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Adobe to automatically move subscribers to pricier, AI-focused tier in June

Subscribers to Adobe’s Creative Cloud All Apps plan will be automatically moved to the pricier Creative Cloud Pro subscription starting June 17.
The Creative Cloud Pro subscription will cost $70 per month for individuals committing to an annual plan, up from $60 for the Creative Cloud All Apps plan.
Student and teacher plans will increase from $35/month to $40/month, and team pricing will go up from $90/month to $100/month.
Single-app subscribers will receive only 25 generative AI credits from June 17, down from the current 500 credits.

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Orbit 5.0 adds features to Boston Dynamics’ Spot quadruped robot

Orbit 5.0 for the Spot quadruped robot by Boston Dynamics uses AI to provide insights into site health, detect problems earlier, and offer visual context over time.
Orbit 5.0 applies AI to automatically detect visual anomalies like debris, spills, or corrosion without manual image review, enabling alerts of changes and historical context.
Site View feature in Orbit 5.0 allows users to review site conditions, compare changes, and conduct remote plant walk-throughs using 360° images captured by Spot.
Orbit 5.0 enables centralized management of Spot robots across facilities, including dashboards for aggregating data, automated face blurring, flexible user permissions, and over-the-air updates.

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Exploring the latest features of the Amazon Q Developer CLI

The Amazon Q Developer CLI has been updated with new features and enhancements, focusing on improving user experience and context management.
Users can now persist conversations using the 'q chat --resume' command, saving time and effort in rebuilding context.
New commands '/save' and '/load' allow for explicit saving and restoring of conversation states, aiding in managing multiple threads.
MCP servers are now background-loaded, improving startup time, and 'q mcp' subcommand facilitates server configuration management.
Enhanced context control features include git-aware file selection, fuzzy search for commands, and improved context display.
Dynamically adding context to messages with context hooks enhances response quality without manual management.
New commands like '/usage' and '/compact' help manage context window usage effectively to optimize available space.
The addition of image support in q chat enables sharing visual information for better interaction.
Features like Ctrl + j for newline insertion and /editor command for text editing enhance prompt composition.
Expanded regional support in the Frankfurt region benefits European users with reduced latency and improved service.

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Terraform 1.8 Module Composition: Advanced Techniques for Multi-Cloud Infra

Terraform 1.8 introduces advanced techniques for multi-cloud infrastructure management.
Enhancements include module composition with for_each and dynamic blocks for reusability.
Workspace usage allows per-environment customization and separation.
Best practices emphasize scalability, validation, abstraction, and modular design.

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Meta’s Full-stack HHVM optimizations for GenAI

Meta has launched new products using generative AI (GenAI) and optimized their infrastructure accordingly for better performance.
By splitting GenAI inference traffic into a dedicated WWW tenant, they achieved a 30% latency improvement.
The Web Foundation team at Meta ensures the monolithic web tier infrastructure is efficient.
They limit request runtimes to 30 seconds to balance resources and prevent unavailability due to long-running requests.
Traditional webservers at Meta are optimized for front-end requests with low latencies.
GenAI products like LLMs require longer processing times and have different infrastructure needs.
Web Foundation optimized runtime limits, thread-pool sizing, JIT cache, request warm-up, and shadow traffic for GenAI.
Increasing runtime limits for GenAI requests and customizing configurations improved efficiency.
Optimizations like thread-pool sizing and JIT caching enhanced performance for GenAI workloads.
Meta's focus on real-time configuration and infrastructure adjustments showcases their commitment to optimizing GenAI capabilities.

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3 Blockchain Myths That Hold Businesses Back and What Illusion Services Is Doing Differently

Blockchain is like a secure digital notebook where information is stored in blocks that are linked together in a chain, ensuring tamper-proof and transparent records.
Myth 1: Blockchain is not exclusive to big tech companies; businesses of all sizes and industries can leverage blockchain technology for improved operations and trust-building.
Myth 2: Blockchain is no longer slow and expensive with advancements like Xion, Solana, and Layer 2s offering faster, cost-effective options for businesses to enhance logistics and security.
Myth 3: Understanding and using blockchain doesn't have to be difficult; Illusion Services simplifies blockchain applications through user-friendly designs and a combination of web design, smart contract development, and technical writing.

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How Facebook Live Scaled to a Billion Users

Facebook Live started as a hackathon project to measure video latency and quickly evolved to a platform serving billions of users in months.
The video infrastructure team at Facebook ensures end-to-end video path integrity, focusing on scalability and redundancy.
The infrastructure is built on composable systems with predictable patterns, aiming for low latency, high availability, and smooth playback for every user.
Challenges faced include managing concurrent stream ingestion, unpredictable viewer surges, and hot streams requiring rapid replication.
Live video architecture involves a distributed network of POPs and data centers, ensuring low latency and high reliability for global viewers.
The system dynamically scales to handle viral content, regional traffic variations, and global events as the norm rather than exceptions.
The upload pipeline supports resumability and redundant paths for reliable content delivery, with metadata extraction enabling early processing.
Encoding at scale involves parallel transcoding with adaptive playback support for diverse devices and network conditions.
Live streams benefit from secure RTMP connections, real-time transcoding, and interactive viewer engagement, creating a seamless experience.
Facebook's architecture uses a two-tier caching model for live video distribution, with POPs and data centers handling caching and content delivery efficiently.

