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Discover how cloud cost optimization adapts in the age of AI, with best practices for managing spend, improving efficiency, and maximizing value. In this article This blog post is the second in a multi-part series called Cloud Cost Optimization. Throughout this series, we’ll share practical strategies, best practices, and actionable guidance to help you plan, design, and manage AI investments for sustainable value and efficiency. Cloud cost optimization continues to be a top priority for organizations of every size. As cloud environments grow and workloads scale, leaders are under constant pressure to control spend, reduce waste, and ensure that resources…

The US government has sanctioned a criminal network supporting Southeast Asian scam compounds, including one of Cambodia’s richest and most powerful men. Authorities also seized infrastructure supporting these scam operations and criminally charged two individuals associated with one large compound in Myanmar.Often enough, the scammers who call and text you are enslaved persons in Southeast Asia. You ignore these entreaties, but plenty of vulnerable Americans don’t, and with well-trodden social engineering tactics the scammer-captives can convert a grandma into an ATM for the Asian criminal gangs that run these rackets.In 2024, the US Secret Service and FBI teamed up in…

Orbeez are small water beads made from superabsorbent polymer material. Drop them in water and they expand into soft, squishy balls. They are popular for sensory play, crafts, décor, and toy blasters, but they can be dangerous if swallowed and should never be flushed, composted, or left where young children or pets can reach them. Key Takeaways Orbeez are a branded type of water bead made from superabsorbent polymer material. They expand because their internal polymer structure pulls in and traps large amounts of water. They are usually safe to touch, but they are dangerous if swallowed, inhaled, or inserted…

Smoke alarms and home security systems go a long way toward keeping homeowners safe and sound. They even protect us while we sleep — a blaring alarm can wake the deepest of sleepers in a moment. Or rather, they can wake almost anyone. Deaf individuals would sleep right on through the loudest of noises, rendering these safety measures useless.Fortunately, other solutions have been developed in the past to serve this community. Some of the most effective devices are special pillows equipped with actuators that vibrate to quickly wake a person without sound. But while they are effective, many users find…

Samsung Electronics today announced that its “Coral in Focus” initiative, powered by Ocean Mode,1 an advanced camera feature on the newer Galaxy mobile phones, has received multiple awards for its contributions to coral reef conservation, including Gold in the “Best Sustainability or Conservation Initiative” category at Engage for Good’s 2026 Halo Awards. Additionally, “Coral in Focus,” a documentary tied to the initiative, received the Coastal and Island Culture Award at the 23rd International Ocean Film Festival. Samsung was separately named to Fast Company’s 2026 Most Innovative Companies list for its work advancing mobile innovation in environmental research. These recognitions reflect…

Cancer represents a critical threat to human survival [1]. Current clinical treatments, particularly chemotherapy, targeted therapy and photodynamic therapy, continue to rely on small-molecule drugs [2]. However, their efficacy is often limited by unfavorable physicochemical properties, inadequate pharmacokinetic profiles, and off-target distribution, which collectively complicate formulation design and reduce in vivo delivery efficiency [3], [4]. The emergence of next-generation therapeutics, such as peptide [5], proteins [6] and nucleic acids [7], has introduced additional delivery challenges, as these macromolecules often suffer from poor stability, enzymatic susceptibility, and limited membrane permeability [8]. Nanotechnology-based carriers have attempted to overcome these drawbacks by improving…

Most people who use banking apps never think about what happens behind the scenes when a transaction goes through. They tap a button, money moves, and that’s that. But for the engineers responsible for making sure those transactions work reliably, the reality is considerably more complicated particularly when bugs only reveal themselves under very specific conditions that no test environment ever anticipated. Tanvi Mittal, a software quality engineering practitioner with 15 years of experience in enterprise financial systems, knows this problem intimately. She has spent much of her career building and leading test automation frameworks for large-scale banking applications, and…

AI coding tools have gone from novelty to core infrastructure in under three years. Today, many devs use AI daily, a substantial share of new code is AI-generated, and expectations for automation are rapidly increasing. Sonar is a company specializing in analysis of code quality and security, and they recently released a new survey – the State of Code Developer Survey. The survey provides a deep examination of how developers are using AI in real production environments, and where the real-world gaps and risks still exist. Chris Grams is the CVP of Corporate Marketing at Sonar, and Manish Kapur is…

For over two decades, global Customer Experience (CX) delivery has been anchored in the core principle of cost optimization. The largest and the most effective tool enterprises have used to that end has been through offshore scale. That model is now coming under pressure from a different force altogether. And this time it isn’t technology disruption, but regulatory intent. Recent developments in the US, which include the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) and the proposed Keep Call Centers in America Act (KCCAA), signal a decisive shift toward transparency, customer rights, and tighter control over CX delivery…

In terms of performance, V4 is, perhaps unsurprisingly, a huge jump from R1—and it seems to be a strong alternative to just about all the latest big AI models. On the major benchmarks, according to results shared by the company, DeepSeek V4-Pro competes with leading closed-source models, matching the performance of Anthropic’s Claude-Opus-4.6, OpenAI’s GPT-5.4, and Google’s Gemini-3.1. And compared to other open-source models, such as Alibaba’s Qwen-3.5 or Z.ai’s GLM-5.1, DeepSeek V4 exceeds them all on coding, math, and STEM problems, making it one of the strongest open-source models ever released.  DeepSeek also says that V4-Pro now ranks among…