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Cyberattacks on Minnesota Water Systems Investigated as Officials Warn About Iranian Hackers

Iran has the “geopolitical motivations” and a recent history of targeting water systems, experts pointed out. The post Cyberattacks on Minnesota Water Systems Investigated as Officials Warn About Iranian Hackers appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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NVIDIA Video Codec SDK 13.1: Zero-Copy Transcode, AV1 B-Frames, and Frame-Accurate Seek

The demand for high-quality video continues to accelerate across industries, powering everything from immersive streaming experiences to remote collaboration,... The demand for high-quality video continues to accelerate across industries, powering everything from immersive streaming experiences to remote collaboration, generative AI media tools, and large-scale content delivery. Behind these experiences is a growing need for video pipelines that are faster, more efficient, and capable of handlin

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From generated code to trusted code with a unit-test agent

Meet the open-source polyglot testing agent that learns from a repository, writes unit tests, and checks that they build and pass. The post From generated code to trusted code with a unit-test agent appeared first on .NET Blog.

AI Slop Melodramas Are Taking Over X—and Their Creators Are Cashing In

Viral tales of good triumphing over evil are racking up millions of views. They’re almost entirely AI-generated clickbait.

Deploying a Spring Boot Microservice on AWS Fargate: Lessons From the Outage That Forced Me to Get It Right

My first attempt to deploy a Spring Boot microservice on AWS Fargate didn’t fail loudly. It failed quietly — in a loop. ECS kept launching tasks, the Application Load Balancer kept marking them unhealthy, and the service never stabilized. The logs looked fine, the container looked fine, but the ALB replaced every task within seconds. The root cause was painfully simple: Spring Boot needed 45 seconds to start, and my ALB health‑check timeout was 5 seconds. The tasks never had a chance.