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Windows 10’s latest update packs a nasty bug, and while your system might be safe, it’s vital you check now

Windows 10's May update contains a bug that can cause installation failure and automatic repair loops, particularly affecting devices with Intel vPro processors.
Microsoft has released an emergency fix, KB5061768, to address the issue, which must be manually installed.
To avoid problems, users with Intel vPro chips should pause the May update installation and apply the emergency patch.
The bug stems from a termination issue with lsass.exe, prompting repeated failed attempts to install the update and potentially leaving users locked out of their PCs.
For users already impacted, disabling Intel Trusted Execution Technology in the BIOS may resolve the issue, allowing for successful system restart.
Device Encryption or BitLocker users may need their recovery key to navigate recovery screens caused by the bug.
Windows 11 users are also advised to be cautious when upgrading, as clean installs automatically apply Device Encryption, which ties encryption recovery keys to Microsoft accounts.
Deployment of Microsoft's emergency fix and vigilance in applying updates can help avoid potential technical complications and data loss.

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Worldpay and Yabie Team to Boost UK Small Business Payments

Worldpay has partnered with Yabie to enhance small business payments in the UK.
Yabie will help power merchant business tools in Worldpay 360, the new business management solution for SMBs.
This collaboration aims to provide user-friendly POS technology to empower businesses in the UK market.
The solution is available across retail, hospitality, and service sectors, integrating Worldpay's hardware with Yabie's software.

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Medium

To All Leaders Who Helped Shape Me — Thank You

Experiences shared about different types of leaders who have positively impacted the author's career growth, emphasizing trust, effective communication, independence, and team well-being.
Trust-based leadership focuses on fostering growth and giving space to team members, allowing them to take ownership and responsibility.
Effective communication is key to guiding teams, setting expectations, and simplifying complex issues to facilitate understanding and prompt action.
Leaders who demonstrate independence while being protective of their team, focusing on fairness, decisiveness, and team well-being.
Awareness of factors like climate change within teams and the importance of acknowledging imperfections in leadership for continuous learning and growth.

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The emperors of AI coding tools have no clothes – and it’s creating a productivity delusion

The author, with experience in leading AI engineering teams, criticizes the AI coding revolution as a productivity mirage.
While developers spend most of their time on non-coding tasks, AI tools focus on marginal speed improvements in coding.
The '80% problem' in the industry refers to AI tools providing quick solutions for most tasks but struggling with the final 20% that requires human expertise.
AI tools create a dopamine hit of productivity initially but fail to deliver consistent improvement in delivery metrics, as observed by many CTOs.
Developers end up serving AI tools, ferrying context between systems and cleaning up code, leading to new forms of drudgery and technical debt.
To address the issue, CTOs are advised to focus on measurable metrics, prioritize quality over speed, and widen the scope of optimization.
The article emphasizes the importance of eliminating entire steps from processes rather than just optimizing individual tasks.
Companies like Stripe and Netflix excel by streamlining code reviews, testing automation, and removing handoffs between teams, gaining a strategic advantage.
The call-to-action is to treat AI as a system completing entire tasks, measure success through meaningful metrics, and demand AI to adapt to established processes.
The author stresses the need to optimize what truly matters in AI-driven software development to stay competitive and lead in the market.
The article warns that time is running out for companies to embrace a proactive approach towards AI utilization in software development.

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Engadget

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Google I/O 2025: Live updates on Gemini, Android XR, Android 16 updates and more

Google I/O 2025 is set to unveil announcements on artificial intelligence, Gemini, Android XR, and more.
Gemini news includes its AI platform spreading to Wear OS, Android Auto, and Google TV.
Android XR, the mixed reality platform, will be a significant feature at Google I/O.
Developer-focused keynote will follow the main presentation, with breakout sessions scheduled until May 21.

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The World Wide Web and the Death of Graceful Degradation

In the early days of the World Wide Web, website creation was common yet required optimization for slow internet connections and text-only browsers.
Graceful degradation was emphasized to ensure websites could still function minimally even in basic browsers like Lynx.
Nowadays, users are expected to have the latest browsers and fast connections for website access, marking a significant shift.
The focus has shifted from websites as interactive documents to web applications, leading to increased complexity and demands on browsers.
Web development frameworks often require cutting-edge features, disregarding compatibility with older browsers and devices.
Concerns arise over corporate influence on the web, with certain browsers like Chrome dominating testing and feature implementation.
Web apps also contribute to heavier reliance on JavaScript, causing performance issues and hindering access on older systems.
The removal of support for non-encrypted HTTP and excessive JavaScript usage lead to challenges for users with older devices.
Gracious degradation remains important for ensuring website accessibility and functionality, highlighting the user experience over flashy design elements.
Overall, the evolution of the web raises questions on whether current trends align with the preferred user experience.

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DaVinci Resolve 20 Beta 4 Adds Keyframe and Remote Monitoring Upgrades

Blackmagic Design released DaVinci Resolve 20 Beta 4 with keyframe and remote monitoring upgrades.
A new 'flat mode' for keyframe easing was introduced to create realistic pauses in animations.
Curves editor improvements include clip handles and better easing control for fine-tuning effects.
Expanded remote monitoring is now available on Windows systems for DaVinci Resolve Studio users.

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Why do developers choose different types of databases?

The database industry is highly lucrative, with 6 public companies in the U.S. having billion-dollar businesses focused on databases.
There are various types of databases available, and understanding the differences is crucial for investors.
Developers use different databases for a variety of purposes such as powering SaaS apps, analytics queries, real-time systems, and more.
The choice of a particular database depends on the specific use case and the stage of the company's lifecycle.

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