Author: Vidya Saras
There’s something pleasantly familiar about the way Mabel (Selena Gomez), Oliver (Martin Short), and Charles (Steve Martin) interact in Martin and John Hoffman’s Hulu Original, Only Murders in the Building. For four seasons, we’ve followed them successfully solve murders and tuned in to their true-crime podcast. The newest, 5th season only further proves that the creators and crew still have the verve and enthusiasm to deliver witty, cohesive “whodunnit” stories. Hulu No sooner has Oliver tied the knot with his beloved Loretta (Meryl Streep) than chaos returns to the Arconia. The trio barely has a moment to bask in post-wedding…
By Katherine K. Chan THE BANGKO SENTRAL ng Pilipinas (BSP) may hold off further monetary easing in October after inflation rose to a five-month high in August, with analysts expecting the central bank to deliver its last interest rate cut for the year in December. Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank) Chief Economist Ruben Carlo O. Asuncion said it would be difficult for the BSP to justify another reduction in borrowing costs next month given the rebound in price pressures. “Given the upside surprise in headline and core inflation, a rate cut in October looks unlikely,” Mr. Asuncion said in…
The Ethereum price is once again drawing attention as a strong bullish setup begins to take shape on the charts. Analyst Merlijn the Trader says buyers are stepping in after repeated rebounds, showing that the market could be shifting in favor of the bulls. He points out that momentum is now building, but one key resistance level still stands in the way. According to the analyst, this is the kind of setup that often sparks explosive moves to higher targets. Ethereum Price Forms Triple Bottom Pattern According to Merlijn the Trader, Ethereum is now showing a clear triple bottom pattern…
The Kinto token, the governance token of the Kinto Network, has plummeted over 80% after its team announced that its Ethereum layer-2 blockchain is shutting down at the end of September, following months of setbacks.Kinto raised $1 million in debt to restore trading on its “modular exchange” after an industry-wide hack in July drained about 577 Ether (ETH) worth around $1.6 million from the protocol. However, worsening market conditions “killed further fundraising,” forcing the crypto project to shut down, Kinto posted to Medium on Sunday. “Every day that we go on, the funds dwindle further. We’ve operated without salaries since July, and…
The Foundation believes Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) should not be published as a W3C Recommendation, and we are now making public the formal objection the Ethereum Foundation submitted to the W3C opposing the recommendation of EME. As a member of the W3C, the Ethereum Foundation contributes to the standards-making process and votes on matters such as the EME recommendation. Many developers and researchers at the Ethereum Foundation conduct security research and build software that use web technology, and from that perspective, we have objections to EME as well as Digital Rights Management (DRM) in general. Most if not all people who use…
The XRP price is moving sideways between 1.9022 and 3.5887. Based on forecasts, XRP could reach around $3 in 2025 and trade between $5 and $7 by 2030. If it breaks above 3.5887, the next ATH may reach $4.2–$5.1. On the other hand, if it falls below 1.9022, the price could drop further to 1.61–1.16, or even back to 0.75.XRP Technical AnalysisXRP is ranging between two key levels, 1.9022 and 3.5887, and a big move is expected once the price breaks out of this range.Resistance levels inside the range: 2.9585 – 3.2706 – 3.5887Support levels inside the range: 2.5385 –…
Choices made in Washington affect economies across the globe. Lately, conversations surrounding a national Bitcoin Reserve have gained traction. The United States holds a significant position in global commerce. Its dollar continues to be the preferred medium for international settlements. Choices made in Washington affect economies across the globe. Lately, conversations surrounding a national Bitcoin Reserve have begun to gather traction. Bitcoin (BTC) functions as a distributed substitute for traditional fiat. Nonetheless, its rising acceptance has made it progressively more challenging for governments to overlook its presence. Some countries already hold the token through seized assets. Meanwhile, others are openly…
If you were trying to learn how to get other people to do what you want, you might use some of the techniques found in a book like Influence: The Power of Persuasion. Now, a preprint study out of the University of Pennsylvania suggests that those same psychological persuasion techniques can frequently “convince” some LLMs to do things that go against their system prompts.The size of the persuasion effects shown in “Call Me a Jerk: Persuading AI to Comply with Objectionable Requests” suggests that human-style psychological techniques can be surprisingly effective at “jailbreaking” some LLMs to operate outside their guardrails.…
Trump’s new secondary title for the Department of Defense signals an embrace of war as a tool for coercion.
A team of researchers from Meta Superintelligence Labs, National University of Singapore and Rice University has unveiled REFRAG (REpresentation For RAG), a decoding framework that rethinks retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) efficiency. REFRAG extends LLM context windows by 16× and achieves up to a 30.85× acceleration in time-to-first-token (TTFT) without compromising accuracy. Why is long context such a bottleneck for LLMs? The attention mechanism in large language models scales quadratically with input length. If a document is twice as long, the compute and memory cost can grow fourfold. This not only slows inference but also increases the size of the key-value (KV)…