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By operating on the ground in Kenya, the HOT team brought the human touch. The actual data collection activity was entirely led by locals, from introducing the project to flying the drones, and refugees in the camp helped manually identify features in the area. HOT teams flew drones to capture high-resolution aerial imagery and conduct field validation with refugee mappers. But most importantly, they trained and empowered members of the refugee camp—turning data collection into community engagement. Refugees became mappers, interpreters, and stewards of their own environment, creating ground truth data. Their local knowledge added depth and accuracy, giving them…
Apache Spark Connect, introduced in Spark 3.4, enhances the Spark ecosystem by offering a client-server architecture that separates the Spark runtime from the client application. Spark Connect enables more flexible and efficient interactions with Spark clusters, particularly in scenarios where direct access to cluster resources is limited or impractical. A key use case for Spark Connect on Amazon EMR is to be able to connect directly from your local development environments to Amazon EMR clusters. By using this decoupled approach, you can write and test Spark code on your laptop while using Amazon EMR clusters for execution. This capability reduces…
Can you believe it? We’re nearly at the end of 2025. And what a year it’s been! From re:Invent recap events, to AWS Summits, AWS Innovate, AWS re:Inforce, Community Days, and DevDays and, recently, adding that cherry on the cake, re:Invent 2025, we have lived through a year filled with exciting moments and technology advancements which continue to shape our new modern world. Speaking of re:Invent, if you haven’t caught up yet on all the new releases and announcements (and there were plenty of exciting launches across every area), be sure to check out our curated post highlighting the top…
Dec 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cyber Espionage Threat hunters have discerned new activity associated with an Iranian threat actor known as Infy (aka Prince of Persia), nearly five years after the hacking group was observed targeting victims in Sweden, the Netherlands, and Turkey. “The scale of Prince of Persia’s activity is more significant than we originally anticipated,” Tomer Bar, vice president of security research at SafeBreach, said in a technical breakdown shared with The Hacker News. “This threat group is still active, relevant, and dangerous.” Infy is one of the oldest advanced persistent threat (APT) actors in existence, with evidence…
Shipping is central to international trade, facilitating the transport of up to 80% of the world’s goods, from televisions to bananas. This provides a vital, efficient but not necessarily clean means of conveyance for an industry facing new demands on its systems and processes. Shipping’s Contribution to Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions It may not seem so significant numerically, but shipping still contributes roughly 3% of emissions, specifically greenhouse gases. The sector faces important demands to reduce this figure, thus diminishing its environmental impact. Policy Pressure and Workforce Implications Governments enforcing policy, which affect how companies and corporations must tackle their…
A year ago, I posted an article that showed my CV as tuned by ChatGPT 4. As I have witnessed announcements and demonstrations of agent systems over the past months, a vision has started to form in my head that begged me to be written down. This is the shape how I want my software development business to achieve, given a long enough time horizon. Generally people tend to greatly overestimate what kind of progress can be made within one year. And they greatly underestimate the kind of progress that can be achieved in 10 years. We can discuss the…
– Advertisement -It provides comprehensive endpoint, workload, data, and identity visibility and protection across your key risk areas. CrowdStrike Holdings Inc., a cybersecurity business, stated today that it has enhanced the CrowdStrike Falcon platform in order to provide a new endpoint detection and response as well as an extended detection and response solution for what is now known as extended Internet of Things assets. The Internet of Things, operational technology, medical devices, the industrial Internet of Things, and “Industry 4.0” assets are all included in the category known as XIoT. All internet-connected cyber-physical devices can be referred to by this…
Andy Walker / Android AuthorityI want to give Google fair praise; Android Auto is a surprisingly versatile platform. It’s primarily tasked with mirroring phone functionality and information to the dashboards of supported cars. The intention is to make drivers’ lives a little easier, giving them quick access to contacts for calls and messages, music controls, and navigation information. However, for those of us who spend plenty of time waiting in the car, there’s one feature that’s seemingly missing from this list: video playback.The concept is simple: my car has a screen, so surely I should be able to watch a…
The emergence and dissemination of AMR have become a global public health crisis and pose a profound challenge to modern medicine [1]. Since Alexander Fleming’s discovery of the antibacterial activity of penicillin in 1928, antibiotics have been widely employed in antimicrobial therapy. However, the widespread and often indiscriminate use of antibiotics has exerted intense selective pressure on microbial populations, driving the rapid emergence and spread of multidrug-resistant (MDR) strains [2]. Traditionally, antibiotics exert their effects by targeting essential bacterial processes, including protein biosynthesis, DNA replication and repair, and cell cycle progression, thereby selectively inhibiting or eliminating bacterial pathogens [3]. Building…
Microservices have become the de facto architecture for modern backend systems, allowing development teams to create scalable, maintainable, and independently deployable services. Statista data, for example, indicates that as of March 2025, 81.5% of companies have already implemented microservices, and a significant number of them have plans to keep investing in the technology. Among the many languages vying for attention in this field, Go has been the traditional choice, mainly because of its simplicity, speed, and efficient concurrency model. However, not too long ago, Rust was introduced as a viable alternative that offers safety, high performance, and reliability, which, in…