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We've tried Google Pixel 9's new Gemini Astra upgrade, and users are in for a real treat

Google Pixel 9 smartphones now have access to Gemini Live Astra capabilities, providing impressive features.
Gemini Astra allows users to chat about what they see on their screen and utilizes Visual AI technology.
The upgrade is free and was recently made available for Samsung S25 devices as well.
Gemini Astra is accessible through the Gemini Live interface, granting users conversational abilities with AI.
Users can interact with Gemini Live's camera and screen share options, enhancing their experience.
Gemini Live accurately identifies objects and provides information about them, showcasing its capabilities.
While it cannot perform Google searches, Gemini Live excels at brainstorming, identifying items, and answering questions.
Screen sharing with Gemini allows users to get guidance on navigating their phone's features.
Gemini Live's functionality in both camera and screen share modes is impressive, offering convenience and accuracy.
Overall, the Gemini Astra upgrade enhances the Pixel 9 user experience by integrating powerful AI features.

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Nvidia’s RTX 5060 might lack one key spec, but there’s still hope

Nvidia’s RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti are expected soon with a 128-bit memory bus, raising concerns for 2025 performance.
Leaked shipping data revealed the use of the GB206 GPU on RTX 5060 series with a 128-bit memory interface.
Previous generation RTX 4060 Ti’s shortcomings may hint at potential issues for the upcoming cards.
Despite narrow memory bus, the shift to GDDR7 memory in RTX 50-series might improve performance.
AMD is expected to follow Nvidia's approach with 8GB and 16GB VRAM while maintaining a 128-bit interface.
The RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti could cater well to the current GPU market demand due to high prices and low stock levels.
The pricing of the new GPUs is expected to be similar to the previous generation RTX 4060 Ti.
Question arises if 8GB VRAM will be sufficient for AAA games by 2025 considering increasing demand for higher VRAM.
DLSS technology might assist in enhancing performance of these GPUs, despite potential VRAM limitations.
Nvidia's official announcement of the RTX 5060 series is expected on April 15, shedding more light on their capabilities.

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ChatGPT free users, look away now! OpenAI is testing watermarks on image generation that could render the feature redundant unless you pay

OpenAI is testing watermarks on ChatGPT 4o's image generation.
Watermarks could affect free users of ChatGPT.
Paid ChatGPT subscribers are likely to not see watermarking on images.
The move is in response to copyright concerns and may drive more paid subscriptions.

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What’s Shaping the Future of Digital Lending? Key Trends to Watch

Digital lending is revolutionizing the financial industry, driven by technological advancements and changing consumer demands.
The shift to digital-first approaches is spurred by the need for seamless, fast, and personalized financial solutions.
The pandemic accelerated digital transformation in banking, emphasizing cloud migration, AI-driven analytics, and cybersecurity enhancements.
Digital lending simplifies credit access by eliminating traditional intermediaries and streamlining processes through automation and data analysis.
Compared to traditional lending, digital lending offers convenience, speed, competitive interest rates, and expanded financial inclusion.
Key features of digital lending include seamless application processes, instant loan disbursals, and automated credit assessments.
Trends shaping digital lending's future include cloud-first strategies, data-driven analytics, hyper-personalization, and intelligent automation.
AI-enhanced underwriting, embedded finance, blockchain, cybersecurity innovations, and customer-centric lending are key trends to watch.
The future of finance lies in leveraging technology for faster, more inclusive, and secure lending experiences.
Financial institutions need to balance innovation with customer-centricity, transparency, and cybersecurity for sustainable digital lending growth.

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Windows 11 users are getting fixes for some longstanding bugs in 24H2 today, including the cure for a seriously annoying File Explorer glitch

Microsoft is deploying the monthly patch for Windows 11 24H2 today
The update includes a fix for a File Explorer bug where the flyout menu extended upwards instead of down
The patch also resolves issues with wake-from-sleep functionality, including a Blue Screen of Death upon waking
Microsoft is gradually rolling out the fixes, and users may have to wait to receive them

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NexGen Cloud secures €41 million to expand sovereign AI infrastructure in Europe

London-based NexGen Cloud has raised €41 million in a Series A funding round to expand its sovereign AI infrastructure in Europe.
The funding will support the company's mission to provide hyperscale-like capacity globally, with a focus on delivering sovereign capabilities in Europe.
NexGen Cloud offers enterprise AI cloud solutions, including private clouds for large-scale sovereign AI environments and on-demand GPU access.
The investment will be used to scale NexGen Cloud's infrastructure and expand its full stack cloud capabilities to support production-ready AI applications.

