Articles for category: Software (Tech & Development)

March 29, 2025

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Today’s NYT Connections Hints, Answers for March 30, #658

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. I love today’s blue category in the NYT Connections puzzle, but then I’m a big fan of plays and musicals. If you are too, you should have no problem with that grouping. Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the

March 29, 2025

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Sony has been backing up its PS5 game builds as part of a preservation effort

Back in 2022, Sony hired Garrett Fredley to join its then newly formed Preservation team, which has been working to find and save documentation of PlayStation's 30-year history since then. Now, Fredley spoke at Game Developers Conference to give an update about his team's efforts. In his Game File newsletter, Stephen Totilo has shared the details about Fredley's talk. Apparently, the team formed what it's calling the PlayStation Studios Vault to store everything it could find about Sony's game-making history.  The Vault now houses game builds, source code and source art, but it has all kinds of other files, as

March 29, 2025

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Are Tech-Driven ‘Career Meltdowns’ Hitting Generation X?

“I am having conversations every day with people whose careers are sort of over,” a 53-year-old film and TV director told the New York Times: If you entered media or image-making in the ’90s — magazine publishing, newspaper journalism, photography, graphic design, advertising, music, film, TV — there’s a good chance that you are now doing something else for work. That’s because those industries have shrunk or transformed themselves radically, shutting out those whose skills were once in high demand… When digital technology began seeping into their lives, with its AOL email accounts, Myspace pages and Napster downloads, it didn’t

March 29, 2025

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Building an Intelligent AI System for Dairy Farm Management: The FarmersMilk Story

The AI systems I developed for FarmersMilk, a dairy tech platform combining .NET, Blazor, Python, FastAPI, and AI agents to transform traditional farm operations. This real-world implementation demonstrates my ability to design scalable, intelligent systems for rural agritech. As the sole architect and developer, I conceptualized and implemented every component of this system, from hardware integration to AI agent design. When I began developing FarmersMilk, I had a straightforward goal: to digitize operations for our family dairy farm in India. I soon realized this project required more than basic digital tools—it needed intelligent systems that could analyze, predict, and take

March 29, 2025

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How to Protect Data, Models, and Users

Editor’s Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone’s 2025 Trend Report, Generative AI: The Democratization of Intelligent Systems. Generative AI (GenAI) is transforming how organizations operate, enabling automation, content generation, and intelligent decision making at an unprecedented scale. From AI-powered chatbots to advanced code generation and creative design, GenAI is revolutionizing industries by increasing efficiency and innovation. However, alongside these advancements come significant security risks that organizations must address. The challenge is that as AI systems become more intelligent and sophisticated, they also face evolving threats and risks. Ensuring AI security throughout development and deployment is

March 29, 2025

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Watch All of the Commercials That David Lynch Has Directed: A Big 30-Minute Compilation

Some film­mak­ers start in com­mer­cials, hon­ing their chops in antic­i­pa­tion of mak­ing per­son­al projects lat­er. A select few go in the oth­er direc­tion, real­iz­ing their dis­tinc­tive vision before field­ing offers from com­pa­nies who want a piece of that vision’s cul­tur­al cur­ren­cy. Any­one who’s seen David Lynch’s most acclaimed work will sus­pect, cor­rect­ly, that Lynch belongs in the lat­ter group. With 1977’s cult hit Eraser­head, he showed cin­e­ma what it means to be Lynchi­an. This brought him the atten­tion of Hol­ly­wood, lead­ing to the respectable suc­cess of The Ele­phant Man and the dis­as­ter that was Dune. Only in 1986, with Blue Vel­vet, could Lynch make a tru­ly, even

March 29, 2025

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Endor: WebAssembly-Based Server in the Browser

BARCELONA – WebAssembly has demonstrated its power with extremely fast start times, security advantages and other capabilities. Initially designed for the browser, it is now extending to the server and the edge as the WASI component standards take shape. During the Wasm I/O conference held here this week, it was shown how WebAssembly’s various capabilities and individual services can now be combined into a structured environment enabled entirely within the browser. There is nothing to download — yet a full server and development environment capability is available directly in the browser. These server capabilities that can be launched and managed

March 29, 2025

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First time looking for a DevOps role – what should I prepare for?

Hi all, I could use some advice! I’m an international grad student currently in the U.S., and I’ll be looking for a DevOps role this summer under CPT. I’ve worked as a software engineer for 7+ years before this, but I’ve never held a DevOps-specific title. That said, I’ve spent much time working with AWS cloud services, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-related tasks alongside development work. I’ve got some AWS certifications and the Kubernetes CKAD under my belt, and I’m now preparing for interviews. But since this is my first time actively job hunting in the DevOps space, I’m not sure

March 29, 2025

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Tried AI for UI design—here’s what I found out

I’ve been experimenting with different AI tools to speed up UI design, and the results have been pretty impressive. Some are better for generating entire layouts while others shine at refining components or improving UX. Here’s what I’ve found so far: Uizard – Best for turning sketches into UI. You can literally draw a wireframe on paper, scan it, and Uizard transforms it into a working UI design. Great for rapid prototyping without manually building everything from scratch. Galileo AI – Best for Figma users & auto-generated UI. You describe what you need in plain text, and it generates Figma-ready