Author: Vidya Saras

In the span of just a few years, drones have become instrumental in warfare. Conflicts in Ukraine, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh, Sudan, and elsewhere have shown how autonomous vehicles have become a quintessential part of modern combat.It’s a fact that Taiwan knows all too well. The island nation, fearing imminent invasion from China, has both the need, know-how, and industry necessary to build a robust and advanced drone program.Yet Taiwan, which has set an ambitious target of producing 180,000 drones per year by 2028, is struggling to create this industry from scratch. Last year, it produced fewer than 10,000.“Taiwan definitely has the…

Mamdani and Brad Lander prove they know how to say “no” to a lawless president and his war—while rival Andrew Cuomo stumbles. Ad Policy Zohran Mamdani attends a campaign rally in Queens.(Andrew Lichtenstein / Corbis via Getty Images) After President Trump ordered a US military assault on Iran Saturday night, the outcry from Democrats and a handful of Republicans in Washington was immediate. US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) announced, “The President’s disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers. He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us…

Redefining Job Execution with AI Agents AI agents are reshaping how jobs are performed by offering tools that execute complex, goal-directed tasks. Unlike static algorithms, these agents combine multi-step planning with software tools to handle entire workflows across various sectors, including education, law, finance, and logistics. Their integration is no longer theoretical—workers are already applying them to support a variety of professional duties. The result is a labor environment in transition, where the boundaries of human and machine collaboration are being redefined on a daily basis. Bridging the Gap Between AI Capability and Worker Preference A persistent problem in this…

Je nachdem, womit er verbunden ist, kann ein MCP-Server „ein riesiger, massiver Angriffsvektor“ sein, betont der Sicherheits-Experte. Wenn er beispielsweise zur Analyse von Protokolldaten mit einer SIEM-Plattform (Security Information and Event Monitoring) verbunden ist, könnte ein Angreifer auf diesen Server zugreifen, um Daten zu sammeln. „Wo man den MCP-Server aufstellt, ist eine wichtige Frage“, die CSOs beantworten müssen, erklärte er. „Ich denke, wie bei allen neuen Protokollen ist es noch zu früh, um es in Produktion zu nehmen“, fügte Meghu hinzu. „Ich glaube, es gibt bessere Möglichkeiten, das zu erreichen, die wir noch nicht gefunden haben.“ In diesem Zusammenhang wirft…

Bold and the Beautiful had Brooke Logan needing a nudge to figure out her newest game plan with Ridge Forrester after Nick Marone made a play for her last week on the CBS soap. For a little while there, it looked as if Brooke didn’t realize what Nick dumped in her lap, that is, until Katie Logan planted the seed for her sister. And that seed grows next week on Bold and Beautiful. Bold and the Beautiful: Brooke Logan Gets Jump Start Last week on Bold and the Beautiful, a shocker emerged for Brooke Logan (Katherine Kelly Lang), who found…

TAGAYTAY — Just recently opened, the Tagaytay CT Velodrome will be broken in with its first major international race — the Asian Cycling Federation Championships. “It was just confirmed Monday. We will host the Asian Championships next year,” said PhilCycling Chief and Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) President Abraham Tolentino during Monday’s inauguration of the country’s one and only velodrome or cycling track. Mr. Tolentino got the nod straight from Asian Cycling Confederation President Dato’ Amarjit Singh Gill, who was the guest of honor in the ribbon cutting of the venue that is the exact replica of the Velodrome Suisse in…

Elon Musk says his artificial intelligence company xAI will retrain its AI model, Grok, on a new knowledge base free of “garbage” and “uncorrected data” — by first using it to rewrite history. In an X post on Saturday, Musk said the upcoming Grok 3.5 model will have “advanced reasoning” and wanted it to be used “to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors.”He said the model would then retrain on the new knowledge set, claiming there was “far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data.”Source: Elon Musk Musk’s latest fight against…

Welcome to the fourth installment of eth2 quick update. There are a lot of moving pieces to talk about this week. Other than the heroic eth2 client development going on, these are the highlights: tldr; Differential fuzzing grant Sigma Prime has been awarded a grant to lead the differential fuzzing effort for eth2 clients. This effort is critical to the success of launching a multi-client network by aiding in catching consensus issues prior to mainnet. The act of “fuzzing” is the act of throwing many random inputs at a piece of software to see how it reacts. When fuzzing a…

Today, the government of Norway announced its plans to introduce a temporary ban on establishing new Bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining data centres. The government concluded that it was better to redirect electricity to other industries and economic sectors and that it would be better for the national interest. “The Labour Party government has a clear intention to limit the mining of cryptocurrency in Norway as much as possible,” said the Minister for Digitalization and Public Administration Karianne Tung. The ruling Labour Party has attributed the upcoming ban to the excessive electricity consumption by power-intensive Bitcoin and crypto mining operations, which…

A tweet directed at the BoDoggos team for charging a subscription fee on their trading news app has sparked an industry-wide debate on what NFT holders are entitled to receive.@Lewsiphur tweeted a screenshot from what appears to be a holder-only section of the BoDoggos Discord on June 17. In the screenshot, BoDoggos CEO and co-founder Nick O’Neill shares details on the “first version of the app”, alongside a discounted link to gain access. @Lewsiphur took issue at BoDoggos holders needing to pay for app access, whilst the BoDoggos team defended their need to cover “ongoing cost”.As this back-and-forth continued on…