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Inside the Quietly Powerful Architecture That Powers Spotify’s Recommendations

An event-driven system reacts to events instead of direct requests, allowing for asynchronous communication through event notifications.
Key components include Event Producers, Event Routers (e.g., SNS, EventBridge), and Event Consumers (e.g., SQS, Lambda).
Event-Driven systems differ from synchronous systems in processing (non-blocking), latency (immediate response), and fault tolerance (isolated failures).
They are useful for systems dependent on events or for handling expensive asynchronous data processing for low latency requests.
A personalized playlist example is used to illustrate event-driven architecture in Spotify for updating music preferences based on user interactions.
The architecture involves components like Amazon SNS, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Fargate, and more for efficient event processing.
Advantages include instant user experience, scalable event processing, optimized costs, and decoupled services, while challenges include complex debugging and event ordering.
Despite challenges, event-driven systems leveraging AWS services ensure real-time API responses, high availability, cost efficiency, and scalability.
Monitoring tools like AWS X-Ray, CloudWatch, and SQS DLQs help mitigate risks in event-driven architectures.
In conclusion, adopting an event-driven approach in applications using AWS services can enhance scalability and user experience for large-scale systems.

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Nvidia RTX 5050 and 5060 leaks suggest these mobile GPUs could be pepping up budget gaming laptops soon

Lenovo, LG, and Razer leaked laptops carrying RTX 5050 and 5060 GPUs.
VideoCardz reports that these laptop graphics cards are expected to arrive in two weeks.
Laptops from Lenovo, LG, and Razer accidentally mentioned the GPUs in press material or product listings.
Nvidia may switch back to GDDR6 VRAM for the RTX 5050, while the desktop version is rumored to be the RTX 5060 Ti.

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US Power Utilities Receive Massive AI Data Centre Requests

US energy utilities are receiving massive requests for power from data centre companies, exceeding their peak demand or existing generation capacity.
This creates a complicated situation for utilities as they try to project real demand and how to meet it.
In response to the increased demand, utilities are announcing billions in additional capital expenditures.
Tech companies approaching multiple power utility providers, inflating power demand projections.

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iCloud Usage Policy

Enhance your usage of Apple iCloud services whenever accessing, connecting to, or otherwise interacting with organization systems, services, data, and resources.
Customizable Document — Use the IT policy as-is or edit as you see fit.
Improve Your Processes — This seven-page document outlines storage, personal equipment, and more.
Expert Authorship — Written by Erik Eckel through 14 hours of research, writing, and editing.

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Finland:105,000 Satula.com Records Exposed in Unsecured AWS.

Finland-based company Satula.com exposed 105,000 records in an unsecured AWS bucket.
The company, specializing in horse saddles, was informed about the data exposure but did not respond.
The National Cyber Security Centre of Finland (NCSC-FI) stepped in and helped close the bucket after several emails.
The exposed data included personal information, such as names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, and IBANs.

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Microsoft considers developing AI models to better control Copilot features

Microsoft is considering developing AI models independent of its partnership with OpenAI.
The partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI has had collaborative concerns over OpenAI's GPT-4.
Microsoft aims to build and develop its own AI models to lower production costs and target specific use cases.
The move indicates Microsoft's effort to be less reliant on OpenAI for its artificial intelligence needs.

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Revolutionizing DevOps with AI: Building an LLM-Based Automation Engineer

LLMs excel at automating DevOps tasks by generating human-like text.
The AI bot is integrated with tools like Git, Terraform, and Ansible using MCP, an open standard.
RAG enhances the bot's intelligence by incorporating external context and existing modules before generating responses.
The project aims to continuously expand with multi-modal inputs, continuous learning, and more tool integrations.

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Mastering AWS Infrastructure Monitoring with Trusted Advisor Dashboard

AWS Trusted Advisor serves as a cloud expert to analyze AWS environment.
The AWS Trusted Advisor Dashboard is a Grafana-based solution that transforms data into actionable insights.
The dashboard provides real-time monitoring, color-coded severity indicators, and comprehensive metrics.
It enables monitoring and identification of underutilized resources, security group configurations, and service limits.

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Tracking Your Cloud Spend: A Beginner’s Guide to AWS Billing and Cost Management

AWS provides tools to monitor, predict, and control cloud costs.
The tools help in understanding AWS billing and cost management.
IAM users with the right permissions can access cost reports and budgets.
The 'Cost Explorer' tool allows users to track costs by service.

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