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just now (345+ words) Cochlear is integrating conversational voice-to-text functionality into its CRM that could eliminate the need for its "sales road warriors" to type lead management notes into the system after meetings. The system would make use of a number of AWS services, but principally Amazon Lex as the conversational interface and also a recently-launched "AI walled garden" that exists inside of Cochlear. The internal AI system is based on Amazon Bedrock and its agentic extension, Bedrock AgentCore. Cochlear IT networks and telecommunications director Andy McLaughlin told the attendees at the AWS re:Invent summit in Las Vegas that the walled garden was only released internally "about a month or two ago". Cochlear has affectionately named the walled AI system 'Clark' as an homage to pioneer of cochlear implant technology, Dr Graeme Clark. "Imagine [as a sales road warrior] you're out there, you've…...

3+ min ago (83+ words) I focused on learning and practicing Linux basics using my Amazon Linux EC2 instance. Navigation: cd, pwd, ls File/Folder: mkdir, touch, rm, cp, mv Viewing: cat, nano, tail, head Networking: ip a, ping These are essential for any DevOps engineer, and practicing them on EC2 made everything feel more real and practical. find " Search files or folders by name ip a " Show IP details ping " Test internet or server connection These commands are the fundamental building blocks for AWS EC2 and DevOps...

3+ min ago (73+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Courtney Rozen / Reuters: A group of state AGs sent a letter to Meta, Microsoft, Google, Apple, and others warning their chatbots' "delusional outputs" could be violating state laws" " Microsoft, Meta, Google and Apple were among the 13 companies that received a warning from a bipartisan group of state attorneys general " This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 8:15 PM ET, December 10, 2025....

4+ min ago (301+ words) NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that's been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend. NASA said this week that it was working fine before it went behind the red planet. When it appeared again, there was only silence. Launched in 2013, Maven has been studying the upper Martian atmosphere and its interaction with the solar wind since 2014. It also serves as a communication relay for NASA's two Mars rovers, Curiosity and Perseverance. NASA loses contact with its Maven spacecraft orbiting Mars for the past decade This combination of ultraviolet spectrum images provided by NASA shows atmospheric features of the planet Mars in July 2022, left, during the southern hemisphere's summer season, and the planet's northern hemisphere in January 2023 after Mars had passed the farthest point in its orbit from the…...

6+ min ago (260+ words) Hi! This week was pretty hectic and busy due to midterms and the finals that are coming up but I still could put away some time to work on what I had lying around in the folder from last week What I did So far the solution I implemented after watching many tutorials and getting to know how to work with composition seems to be working I worked on the animations for the enemy and its movement plus its physics Still have the player attack animation and the player-enemy interaction to work on though That's it for this week, hope you all stay safe and see you next week! Hi! This week was pretty hectic and busy due to midterms and the finals that are coming up but I still could put away some time to work on what I…...

6+ min ago (513+ words) Viture has the capability and the style, but Luma Ultra still doesn't do as much natively as Xreal One, and that's the real crux. Viture Luma Ultra is finally available after months of waiting, and I've been using them for several weeks now to see how they compare to the best smart glasses. While these are certainly the best pair Viture has made to date, a few missing features are holding them back from true greatness. Viture Luma Ultra upgrades the experience with three total cameras: one in the nose bridge and two on the outer sides of each lens. This enables Viture Luma Ultra to provide full 6DoF spatial tracking, so virtual screens float in place no matter how much you move or walk around. The trick is that you have to use Viture's Spacewalker software to make 6DoF work. In…...

13+ min ago (51+ words) At the scene of one of the deadliest flash floods in Texas history, 8-foot-tall aluminum towers are starting to appear on the banks of the Guadalupe River, part of a flash flood warning system that is being installed. Camp Mystic hopes new flood warning system will prevent future catastrophes...

13+ min ago (277+ words) OnePlus has confirmed that it is temporarily disabling the AI Writer feature in the OnePlus Notes app after multiple users reported technical inconsistencies over the past two days. The company acknowledged the issue through official community updates and stated that the problem will take more time to resolve. While the investigation is ongoing, OnePlus said it is prioritizing a stable and reliable user experience. To prevent further issues and ensure consistency, the company has decided to temporarily disable the AI Writer feature in the Notes app. This step will remain in place until the technical inconsistencies are fully addressed. In its follow up statement, OnePlus clarified that the unexpected behavior was unintentional and does not reflect its product standards. The company emphasized that the pause is a precautionary measure while engineers work on refining the underlying technical issue affecting AI…...

14+ min ago (272+ words) As organizations increasingly adopt SaaS platforms and integrate artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, including large language models (LLMs), the boundaries between DevOps, SRE, and security engineering have blurred. This trajectory is comparable to the rise of the Full-Stack Developer, where specialized roles converged into a single, versatile discipline. The progressive addition and overlap of responsibilities naturally suggest a consolidated role " USRE - that integrates these domains. The Unified SRE (USRE) role encompasses multiple domains of operational engineering, combining the functions of DevOps, SRE, and security-focused engineering. Its core responsibilities can be grouped into six primary areas: USREs design, maintain, and optimize automated pipelines that span from code commit to production deployment. They implement progressive delivery strategies, such as canary releases and feature flags, to safely release updates. By integrating AI-assisted testing and deployment insights, USREs enable faster and smarter release cycles. Defining…...

14+ min ago (499+ words) Over the past few months, I've been working closely with a few small clothing brands, and one problem kept coming up in every conversation: "We can get new inventory fast" but product photos slow everything down." That fascinated me. Most boutiques spend: days coordinating photoshoots money on models + photographers time editing everything and meanwhile, new items sit in inventory waiting for photos One boutique owner told me: "I can add products to Shopify the same day I get them, but photos take 23 weeks. I lose sales every time." That sentence is basically what kicked off this whole project. " Early experiments I started by playing with background removal tools, virtual studios, early AI generation models, pose-transfer models Results were" okay-ish. Cool tech, but nothing you'd confidently publish on a real store. What I really wanted was something like: Upload garment " get…...