Author: Vidya Saras

Friends, Out of respect for those within our own community and around us currently facing the ongoing global health crisis, our team has decided to temporarily hold scheduled Devcon announcements, first teased in our last post. In the meantime we wanted to share something else that we’ve been working on, which was intended for release alongside this year’s other material. Meet the Devcon Archive Beginning today, everyone can dive into presentations from all past Devcon events through the Devcon Archive, which will live as a permanent element of Devcon.org. With the Archive, we’ve started by gathering videos of keynotes, workshops,…

Artificial intelligence and decentralised finance will come under joint scrutiny this June at DefaiCon Istanbul, a dedicated event exploring how automated agents and DeFi protocols are intersecting across blockchain infrastructure.Scheduled for 26 June 2025, the conference will take place at the Hilton Istanbul Bomonti Hotel & Conference Center as part of this year’s Istanbul Blockchain Week and organised by EAK Digital—a leading London-based blockchain marketing and events agency.DefaiCon Istanbul will bring together software developers, researchers, investors, and company founders to examine the growing use of AI in blockchain-based systems—particularly in areas such as financial trading, protocol governance, and resource coordination.…

Multiple jurisdictions all over the world offer adequate licensing options and risk protection for both startups and established businesses. Obtaining a license for crypto activities is essential for reputability and trustworthiness. The main question is: how to choose the country that will fit your business structure and goals perfectly? Our article will answer it in as much detail as possible.  What key factors should businesses consider when selecting a jurisdiction for a crypto license in 2025? If you want to secure a crypto license and ensure the longevity of your blockchain business, you must take certain preparatory steps. The things…

Courtesy of the Cannes Film FestivalAfter years of imprisonment and travel bans in his native Iran, Jafar Panahi returns to Cannes with a furious but funny revenge thriller that takes aim at oppressive regimes and could scoop the Palme d’Or.The film opens with a long, unbroken, deceptively charming shot of a genial man (Ebrahim Azizi) and his happy, pregnant wife driving in the countryside one evening, with their playful daughter in the back seat. When the car breaks down, the husband persuades a mechanic to tinker with it, but then the mechanic’s rumpled colleague Vahid (Vahid Mobasseri) recognises a chilling…

A United Arab Emirates (UAE) academic lab today launched an artificial intelligence world model and agent, two large language models (LLMs) and a new research center in Silicon Valley as it ramps up its investment in the cutting-edge field.The UAE’s Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) revealed an AI world model called PAN, which can be used to build physically realistic simulations for testing and honing the performance of AI agents.Eric Xing, President and Professor of MBZUAI and a leading AI researcher, revealed the models and lab at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California today. The…

May 21, 2025 For all the deserved criticism of the American media, it remains one of the strongest pillars propping up what’s left of democracy in a time that’s been anything but good for the First Amendment. Ad Policy President Donald Trump speaks to the press on the South Lawn of the White House in 2018.(Jacquelyn Martin / AP Photo) This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com. It’s not a good time to be an American journalist. Or a consumer of American journalism.…

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Addressing Architectural Trade-offs in Language Models As language models scale, balancing expressivity, efficiency, and adaptability becomes increasingly challenging. Transformer architectures dominate due to their strong performance across a wide range of tasks, but they are computationally expensive—particularly for long-context scenarios—due to the quadratic complexity of self-attention. On the other hand, Structured State Space Models (SSMs) offer improved efficiency and linear scaling, yet often lack the nuanced sequence modeling required for complex language understanding. A combined architecture that leverages the strengths of both approaches is needed to support diverse applications across environments. Introducing Falcon-H1: A Hybrid Architecture The Falcon-H1 series, released…

A global strike on a malware-as-a-service giant LummaC2, also known simply as Lumma, is a sophisticated Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) sold on underground forums since 2022. It enables threat actors to steal login credentials, credit card information, cryptocurrency wallet data, and other sensitive digital assets. In the blog, Microsoft revealed that between March 16 and May 16 this year, it detected over 394,000 Windows devices globally infected by Lumma. The malware’s reach spans across industries and geographies — from critical infrastructure and education systems to financial institutions and gaming communities. “Lumma has become a go-to tool for cybercriminals and ransomware operators, including…

A blood test called a PSA can help screen men for prostate cancer but it can also lead to unnecessary treatment. miodrag ignjatovic/E+/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption miodrag ignjatovic/E+/Getty Images News that former President Joseph Biden has advanced prostate cancer has revived long-standing questions about the benefits versus the harms of a blood test that screens for the most commonly diagnosed cancer among men in the U.S. Prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, screening tests are an imperfect tool for detecting prostate cancer, doctors and public health experts say. Part of the problem is identifying and treating aggressive cancers like Biden’s…