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The AI-Powered PDF Marks the End of an Era

When it was first released by Adobe in 1993, the PDF was truly transformative technology. The Portable Document Format was a multipurpose container that replicated the appearance and functionality of physical documents. That sounds unimportant, but as adoption spread with Adobe’s introduction of free Acrobat software for reading PDFs a year later, anyone, from the…

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KEDA to build Event-Driven Applications on EKS

Event-driven applications aren’t new, but the patterns and discussion in the context of the cloud are hard to miss these days. It’s hard to argue with the patterns and practices because with events, I can build systems that are more reliable, available, and tolerant of fault and issues that arise both in and out of…

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Dell 14 Premium Review: Hello Old Friend

The port selection is another design choice that’s easy to complain about. On the left, you get two Thunderbolt 4 ports, while the right side has one more Thunderbolt 4 port, a microSD card slot, and a headphone jack. This is unchanged from last year’s model. I wasn’t expecting a move to Thunderbolt 5, though…

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Kotlin:’Generics’ Questions – DEV Community

In this blog post, we’ll tackle some interesting coding questions related to Kotlin generics. But first, let’s quickly recap the fundamentals. Generics in Kotlin allow us to write classes, interfaces, and functions with a placeholder for a type, so as to create reusable and type-safe code that can work with different types. Kotlin has declaration-site…

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Oregon Man Charged in ‘Rapper Bot’ DDoS Service – Krebs on Security

A 22-year-old Oregon man has been arrested on suspicion of operating “Rapper Bot,” a massive botnet used to power a service for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against targets — including a March 2025 DDoS that knocked Twitter/X offline. The Justice Department asserts the suspect and an unidentified co-conspirator rented out the botnet to online…

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