t have to manage the underlying infrastructure too. Late last year, we announced the general availability (GA) of our serverless Managed Service for Apache Spark runtime version 3.0, prioritizing speed, simplicity, and reliability. Since then, customer use of Managed Service for Apache Spark for data science has nearl